Everyone is using Web 2.0 features in web applications these days. Now there is another toolkit to enable more convenient use of Web 2.0 capabilities just like the big boys.

Google announced it has put its Web Toolkit into open source. This is yet another framework you can consider using – see my previous post about other open source Web 2.0 frameworks here.

Most offshore companies offering web application development services are well versed in the use of AJAX and other Web 2.0 features. Using an offshore team to develop a Web 2.0 web application or SaaS is a safe choice.

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Of course you can save money offshoring your software development. If you are adding Web 2.0 capabilities to your web applications then you can enhance the productivity of your offshore programming team with a framework for Web 2.0 development.

DevX just published this roundup of the Web 2.0 frameworks and tools now available.

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Hey, what happened to Web 2.0? The MIT Technology Review writes about what comes after Web 2.0, referring to some old technology ideas that may someday help us use the web more effectively. They include Semantic Web ideas like Resource Description Framework – RDF and the Friend of a Friend or FOAF project.

This is really old stuff! The seminal Semantic Web article was published in Scientific American in May of 2001, co-authored by none-other than Tim Berners-Lee that started this whole world-wide web thing back in the early 1990s.

Maybe all these old Semantic Web technologies need is a new moniker like Web 3.0 to launch them into widespread use and success! After all, that’s how Web 2.0 came about after Jesse James Garrett’s article was published in February of 2005. He coined the acronym AJAX for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” that uses a feature of the JavaScript language that was in existence since 1998.

Actually, the MIT article admits that Web 3.0 is still a ways off yet. That’s good because you are probably still busy upgrading your applications to use Web 2.0 features.

Are you?

Or are you innovating with Semantic Web technology now? Is outsourcing of Semantic Web development something you would like to do?

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Does a very efficient but difficult to learn computer language like C++ have a future? In an interesting interview of Bjarne Stroustrup by MIT Technology Review he says yes, of course.

According to Stroustrup, who created C++ at Bell Labs in the 1980s, “the solution is not to dumb down the programming languages but to use a variety of programming languages and educate more experts. There has to be languages for those experts to use–and C++ is one of those languages.”

It’s silly to think that C++ will go away anytime soon. There are too many important applications and devices that are programmed with C++.

If C++ is the right language for your application then the trick is finding the experts you need to development your software. That can be tough in many parts of the U.S.

But many experts do exist in several parts of the world. The highest concentration of C++ talent exists in Eastern Europe and Russia.

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A survey in early 2006 says there is shortage of embedded software engineers. Respondents also said outsourcing embedded software development is the key to overcoming the problem.

But outsource to whom?

Another survey conclusion is that “identifying and contracting with high-quality outsourcing partners is the most serious human-resource management issue that the executives expect to face during the next three years.”

Embedded software is a very broad area from microcontrollers to full computer processors and from microkernels to embedded Windows XP (XPe). Outsourcing vendors will have to specialize to win business.

If you are considering outsourcing of your embedded software development, then will you outsource the hardware design and development too? Where do you draw the line between what you can outsource and what you need to keep in-house?

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