classical geek

When I’m not talking/writing/teaching Ajax, I’m often found practising it at Historic Futures, in idyllic rural Gloucestershire (that’s in the UK).
We’re looking - rather unsuccessfully, at the moment - for someone to fill a gap in our team, to complement our existing technical skills with a bit of graphical flair. The usual channels are […]

For the Prototype & Scriptaculous book, I wrote an interactive interpreter or ’scratchpad’, to allow easy visualisation of non-visual language features. This came in useful especially in the Prototype sections (chapters 8-10), in which objects, functions & closures, and arrays get a good workout.
It occurred to me a little while ago that I could […]

When your favourite programming toolset is announced dead twice in a week, you know it must be in good shape!
First up, Microsoft announced Silverlight, a .NET ‘n’ XAML based presentation system that runs across browsers, and even on Macs. And Miguel’s already announced a port for Linux. The second Ajax killer of the week is […]

My Ajax training course, run in connection with Skillsmatter is getting a major revamp this June (as opposed to the continual minor revamps that have been going on since day one as new stuff keeps appearing in the Ajax landscape). In addition to the Core Javascript & DOM and Core Ajax courses, we’ll be offering […]