I got myself in a small bit of trouble recently talking about open source IP ownership when I should have been talking about the cool new collaboration and mobile features in the 4.0 release of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. (Nothing like a developer coming by your cube and saying “You said what?”) While I didn’t […]
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Ajax innovation is also about the server!
I have a pet peeve about suggestions that all these exciting Web 2.0 innovations are solely realized within browser-resident Ajax/JavaScript code. For example, consider occasional inquiries regarding a desire to marry Zimbra’s sexy Ajax enduser and administrative UIs with, say, a more mature back-end messaging server. Obviously, one way to respond to such requests is […]
Right click and REST
Rolands original post about REST and its follow on suggested that we are doing some work to expose the REST URL via the UI. The 3.2 beta release that we posted last week has some of it exposed. For example, one could right click on any folder in the contacts, calendar or documents application (more […]
OSCON AJAX Slides
A few people have asked for my slides from OSCON 2006. You can get them here: Ajax Optimization Techniques (PPT 3meg) Ajax Optimization Techniques (PDF 4.1meg)
Zimbra Mobile
Been having so much fun around here for the last 4 months with mobile devices and couldn’t wait for 3.2 beta 2 to hit the site so we can show it off. Here are some of the phones that work natively with the Zimbra backend. When we, at Zimbra, talk about natively we are talking […]
Ajax Optimization Techniques: OSCON 2006
Earlier this year I wrote about some of the Ajax Optimization Techniques we use with Zimbra to make it perform for our users. We continue to evolve the techniques we use and are always measuring the improvements. While this will be the topic of some future blog entries those of you in Portland this week […]