The future of Web 3.0

Thursday, July 31, 2008

People say that the future of the Internet are mashups. Mashups are applications that are made using different web applications. Mashups make use of the Internet as a big personal database. Using mashups, developers can come up with more robust, more personalized and more effective applications.

There are several mashup makers available like Kapow, Dapper, Yahoo! Pipes, Convertigo, Intel Mash Maker and Microsoft Popfly. These applications are unique to their own respects. I did some research about these applications and here is a little review to help you guys ( especially those who are just starting to play with mashups ): (more…)

Download and Install ANT 1.7

Friday, July 11, 2008

Download ANT( Another Neat Tool ) from the official site: The Apache Ant Project.

For Windows and OS/2:

• Assume that Ant is extracted in C:\ant\ 
• Open the command line and set up the environment.
• set ANT_HOME=c:\ant
• set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk-1.5.0.05
• set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

For Linux/Unix ( bash )

• Assume that Ant is extracted in /usr/local/ant
• Open the bash terminal and set up the environment
• export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
• export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-1.5.0.05
• export PATH=${PATH};${ANT_HOME}/bin

For Linux/Unix ( csh )

• Assume that Ant is extracted in /usr/local/ant
• Open the bash terminal and set up the environment
• setenv ANT_HOME /usr/local/ant
• setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0.05
• set path=( $path $ANT_HOME/bin)