The following post has been sitting in my drafts folder for a while and I wasn’t sure whether to publish or not. Today I decided I would, and it was after reading a very interesting article by Mike Slinn on InsideRIA. It talks about Adobe’s lack of focus on its developer community, and how a shift in startegy may mean winning the RIA market for Adobe. Read the rest of this entry »
If your site utilizes Javascript based navigation, you are in for a treat. Google is now able to craw links embedded in JavaScript onclick() events. These links will not only be followed by Google but they will also now pass both Page Rank and Anchor Text value!
What does this mean for your search results?If your site uses JavaScript links and is not optimized, then you just may see your rankings and site traffic increase in the very near future as your indexing improves.
As a result of its acquisition of Sun, Oracle now has control over Java, and, to put it bluntly, there doesn’t seem to be any shortage of people who are concerned with the situation. So a lot of folks have taken to making different recommendations about how to respond.
Dave interviewed Zend’s CEO Andi Gutmans. I particularly found this part of the interview interesting:
“Rosenberg: When you start talking about high reliability, security, and performance, it sounds like you’re working to disrupt traditional Java environments? Is my hunch correct?
I gained access to the Google App Engine for Java, early release program, and as any CFML developer would do, I tried getting a CFML server (both Railo and OpenBD) to run on it. I posted some of my experiences on twitter, unfortunately I was unsuccessful.
You may have noticed that I didn’t try running Adobe ColdFusion on there, there. I think it would be a license violation, since app engine runs on multiple servers I wouldn’t know how many licenses I would need in order to run it legally (ps - Adobe if you want to send me a couple hundred licenses, I am fine with that).
