New journals from Sys-Con Media and Thomas Communications.Sys-Con Media (Montvale, NJ), an internet and i-technology publisher, has begun the production of four new journal titles, including "Web 2.0 Journal," "Ajax Developer's Journal," "Enterprise Open Source Magazine" and "Eclipse Developer's Journal." All four titles will be published monthly. The mission of "Eclipse Developer's Journal" is to educate users of Eclipse and developers building plug-ins or Rich Client Platform A Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a piece of software consisting of the following components:
Unix manual page: rcp(1). ) applications. It is being designed as a source of news and information on what is happening in the Eclipse "ecosystem" and covers "anything Eclipse-related," Sys-Con said, such as Java Developer tools, RCP, Eclipse Modeling Framework Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is an Eclipse-based modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. , related commercial plug-ins, projects based on Eclipse 3.1, and the Eclipse open source development environment. An annual subscription costs $39. "Ajax Developer's Journal" is targeted to professionals in the Ajax community and provides information on industry news and developments, tutorials, Ajax examples, information on Ajax scripts, support data and web development documentation. Coverage of Ajax, a rich internet application See RIA and rich client. platform built on existing web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. , also includes new product development, rich media internet applications, ongoing Ajax development news, patents, and corporate developments. "Web 2.0 Journal" is targeted to developers, IT managers and vendors and covers the adaptation of existing Web software for new applications. Sys-Con said the journal covers Web functionality and data now available, including scalability and the world of read-write Web, tagging, wikis, mash-ups, podcasts, advertising and image-sharing. Editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe noted that "writing software from scratch will continue to go away because it's just too easy to wire things together now." Finally, Sys-Con and Thomas Communications, Inc. (Dallas, TX) have both launched open source titles. "Enterprise Open Source Journal Enterprise Open Source Journal (or EOSJ) is a computing magazine self-published online magazine. It is published every 2 months in PDF format and covers the topic of open-source software. ," from Thomas, and "Enterprise Open Source Magazine," from Sys-Con, are both targeted to CIOs, IT managers and staff and cover eneterprise-wide open source, open standards and open systems. Content includes coverage of new computing models, CRM, vendors, open source content management systems, configuration management and e-mail infrastructure, among others. The Thomas title has a controlled circulation while the Sys-Con title has a paid circulation. |
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