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AJAX — a one year anniversary

By Dick Weisinger

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary since Jesse James Garrett at Adaptive Paths first coined the term AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).  It was a term he created to describe some of the high-profile highly-interactive Javascript browser applications, like Google‘s…

Web site scanning for vulnerabilities

By Dick Weisinger

By one estimate more than 50-60% of all Web applications and web sites contain some critical vulnerability that can be easily compromised. Using SSL, firewalls and locked-down servers can lead to a sense of security, but none of these things…

Engineering Hybrid Documents

By Dick Weisinger

The last entry discussed CAD file viewers that enable any user to view the CAD model data created from applications in the original file format. Another twist when working with CAD documents is that not only is the underlying data…

Handling AutoCAD content

By Dick Weisinger

Content comes in many formats and sizes.  And no matter what the content, there is always the desire to be able to share that information. In our dealings at Formtek with facilities documents and engineering documents from Aerospace, Automotive and…

Metadata Retooled

By Dick Weisinger

Government Computer News is touting 2006 as the year for metadata  within government IT. They see collaboration and data interchange as two forces driving the demand. It’s not that metadata is something that’s new.  The concept of assigning data to…