Dave Winer, JSON hater Posted by mde [ Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:43:00 GMT ] Let the hating begin. Dave Winer finally has an actual look at the JSON format, and to his horror, finds that "IT’S NOT EVEN XML!" Ah, the hideous, "blood, guts, veins in my teeth"
Google votes no on SOAP Posted by mde [ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:53:00 GMT ] Looks like Google is voting no on SOAP -- as an entry on the O'Reilly Radar blog shows , they've deprecated their SOAP search API, and are directing people to their AJAX Search API instead. I'
Interview podcast on Dr. Dobb's Posted by mde [ Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:26:00 GMT ] Continuing on with the self-promotion theme I started in the last post -- a few weeks ago Mike Riley interviewed me for Doctor Dobb's Journal about my book and about working at OSAF. It looks like the
I'm number four! Posted by mde [ Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:46:00 GMT ] Interesting to see the top 10 list of Ajax books sold from the Ajax Magazine site. Apparently, my book is at number four. Not too bad I guess -- except that those big ol' foam rubber hands probably don&
YUI Theater Posted by mde [ Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:02:00 GMT ] I've just upgraded to Ubuntu Edgy, and it's kind of eerie now having Web video that works in most places. Some very nice video tutuorials over at the YUI Theater . I'm particularly enjoying
RJS in reverse -- JRS? Posted by mde [ Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:44:00 GMT ] Now this makes a bit more sense to me -- Dan Webb's MinusR/MinusMOR (some other good commentary on Luke Redpath's blog ). Rather than coding in server-side Ruby and trying to convert that to client-
Opera article on efficient JavaScript Posted by mde [ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:22:00 GMT ] Excellent article over at Dev.Opera on Efficient JavaScript . It contains a load of different tips and techniques for improving the performance of your Ajax Web application -- looking at JavaScript, interacting with the DOM, and document loading. Seems like
Second Life drama -- tier increases and CopyBot Posted by mde [ Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:11:00 GMT ] Man, the virtual world of Second Life seems to be awash in even more drama than usual. That kind of virtual milieu always provides all kinds of opportunities for social drama between players, but this time it's
XDate: JavaScript dates with real timezone support Posted by mde [ Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:13:00 GMT ] JavaScript, as a client-side language, has somewhere between slim and nothing when it comes to timezone support -- it's pretty much limited to getting the offset from GMT for whatever timezone the local machine happens to be
Cosmo 0.5 released Posted by mde [ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:23:00 GMT ] I'm excited to announce that Cosmo 0.5 is out the door, including all the Web UI code merged in from the Scooby project. The other biggie from the UI perspective is all the work we did
Arrays and instanceof with iframe Posted by mde [ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:32:00 GMT ] When is an Array not an Array? When it's off in another window, apparently. I've just found that when you reference a JavaScript Array object in another window (in this case, in an iframe), the
Dojo 0.4.0 released Posted by mde [ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:40:00 GMT ] Looks like Dojo 0.4.0 has officially dropped. I'm really happy to note that this release contains a lot of the date manipulation code I originally wrote for OSAF to be part of Cosmo -- so what
XMLHttpRequest and 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) error Posted by mde [ Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:13:00 GMT ] I would have thought they'd have fixed this bug in Firefox by now, but I just ran into it again. I can remember bumping my head on this about a year and a half ago. I have
Typo upgrade Posted by mde [ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:51:00 GMT ] What was an easy upgrade on my home machine running Ubuntu Breezy turned into a horrid, cruel, excruciating process on this Debian server. I was blown away by how smoothly the Rails migration went for the database (although Postgres
Update for JavaScript form serializer A reader's comment on a previous post has prodded me to update the JavaScript form-data serializer in the download section to use the newer encodeURI so it can handle non-ASCII characters. Bye-bye, IE5 support.
Mighty Men & Monster Maker I spent part of this afternoon showing my oldest boy (he's four) how to use my old Mighty Men & Monster Maker set. I just got the thing back from my older brother, who had taken it from my mom's place years ago to play with
Yahoo Ruby Developer Center Posted by mde [ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:36:00 GMT ] Linked from Reddit -- bask in the warmth of the Ruby love from the guys at Yahoo. Lots of links to other places, but also has some actual content like how to make REST calls to the Yahoo Web service
Steve Yegge on programming for the browser Some of it might be a little hyperbolic, but it's nice to see a post about what Steve Yegge's been up to lately . Settle down with a drink for this one -- Stevey's blog posts are not short.
Transparent PNG in the Cosmo calendar UI Posted by mde [ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:44:00 GMT ] During a conversation with a Cosmo contributor, Jeremy Epstein, about the profusion of background graphic images used for the fancy gradients in Cosmo's calendar-event lozenges, he suggested the idea of transparent PNGs over a background color
Tim Bray has some XML issues in Ruby Posted by mde [ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:37:00 GMT ] Leon Spencer has a lot to say about Tim Bray's posts on XML with Ruby. Oh, the humanity.
The new Ruby language site The new site for www.ruby-lang.org is finally up, and it's gorgeous. At last we have a site that's beautiful and easy-to-navigate -- much like the Ruby language is. The site runs on Radiant CMS , which is (naturally enough) built on Rails.
MooTools library's Web-based download builder Posted by mde [ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:15:00 GMT ] MooTools has come up with a really smart way to address the problem of JavaScript library bloat -- give people a Web-based interface to pick and choose which components they want for their download. It even lets you choose
Associated Content article on EpiphanyRadio My Webcast radio station, EpiphanyRadio , is featured in an article on Top Free Electronic or Electronica Internet Radio Stations over at Associated Content. I'm proud to note that the EpiphanyRadio stream has been 100% RIAA-free for going on four years now. It has a pretty damned decent
Breezy Nihongo -- Japanese input in Ubuntu Breezy Posted by mde [ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:49:00 GMT ] Instructions for getting Japanese input working in Ubuntu Breezy Badger are a bit different from the setup under Hoary Hedgehog. (I sure do look forward to this settling down one day soon -- maybe in Dapper?) Thankfully the Ubuntu wiki
OSAF hiring a Web UI developer We're hiring for a Web UI developer position at OSAF. This is a job working on the Ajax UI for the Cosmo project. We are looking for someone with some serious JavaScript/DOM/CSS kung fu -- and ideally some additional expertise, in either design or client-side app
