classical geek

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]