Web 2.0 for Practitioners

Web 2.0 has been a buzzword ever since software engineers started connecting different applications and data on the Internet. What are the most promising technologies for applying Web 2.0 in your IT? What tools go beyond gimmicks to help professional developers? Authors Nicolas Serrano and Jose Manuel Torres introduce the major open technologies and show how to integrate them in a professional application. Needless to say, we can't dive into all the interesting details, such as security or performance engineering. We'll have to leave those for later columns.