classical geek

Another post about JavaScript and HTTP? Are you kidding? I’ve just finished writing an entire book on that stuff. Today, I’m turning away from the hi-tech world, to have a look at Homer’s epic poem ‘The Iliad’. Or so I thought. Maybe I just haven’t been getting enough sleep lately, but when I picked it […]

While testing out some code for the book a few days ago, I came across an interesting problem. I’ll share it hrere, in the hope of sparing a few other Ajax developers from the confusion that I was experiencing.
The code that I was testing performed a client-side XSLT transformation, using XmlHTTPRequest to grab the XML […]

It’s a truism to say that there’s a food chain in software development, whereby a few highly-skilled developers at the level above create components and frameworks for use by the larger, less-skilled mases in the layer below. A small handful build operating systems, on top of which are built virtual machines and interpreters. On top […]

Joe Walker of DWR fame has written an interesting piece on Ajax Architecture here, questioning how the existing round of web frameworks measure up to Ajax. He describes the extreme case in which most processing logic is moved into the Javascript code, and the server is relegated to providing data feeds.
It’s a topic that I’ve […]