Who has code completion, CSS classes browser, Javascript function browser, PHP code browser, HTML elements browser, all together in a single interface that covers this multiple array of features in a perfectly usable environment  ?  As far as I’m concerned, the battle between Aptana and Dreamweaver is over : the eclipse extension known as Aptana Studio Community Edition performs incredibly well for me after a few months of learning which plugins are best and where different perspectives stand. The fact that Ajax development is covered does a lot : check out Spket extension, I have tested it in Aptana and it does a great job completing code with available  variables and methods from EXTJS . To be faire, Spket is available for Dreamweaver too.

Opensource ecommerce is going fast forward. After the might Magento, I have had the pleasure to test drive - and install in production environment - Prsetashop, a simpler alternative, that serves ecommerce with a nice ajax animated shopping cart and various interesting features.

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Ever been through the nightmare of planning to unify all data sources your business is dealing with ? Ever thought of what could happen to sensitive data when you’re travelling all around the world, physically or virtually, aggregating experience and datasources from all over the place  ? Seems that web based content and data managment is a must these days, and it pays to look at ajax based software from California based Informatica, which develops its application on the basis of SmartClient library. SmartClient library is part commercial, part GPL  : you can download client side libraries and develop your own modules to serve data to JSON, XML, or whatever data format you can handle to provide. PowerCenter, that’s the name you want to remember when searching for data unification and centralization, accessible anywhere. Migration, synchronisation, warehousing are common tasks accomplished by PowerCenter Enterprise Platform, for which the AJAX based client side we could experience is only the visible part of the infrastructure iceberg it aims to support.

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