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Daly Communications is proud to celebrate its fifth year in business by donating its services to Prevention Network. Prevention Network is a not-for-profit agency that has been educating, training, and providing prevention services and education pertaining to substance use, abuse, and addictions to the Central New York community since 1949. Daly Communications plans to donate a complete website redesign of Prevention Network’s current site as well as site optimization to help them become more visible on the web among the local community and help increase donations for the cause.

Daly Communications was established in September of 2003 by Dave Daly as a technical writing firm. The company has expanded its service offering over the past five years to include web development and design, IT services, and marketing communications and has experienced substantial growth each year since its inception. “The majority of our customers are Central New York businesses and we wanted to give back to the community,” says Dave Daly, President of Daly Communications Group. “Prevention Network has done a great deal of good for CNY and donating our services to help them is the perfect way to celebrate our 5th year milestone.”

“What a wonderful gift this is to the agency and benefit to CNY,” says Brad Finn, Executive Director of Prevention Network. Work on the new site will begin in the next few weeks and should be unveiled by 2009. If you’d like to make a donation to Prevention Network or learn more about what they’ve done for the community, check out their website.

Daly Communications Group (daly-communications.com) is a web development, technical writing, and marketing communications firm located in Manlius, NY. Our staff has over 100 years of combined experience in the industry and is continuing to expand and grow its extensive list of clients locally and nationally.

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Sun Microsystems has announced the preview version of the next major release of its GlassFish application server, which, among other things, provides a preview of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6.

“The goal after version 2 was to, with version 3, build a modular architecture,” Hinz said. “We wanted to build an application container so you could do everything from the Web tier to mission critical” applications, he said. Hinz said the v3 prelude could be used in production.

Sun’s GlassFish open-source application server has more than 14 million downloads since its first release in May 2005, more than 225,000 registrations in 2008 and hundreds of production deployments around the globe , Sun officials said. And Hinz said features such as ease of installation and management, modularity and extensibility and enhanced JRuby support enable GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude empower developers to easily scale their projects from small Web-tier deployments to large-scale mission critical architectures.

“GlassFish is doing surprisingly well. It’s picking up some solid reviews from ISVs, and Sun continues to invest in performance and usability,” said James Governor, an analyst with RedMonk LLC. “Downloads are certainly nicely on the up tick,” he added. “For me it’s also a big deal that GlassFish v3 prelude is now clearly on the OSGi train, which improves system modularity and standards-support.”

Ari Zilka, chief technology officer at Terracotta, said, “While we have always had respect for GlassFish and they have worked with us since the day we open sourced, every release, we are doing more and more with GlassFish. Why is this? Users are telling us that GlassFish is especially easy to manage. It is winning bake-offs, especially against very expensive offerings from Oracle and IBM. One customer in online gaming said that GlassFish is superior to WebLogic, promptly demanded production support for Terracotta underneath GlassFish 2 and now 3, all the way into production. They have not looked back.”

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Announced the immediate availability and support of the Sun GlassFish(TM) Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, a lightweight Web application server that is based on a modular OSGi architecture. Sun is also providing a preview of features that will be available in the upcoming Java(TM) Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE).

GlassFish is one of the leading open source application servers in the industry today with more than 14 million downloads since its first release in May 2005, more than 225,000 registrations in 2008 and hundreds of production deployments around the globe. With features such as: ease of installation and management, modularity and extensibility and enhanced JRuby support, GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude allows developers to easily scale their projects from small Web-tier deployments to large scale mission critical architectures, simplify complex development and production tasks and increase productivity.

“GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude is a great example of the innovations that a dynamic, open source community can create as well as an interesting view into the future of Web application development and production environments,” said Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of engineering, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. “This release, which is fully supported by Sun and targeted at Web tier production environments, will be the basis for the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 a complete application server based on the OSGi standard and the upcoming Java EE 6 platform.”

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For AJAX users in the know, Ajaxian.com is near the top of the list of helpful sites on the cutting edge. Perhaps that’s why the Mozilla Foundation has recruited Ajaxian co-founders Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith to spearhead the next generation of Mozilla Web development tools.

In a recent statement to SD Times, Almaer and Galbraith outlined possible areas of focus for the new Mozilla developer tools lab. Many of them center on propagating and fostering support for open Web standards.

The pair began by describing the current woes of Web developers: “Because the open Web platform consists of a diverse ecosystem of browsers from different companies and organizations, developers are quite often forced to correlate a variety of inconsistent documentation from many sources in order to answer basic questions.

Another problem, according to Almaer and Galbraith, is the relatively steep learning curve associated with open Web standards. “The core strength of the open Web is its very openness, the ability of developers worldwide to jump in and contribute,” they wrote. “Yet we feel the barriers to participation are often significant. Each open-source project works differently, and it’s often not clear how newcomers can contribute code that is eventually accepted.”

Despite the pair’s confidence that new tools can address those problems, when and how such tools will surface remain to be seen. “While at this stage we haven’t narrowed our focus to any specific solutions to these problems, these are the issues that most loom on our radar,” wrote Almaer and Galbraith. “We’re anxious to talk to Web developers to get more of their perspective too.

“The browsers are picking up a lot of momentum and adding a lot of new functionality to the Web these days. Now it is time for the tools to catch up.”

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South Florida Web Design firm, New Media Technology, introduces professional and affordable web design solutions for small businesses. The firm is now offering unique all-inclusive website design packages that will include business, internet marketing and search engine optimization consultation. NMT utilizes a multi-faceted approach to its custom website design projects by assessing its client’s competition as well as their industry.

Today’s small businesses need a strong web presence in order to attract the growing clientele who utilize the internet for all of their research and commerce needs. NMT’s web development team has adopted a unique strategy to produce optimum results for even its most simplistic website designs.

The company’s development strategy is coordinated by CEO and lead web developer Jason Rhodes. Rhodes has over ten years experience in web development and search engine optimization with a strong focus on business development. He has built three highly successful online businesses in the moving and storage, real estate and luxury yachting industries from the ground up. He has also consulted for numerous companies from small startups to Fortune 500’s.

Jason Rhodes commented on what distinguishes New Media Technology’s web design services from other web design firms, “Our business approach is what makes us stand out. Prior to designing any website, we assess our client’s industry and competition in addition to their own business model. This helps us to build out a website that is designed to make their company a leader within their industry.”

While NMT is seeking to build affordable websites for small businesses in Florida, they will not compromise quality. Each site will include website content creation, captivating graphics design, clean layout for easy navigation, a user friendly content management system and will be optimized for a highly targeted search term to naturally boost search engine rankings.

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