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		<title>Creative Coder/Designer sought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	When I&#8217;m not talking/writing/teaching Ajax, I&#8217;m often found practising it at Historic Futures, in idyllic rural Gloucestershire (that&#8217;s in the UK). 
	We&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Javascript Interpreter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	For the Prototype &#038; Scriptaculous book, I wrote an interactive interpreter or &#8217;scratchpad&#8217;, 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 &#038; closures, and arrays get a good workout.
	It occurred to me a little while ago that I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajax Killed, twice in one week!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	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 &#8216;n&#8217; XAML based presentation system that runs across browsers, and even on Macs. And Miguel&#8217;s already announced a port for Linux. The second Ajax killer of the week is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dave.sunwheeltech.com/wordpress/2007/05/09/ajax-killed-twice-in-one-week/</link>
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		<title>Ajax Course Revamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	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 &#038; DOM and Core Ajax courses, we&#8217;ll be offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metaprogramming Javascript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Within a couple of weeks of almost getting my head around Ruby meta-classes, here&#8217;s a link to an interesting presentation on metaprogramming Javascript (in PDF format) by Adam McCrea. I&#8217;m not completely convinced that
	
show("brutus").when("us-state").is("Ohio,Michigan")

	really qualifies as a DSL - reminiscent of Prototype&#8217;s somewhat cheesy Try.these() - but it&#8217;s a pretty mean feat of coding nonetheless.

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		<title>How Sgt. Pepper got his Legs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	
	
	
	
	
	
	
before
	after

	
	
	I&#8217;m hanging out at the JavaRanch saloon this week answering questions about the new book, and very excited I am to see it in print at last. One reader has asked me this morning why the book changed it&#8217;s name from &#8216;P &#038; S Quickly&#8217; to &#8216;P &#038; S in Action&#8217; at the last minute, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QCon 2: Ruby Meta-programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I spent most of the day at the Ajax track, but snuck off upstairs to join the Ruby crowd for Dave Thomas&#8217; talk on Ruby meta-programming. Partly, it was the draw of a big name, but mostly just for the fun of guddling in low-level language stuff. I&#8217;d been playing around with closures in JavaScript [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 3.0 Timeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Nat Torkington of O&#8217;Reilly Radar (who first appeared on my radar as author ofvthe Perl Cookbook), has written a very nice future timeline of the Web. Nuff said on my part, go have a look.

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		<link>http://dave.sunwheeltech.com/wordpress/2007/03/27/web-30-timeline/</link>
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		<title>QCon round-up 1 : GWT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	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&#8217;ve been following [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dave.sunwheeltech.com/wordpress/2007/03/19/qcon-round-up-1-gwt/</link>
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		<title>Speaking at QCon on Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;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 &#8216;yes&#8217;, for those not able to attend, but along the way I&#8217;ll be visiting some common design patterns, and looking at [...]]]></description>
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