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Merlyn's date and time resources

Posted by mde [ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:59:00 GMT ] Wow. Merlyn's Date and Time Index and Links are an exhaustive bunch of references on dates and times, and using them in programming. The cool kids may already know about this one, but I hadn't

Yet another DST-switchover gotcha

Posted by mde [ Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:21:00 GMT ] Wow, can't believe it's been a month and a half since I posted last. It's pretty much been the final big push to get the chapter content for the book all wrapped up.

Round trip from Evo to Scooby

Posted by mde [ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:38:00 GMT ] Yesterday I was trying a bit of interop now that Scooby is communicating fully with Cosmo using CalDAV. I used Novell's Evolution as my e-mail client (because it can easily look at mail on NFS shares), but

A nice little surprise

Posted by mde [ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:42:00 GMT ] One of the reasons I've not posted in quite awhile is because I've been trying to catch up a bit on the writing schedule for my book, while also prepping the client-side pieces of the

JavaScript timezone tastiness

Posted by mde [ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:34:00 GMT ] A post over at Why's Ruby blog on using Ruby to pitch Unix timestamps out to JavaScript led me to this really nice, long post by Johan Sundstrom on best practices for dealing with JavaScript and timezones

Joel on AJAX Calendars

Posted by mde [ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:30:00 GMT ] Just got through reading a post by Joel Spolsky declaring that there are Too Many AJAX Calendars . Reading it didn't exactly give me a warm and fuzzy feeling given that my day-to-day job is working on, well,

IE7 Breakdown

Posted by mde [ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:36:00 GMT ] Last week I downloaded the IE7 Beta 2 Preview Release. It's not horrid, although the IE team really drank the MS Office 12 no-standard-toolbar Kool-Aid, so what you have instead of named dropdown menus evenly spaced across

XHR ... still has that letter 'X'

Posted by mde [ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:03:00 GMT ] Just heard an acronym today that I thought was pretty cool. I'm sure I'm late joining in with the cool kids, but today was the first time I heard XMLHttpRequest referred to as 'XHR.

Thick or thin clients for AJAX

Posted by mde [ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:39:00 GMT ] AJAX allows you to move a lot of the 'smarts' in your Web app from the backend out to the client. This raises some interesting questions -- e.g., how much of your app's logic

AJAX book for SitePoint

Posted by mde [ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:20:00 GMT ] One of the reasons the posts have been so sparse here is that I've been working on a book. The kind folks over at SitePoint have tapped me to write a book for them on building AJAX

Upgrading to Breezy and E17

Posted by mde [ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:20:00 GMT ] Spent some time last night upgrading my work laptop from Ubuntu Linux version 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) to 5.10 (Breezy Badger). Now I should be able to run Chandler on my work machine instead of having to move

An eventful day

Posted by mde [ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:53:00 GMT ] I guess it's been a fairly eventful day -- I got to shake hands with former US Vice President Al Gore, and also to meet and speak briefly with author and tech-law expert Larry Lessig. Vice President

JavaScript ` DateAdd ` and ` DateDiff `

Posted by mde [ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:24:00 GMT ] Finally needed some JavaScript code to handle heavy date-manipulation lifting, with all the week-to-week navigation and date-difference calculation happening in Scooby. I got my start with Web dev working with MS Active Server Pages in VBScript, and whatever else

Revisionist AJAX History

Posted by mde [ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:27:00 GMT ] Now that the AJAX hype is really going full-bore, we were bound to see folks posting their particular spin on the evolution of AJAX. I've seen two of these recently, both of which get things pretty much

Feeling the table love

Posted by mde [ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:22:00 GMT ] Roger Johansson has an excellent post over on his blog on how to make tables more usable in the modern world of CSS . The point is not to avoid them all together, but make sure to address the issues

Inspirational Friday

Posted by mde [ Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:18:00 GMT ] Found a really great post today off Reddit on the Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming . This is great stuff. The closest I ever came to this kind of an environment was in my startup days working at KnowledgeWire, before

Let the Web 2.0 backlash ... against the backlash ... begin

Posted by mde [ Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:47:00 GMT ] It appears that Web 2.0 boredom has finally well and truly set in. We've passed the point of the Web 2.0 backlash ("Web 2.0 is bunk.") from Russell Shaw on his Weblog

AJAX Conference -- \"The AJAX Experience\"

Cool, looks like we're getting our own conference for this here AJAX stuff. Brian, a co-worker of mine, has kindly clued me in to the upcoming AJAX Experience (no relation to the Jimi Hendrix Experience ), which will be held in San Francisco, May 10-12, 2006, hosted by the

AJAX devs: client- or server-side?

A recent post on QuirksMode about JavaScript and "serious" programmers asks the question "Who will create the AJAX apps?" The post really delves into one of the most fundamental problems that the AJAX boom creates: the push and pull between the old-school client-side devs (like me)

Obligatory AJAX

Alex Bosworth has a good post over on his Weblog on 10 Places You Must Use Ajax . This is a nice, thoughtful list, and it's apparent Alex has a good visceral grasp of not just AJAX, but of interactive Web site or Web application design -- it'

Web 2.0 software survey

Just saw a pretty nice post on Dion Hinchcliffe's Weblog of the Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 . It's got a pretty nice rundown of Web apps in a lot of different categories including Social Bookmarking, Online To-Do Lists, Blog Filters, Online Calendars, and even

Applying AJAX

AJAX is officially an entrenched technolgy buzzword. We've finally got Jacob Nielson intoning on his Weblog, "AJAX Sucks Most of the Time" . At least he did put that qualifier in there. I'm always inclined to take what Nielson says with a grain of salt,

When to comment code

I saw a pretty decent post off of Slashdot on commenting your code , from Make the Software Shine . This was interesting timing since yesterday as I was working on Scooby, I was noticing how many pieces of code were sadly lacking comments. Of course it was the knee-jerk guilt reaction

This one goes to 2.0

Just saw a link off Digg to an entry on the on the Microformats wiki about something called AHAH (Get it? "Aha!"). The article headline describes it as "AJAX 2.0," and breathlessly explains that is "backed by David Hansson, the creator of Ruby on

Bringing a tear to my eye

Today I had the unique opportunity to do a little work on OSAF's main application, Chandler , which is rapidly approaching its 0.6 release. The little pop-up box that displays when you select the "About Chandler" option in the help menu, as it turns out, is