Web Programming & Technologies

I wanted to post a follow up to Jim Daley's talk on Tuesday. Obviously it was very informative and very technical. Here are the top five topics along with an resource to help explain them (in case I ask you on a quiz). Again, if you were confused, the links below will help you!

AJAX
Article: http://webdesign.about.com/od/ajax/a/aa101705.htm
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJXLRLDWjn4

XML
Article: http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_whatis.asp
Article: http://www.textuality.com/xml/

API
Article: http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/apis-who-what-why-how/
Video: http://blip.tv/file/399231/

MashUP
Article: http://webtrends.about.com/od/webmashups/a/what-is-mashup.htm
Video: http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-152729.html

SQL
Article: http://cplus.about.com/od/thebusinessofsoftware/a/whatissql.htm
Demo: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_intro.asp

Team Project Examples

So I stared reading over your drafts and I was pretty disappointed that most of you didn't take advantage of the time given and opportunity for me to review it (actually one group is almost done). As we get closer to the due date for our Team Projects I thought it would be a good idea to provide you with a couple above average team projects from last year (These were B+/A- projects).

Smart Clothing

RFID

Wearable Computers

Wireless Consumer Marketplace

Research In Motion's (RIM) media-rich BlackBerry smartphones, such as the Pearl, Curve, Storm and Bold models, compete with Apple's iPhone for retail customers. RIM has pushed aggressively to diversify its user base beyond executives, lawyers, politicians and other professionals who use BlackBerrys to send wireless e-mail.

RIM opens software store for BlackBerry
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5300R920090401

Will this new store allow Blackberry to cut over to the broader consumer marketplace (the iPhone space)?