When you have this many irons in the fire, you sometimes fall behind on writing blog entries. In addition to extending our framework, we are also working on several proof-of-concept applications that use RSS as the core. Some of them you will have seen before but now you will see them done with an emphasis on usability and performance. The first test application, which as of now is unnamed, will be released as opensource. Yes, that is correct, opensource. I firmly believe in giving back to the programming community at large and this will be the first step. Some of the subcomponents of the release will be JavaScript objects that do Ajax, a browser based event mechanism and a server side mechanism that can send messages to the browser asynchronously. That is all I can say for now but I will be posting more when we release a fully functional demo. Yup, no piecemeal releases but a big release that should (crosses fingers) be stable and cross platform ready. Each of the demo pieces will also demonstrate our concept of FRIA (Feature Rich Internet Applications) and will be devoid of special effects for the sake of effects and will focus on usability and diverse control sets. As an FYI, I will not just regurgitate someone else's thoughts and I don't fill my blog with links to other peoples original thoughts. That just isn't my style. So please be patient because every now and then I am known to say something worthwhile.

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