Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Java things on the All Consuming Web 2.0, AJAX, social website
I have started tagging books about Java I have read and/or own over at All Consuming this evening.
If you trust people tagging things java on All Consuming:
Some of the books are reviewed on the site, which is actually a pretty cool website in its own right.
It is a full-blown, Web 2.0, AJAX-enabled, social software website. How is that for being
Anyway, you will find lots of books, movies, food/drink, and music on the site.
Many of the book items on All Consuming have a hyperlink to Amazon. Mostly I use that for reference, to get more details. You can order it you want, of course - but you certainly do not have to buy it.
The nice thing about this site is you can catalog your readings as you do them - and share that with peers in realtime. It helps if you write reviews or at least comment on the books you are reading. Your name and pic still appear next to it, even if you are just
So either way, people will start to discover you might be a bit of a savant on particular subjects. You, in turn, might meet some other people who share your love for a particular kind of book, music, or whatever.
If you are a Java programmer, there are a couple good reasons to visit the site right there.
One reason is not that the site is programmed in Java - because it is not. The whole site is written in Ruby, using that Ruby on Rails framework you have no doubt heard of.
Ah, but there is a third reason to visit the site. You can see that cool AJAX user interface you have been reading about in use on the site. In fact, you can use it.
The site is free. And AJAX is AJAX. So you will get some useful experience out of just visiting the site, signing up, and using it for a while to record some stuff you consume.
If you trust people tagging things java on All Consuming:
Items tagged java
Some of the books are reviewed on the site, which is actually a pretty cool website in its own right.
It is a full-blown, Web 2.0, AJAX-enabled, social software website. How is that for being
buzzword compliant?
Anyway, you will find lots of books, movies, food/drink, and music on the site.
Many of the book items on All Consuming have a hyperlink to Amazon. Mostly I use that for reference, to get more details. You can order it you want, of course - but you certainly do not have to buy it.
The nice thing about this site is you can catalog your readings as you do them - and share that with peers in realtime. It helps if you write reviews or at least comment on the books you are reading. Your name and pic still appear next to it, even if you are just
consumingor
have consumedit.
So either way, people will start to discover you might be a bit of a savant on particular subjects. You, in turn, might meet some other people who share your love for a particular kind of book, music, or whatever.
If you are a Java programmer, there are a couple good reasons to visit the site right there.
One reason is not that the site is programmed in Java - because it is not. The whole site is written in Ruby, using that Ruby on Rails framework you have no doubt heard of.
Ah, but there is a third reason to visit the site. You can see that cool AJAX user interface you have been reading about in use on the site. In fact, you can use it.
The site is free. And AJAX is AJAX. So you will get some useful experience out of just visiting the site, signing up, and using it for a while to record some stuff you consume.
