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Coach Wei
Coach Wei is the Founder and Chairman of Nexaweb (www.nexaweb.com), developers of the leading software platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 and AJAX applications. Previously, he played a key role at EMC Corporation in the development of a new generation of storage network management software. Wei has his master's degree from MIT, holds several patents, is the author of several technology publications including JDJ, Web 2.0 Journal, and AJAXWorld Magazine, and is an industry advocate for the proliferation of open standards. |
Coach Wei's "Direct From
Web 2.0" Blog: The
Converging Developer
Community By Coach Wei At the AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo and
OpenAjax Alliance back to
back meetings in Santa
Clara, CA this week, it
has been hard not to
think about the developer
community and how Web 2.0
is impacting it today. Oct. 7, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 41,463 Replies: 3 | Achieving Business and IT
Agility with Enterprise
Web 2.0 By Coach Wei  Web 2.0 technologies
promise to turn the
Internet into a true
application platform,
featuring robust
client-side logic and
rich interfaces that put
users back in control of
application flow. For the
enterprise IT community,
achieving the aims of
Web 2.0 requires ... Oct. 1, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 18,945 | AJAX: "XML for
Client-Side Computing" By Coach Wei XML is a simple, flexible
text format initially
designed for large-scale
electronic publishing. It
is flexible, open, and
human-readable, and can
be learned easily. XML
can also be generated,
parsed, analyzed, and
transformed easily. It's
no wonder that XML has
be... Sep. 25, 2006 08:45 AM Reads: 47,470 Replies: 11 | Web 2.0 Is Hot in
Japan...But Nobody Knows
MySpace By Coach Wei  Japan knows web 2.0 -
probably better than us
in US. But very few
people in Japan have
heard of or paid
attention to MySpace.
Their attention is on
Mixi, the biggest social
networking site in Japan. Sep. 23, 2006 10:30 PM Reads: 25,670 Replies: 5 | OpenAjax is Officially
Open Now By Coach Wei I am excited that
OpenAjax Alliance is
officially open now. Over
the last months months,
we have worked very hard
and have made some
incredible progress,
depsite the heterogeneous
nature of many different
members representing
different viewpoints. One
person that ... Sep. 20, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 15,297 Replies: 8 | AJAX, Java, Flash, and
.NET By Coach Wei  Enterprise Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs) are
the next evolution of
business application
development. There are
four different approaches
to RIA development -
AJAX, Java, Flash, and
.NET - and many different
RIA solutions available
today. This article
answers t... Sep. 19, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 39,039 Replies: 7 | Coach Wei's "Direct From
Web 2.0" Blog: Web 2.0
– the State of
Confusion? By Coach Wei  After spending the last
12-18 months involved in
a lot of 'Web 2.0'
conversations and reading
a lot of 'Web 2.0'
materials, I am confused.
Starting from some
people's question about
whether Web 2.0 exists,
whether/how Web 2.0
stories such as MySpace/G
oogle/YouTube... Sep. 12, 2006 11:15 PM Reads: 20,889 Replies: 2 | AJAX Pioneer Coach Wei to
Present at AJAX World By Coach Wei The AJAX model dominates
headlines, but developing
with JavaScript requires
considerable developer
skills, especially when
migrating existing
client/server
applications to the Web.
A new wave of software
infrastructure providers
is leveraging Java
expertise to cre... Sep. 10, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 11,304 Replies: 6 | What Does Web 2.0 Mean to
Enterprises? By Coach Wei In 'Every Organization
Needs a Web 2.0 Story,' I
outlined some of the
business reasons why Web
2.0 is important for
organizations today. I
also promised to further
explain what exactly Web
2.0 can do for
enterprises in future
posts. This morning I had
the pleasure... Aug. 12, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 17,609 Replies: 4 | Is Enterprise Software
Dead? By Coach Wei Despite the common wisdom
that VCs are stupid (yes,
some of them are. I
maintain a personal list
of VCs who I would advise
companies to stay away
from), I actually think
quite a few of them are
really smart and I have
always learned a lot from
conversations with the... Aug. 4, 2006 05:30 PM Reads: 17,194 Replies: 3 | Every Organization Should
Have A Web 2.0 Story By Coach Wei Duh! Isn't it obvious
that every organization
should have a Web 2.0
story? I know it is
obvious to us techies.
But the more I talk to
the business community
(including technology
leaders), the more I
realize that Web 2.0 is
not obvious to them at
all. A lot of peo... Jul. 29, 2006 06:15 AM Reads: 16,522 Replies: 3 | Two Key Challenges for
Ajax Adoption that We
Have Ignored By Coach Wei There are some fairly big
issues with Ajax and I am
puzzled. I think the Ajax
community need to pay
more attention here in
order for Ajax to be
really adopted. Before I
get into the negatives
about Ajax, let me
clarify my position about
Ajax first. Jul. 11, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 26,179 Replies: 24 | Jonathan Schwartz Doesn't
Matter? By Coach Wei Yes, Sun has been lost
for the last few years.
They don't seem to
acknowledge that the
Sparc/Solaris combo are
falling into niche
markets (not mainstream).
On the other side, they
are not making enough
progress on software and
service. Sun has quite a
few strategi... Jun. 30, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 11,122 Replies: 1 | Apache XAP - The New
Approach to AJAX By Coach Wei  XAP represents a new way
of developing, deploying
and maintaining AJAX
applications. It uses a
declaratiave syntax (XAL,
http://www.openxal.org/)
for describing UI, Data,
Data Binding - so that
the only Javascript code
that needs to be written
is business logic.
E... Jun. 29, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 15,387 Replies: 3 | AJAX, Java, Flash, and
.NET By Coach Wei  Enterprise Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs) are
the next evolution of
business application
development. There are
four different approaches
to RIA development -
AJAX, Java, Flash, and
.NET - and many different
RIA solutions available
today. This article
answers t... Jun. 8, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 38,905 Replies: 4 | Java or .NET? XML
Rich-Client AJAX
Technology Brings
Zero-Install Rich Client
To Java By Coach Wei  Which platform to use
Java or .NET? Developers
ask this question all the
time. Java has been
widely adopted because of
its overwhelming benefits
on the server side, but
Java has less to offer on
the client side. .NET has
made inroads into the
enterprise by leveragin... Feb. 22, 2006 08:45 PM Reads: 74,866 Replies: 29 | A New Approach to AJAX:
Asynchronous Java + XML By Coach Wei The AJAX model dominates
headlines, but developing
with JavaScript requires
considerable developer
skills, especially when
migrating existing
client/server
applications to the Web.
A new wave of software
infrastructure providers
is leveraging Java
expertise to cre... Feb. 21, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 14,909 | Why Web Applications Can
be Problematic and
Unreliable By Coach Wei It's no surprise that the
common perception is that
Web applications are
unreliable and
problematic. Users often
experience '404,'
'resource unavailable,'
and 'network unavailable'
errors or even a
mysterious application
error telling them to
'retry the applicatio... Dec. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 26,043 Replies: 6 | Developing Zero-Install
Rich Internet
Applications Using XML By Coach Wei The session describes
Rich Internet
Applications (yet with
zero client footprint)
using J2EE and XML, an
emerging architecture
that offers the best of
both worlds. The session
would initially discuss
what are Rich Internet
Applications, the
technology landscape, a... Feb. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,230 |
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