Slides for today’s AJAX Unplugged session covering various techniques in offline AJAX can be found here: eTech_2007_AJAX_Unplugged_Henrikson.pdf (2.6 MB)
Three posts in the same day may be a Zimbra Blog record. Just had to post this. Ignoring all the buzz of Zimbra Desktop over the past 24hrs, Roland has been heads down adding calendar support to the Zimbra Lite client (JSP/HTML based for old computers, slow networks, and ancient browsers). He owes us a post on the Zimbra Lite architecture so I won’t steal his thunder. However he sent this screen shot.
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The ZCS web client recently underwent a significant amount of change in order to load Javascript code as needed, rather than loading all of it on initial login. Those changes included the development of a package system, and a lot of shuffling around of client code over the course of about two months. The results have been worth it: the client has seen its initial load time cut
roughly in half.
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Last night we launched Zimbra Desktop. Same AJAX interface you’ve been using on the web you can now take with you on a trip be it plane, train or auto. It’s even nice for those times your trusty network fails you. Today it supports Mail and Contacts, but Calendar, Documents, and other collaboration features will be coming soon.
This week at E-tech Satish will giving a keynote centered around offline webapps on Tuesday. The following day I’ll be digging in deeper to the architecture of Zimbra Desktop with this talk. Some of our arch decisions were covered in the comments of the Zimbra Offline post. As always you can comment or discuss Zimbra and our new Desktop release on the Zimbra Forums.
We just moved our blog feed to use Feedburner this morning. Depending on your feed reader you may get some duplicate posts. Think of it as a blast from the past. 
Our new feed URL is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/zimbra
A couple of buddies pointed me toward Sys-Con Media’s Top 150 Information Technology Heroes, and I have to admit it was fun (once you click past the obstructing ad anyway). While my first reaction was to want to point out omissions (see below), what’s not to like about a list that mixes Dennis Ritchie, Luca Cardelli, Edsger Dijkstra, and Charles Babbage?
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Sorry to have been dark for the last couple of months. Things have been very busy indeed for the Zimbra team, but it is gratifying to have some of our longer-term engineering efforts baring fruit: in addition to the release of 4.5 (more info here) and opening up our product management portal for your input, we have now posted the beta release of our software appliance distribution for ZCS!
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