This is the second post in a series of five weekly articles on issues related to Kynetx application development in a server-centric world. All developers are familiar with the acronym "CRUD" which stands for "create, read, update, and delete." Traditional development projects involve putting in place the components necessary to accomplish these four tasks. You may [...]

The first Web service that Amazon put up, years ago, was the ECommerce API that allowed API access to Amazon's product information. That API has gone through several name changes and is now called the Product Advertising API. Thousands of people have used this API to add data about products--and the opportunity to [...]

Doc Searls uses the term "sewage pump" (I'm paraphrasing) to describe the modern advertising-based economy. Modern society has created the most efficient machine imaginable to push stuff at people whether they want it or not. I gave an example in this blog post about Novatel: they're treating Twitter as a way to [...]

This is the first post in a series of five weekly articles on issues related to Kynetx application development in a server-centric world. Kynetx is on the forefront of creating the app-driven purpose-centric web. As we talk to people about our platform I have discovered that there are two main categories of Internet users: Category 1: Placers- [...]

-Developer Conference to Show Applications that Span Multiple Sites, in Support of the New “Client-Side” Web- February 24, 2010, SALT LAKE CITY — Jon Udell author, information architect and new media innovator, will headline the Kynetx Impact Conference in Salt Lake City April 27-28, 2010. Udell will review the Net's original peer-to-peer architecture, and explore why it matters more than ever. The [...]

Date: 02/23/2010 Start Time: 1740 MST Stop Time: 1745 MST Duration: 00:00:05 (DD:hh:mm) Severity: Sev1 - Platform Down Incident Summary: The KNS platform experienced a service interruption at 1740 MST, which lasted for a five (5) minute period. This outage was attributed to a memory starvation issue on the master load balancer in the load balancing cluster, which caused a [...]

The latest build of the Kynetx Rule Language (KRL) provides a significant upgrade in capability with the addition of functions. We've also added some new array operators that take advantage of functions to make using arrays easier. KRL supports functions as first-class objects in the expression language. KRL supports only anonymous functions, but [...]

In anticipation of additional functionality in KNS, it has been decided to require that all predicates must preceded by their name space. As of build 419, non-qualified names in predicate positions (like search_engine_referer()) will be treated as functions and will not work as expected. From this point forward, you must only use qualified (e.g. namespaced) functions [...]

Just a Few Months Old, Kynetx Developer Program Spawning a New Generation of Context-Aware Apps LEHI, Utah, January 22, 2010--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kynetx is leading the client-side revolution with its unparalleled development platform and program. At the heart of the platform is a rules-based language that allows developers to build entirely new web experiences that are cross-site, cross-platform [...]

The latest build (Build 391) of the Kynetx Rule Language (KRL) includes support for accessing Twitter data intrinsically within the language. Integrating interesting data with KRL is an important part of what makes the language so useful for building cross-site applications that mash-up data and user interactions. But what's really interesting about this [...]