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Ajax Killed, twice in one week!

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

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 […]

Metaprogramming Javascript

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Within a couple of weeks of almost getting my head around Ruby meta-classes, here’s a link to an interesting presentation on metaprogramming Javascript (in PDF format) by Adam McCrea. I’m not completely convinced that

show(”brutus”).when(”us-state”).is(”Ohio,Michigan”)

really qualifies as a DSL - reminiscent of Prototype’s somewhat cheesy Try.these() - but it’s a pretty mean feat of coding nonetheless.

QCon round-up 1 : GWT

Monday, March 19th, 2007

My one day at QCon on Friday was interesting, plenty of good ideas and discussion. I kept to time in my own talk, and had some good questions. The highlights for me, though, were in hearing what everyone else had to say.
Bruce Johnson gave a good overview of Google Web Toolkit, something I’ve been following […]

Speaking at QCon on Friday

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I’ll be in London on Friday at QCon, talking about whether we need to think of the Javascript code in the browser as a separate tier in our n-tier applications. The short answer is ‘yes’, for those not able to attend, but along the way I’ll be visiting some common design patterns, and looking at […]

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