Hatem @ AJAX Magazine wrote a very good primer on Morfik architecture — a good read for anyone.

Dan Webb has some important thoughts about the Flash v.s. Ajax debate and the comments on his site and on the Ajaxian site are also thought provoking.

Indeed it is anyone’s guess how WPF/E, Flash/Flex/OpenLaszlo, AJAX (Backbase, YUI, Dojo, Prototype, Qooxdoo,…), GWT, Eclipse/RAP and Morfik will mature but this year will be definitely very interesting for web application development!

Code Gear just announced two new products: Delphi 2007 for Win32 and Delphi for PHP.

A quick rundown on each:

• Delphi 2007 for Win32 is the latest release of good old Delphi with improved Vista and AJAX support (in the form of VCL for AJAX).
• Delphi for PHP is a RAD IDE and component set for PHP developers. This may be a BIG hit: it packs a powerful IDE with an architecture/component framework called VCL for PHP and adds on top of that professional debugging support and deployment wizardry. I will definitely have more first-hand news about this baby in the coming weeks.

It should be noted that Delphi for PHP is not strictly a CodeGear/Borland internal project, it is originated from qadram’s qstudio, but now it is developed together by the two companies. VCL for PHP used to be called WCL and as far as I see will remain open source.

You can read more here (a very good blog, BTW).

If you seem a little bewildered by all the Delphi for Xxxx (e.g. Delphi for PHP has nothing to do with Object Pascal) and VCL for Yyyy tags, don’t feel lost! It is just POBC (plain old brand capitalization) .

While I am at it PasWiki seems to be interesting, too: it is a simple Wiki engine written in “Modern Pascal”. The angle I am keen to learn more about is its performance claims, an important subject and an area where Morfik should shine.

Ed has a wonderful site listing some of the most popular Web 2.0 games offered on the web, and also a Top 10 List.

Fortunately, Pong and Sweeper have made onto the list, but they need some promoting to get into the top ten, so do not hesitate!

Ed has some good ideas on Pong and Sweeper features that I should add ASAP.

Richard MacManus has an interesting article about “WebOS market review” on his blog on ZDNet. Beyond GoogleOS he mentions several WebOS initiatives (XIN, YouOS, EyeOS, Orca, Goowy, Fold). To my surprise Morfik is not in the list! His article has also been Slashdotted and the comments on both sites are interesting:  most readers are confused about what WebOS is at all and whether it has any future. This is quite normal as we are at the very begining of the WebOS era but also indicates that some educational efforts should be in order form the WebOS vendor companies and from us “visionaries” :-). And of course, one or two killer apps that would establish the market and would make front page news…

Due to no coincidence I became aware of another blog just arond the globe that seems to be devoted to Web 2.0 and fond of Morfik too. Mauricio Longo’s New IT Trends already discussed some very current topics and his style (being a technical writer) is very good. Wholeheartedly recommended.