classical geek

I came across two little utilities today that have made my life easier (or, at least, the bits of my life spent in front of a JavaScript debugger!).
First, thanks to km0tion for his mozXPath scripts, that make porting IE-only XML code to run under Firefox that much easier.
Secondly, Firefox 1.5’s JS console now reports CSS […]

Final leg of the Seminar now. I missed most of the Tibco/GI talk, while my laptop was being fitted out for the presentation.
My talk was overshadowed by the Internet Explorer pretzel that I discovered this morning, which received a good round of applause. I have taken photos of it, and will post them to this […]

Jouk Pleiter of Backbase, showing off plenty of demos using their toolkit. I’ve seen these before, so no big wow-factor, but seeing them again now, I’m very impressed with how well they’ve sorted the bookmarking and back-button issues.
There’s been a rush to open source various proprietary Ajax frameworks - both Backbase and Flex are OS-ing […]

Soundbite from David H-H : “Rails - it makes work suck less.”
Good talk, and some very interesting stuff about using a 1K Flash ‘movie’ (no longer the right word) to act as a socket-based communication system, enabling push. Flash is available on more clients than Ajax.
Campfire uses HTTP polling instead, apparently, because of percieved server […]