Development, Eclipse, Google, Web and other forecasts

• While everybody tried to predict what will happen this year, here is stuff that won’t happen in 2008.
• It is hard to define what exacly an architecture actually is. Here are some ideas.
• Eclipse M4 going online? RAP being wrong, GWT being right?
• How to trick user to get him into feeling that a long operation takes shorter by hacking progress bar.
• Firefox 3D enabled. Well, I suppose we’ll be running Google Earth within browser soon. I wonder if Yahoo will come with its own Yahoo Earth? And ehem, will Microsoft Virtual Earth run in Firefox, Opera and Safari, or only in IE? Hehe..
• A quick tour through a few of google APIs you should learn about.
• 3 Levels of web service integration. Quick analysis of intagration models: Facebook, Amazon, Open Social, Google App Engine. What is the web becoming like?
• Another bird-eye look on web development history. We witnessed Mass automation, Mass connectivity and now we enetered Mass integration.
• Yahoo’s MyBlogLog API, embrace your users. And the Significance of it.
• Java going Real Time
• Google App Engine wasn’t the first one to provide highly interated hosting service. Aside from Amazon S3, there’s Heroku that allows you to develop and run Rails Apps directly on the host! File Browser, Code Editors and many convenience tools avaiable in the SaaS paradigm.
• AppJet is like Heroku but you can develop serverside stuff in JavaScript.
• An indepth look at Google App Engine. Emphasizes its distinctness from typical development enviroment. And another one worth reading.
• Windows collapsing under its own weight?
• Bjarne Stroustrup on the Evolution of Languages. Talks about Language Trends, Methodology and Best Practices, the Future and a concept of IDE as a kind of.. a language.