Getting up to speed

Another year and another chance to try some new things. In the last few years I have been toying around with AJAX and even built a few small scale applications using this. I tried a few different toolkits, some commercial and some opensource, before settling on Sajax. It is not as feature laden as others (Dojo and Backbase) but...

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iTunes and bridge design

I love reading Joel Spolsky’s blog, Joel on Software.  He has a way of writing and presenting an idea or concept that makes me think more deeply about the topic.  His most recent post regarding the difference of design between two bridges was used to illustrate how elegance of design in software in just as important as...

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AJAX Toolkits

Oct 29, 06 AJAX Toolkits

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Ajaxian.com conducted a recent survery on Ajax toolkits/frameworks. The “winner” was Prototype ( a new one to me ) which is a Ruby based framework. Wow! I did not realise there were so many AJAX frameworks out there! I use Sajax ( it is simple ) and have been experimenting with Backbase ( too complex for me ). PHP turns out...

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Joel on Software

Joel on Software “How do you decide between C#, Java, PHP, and Python? The only real difference is which one you know better. If you have a serious Java guru on your team who has build several large systems successfully with Java, youre going to be a hell of a lot more successful with Java than with C#, not because Java is a...

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Firefox Extensions

Apr 05, 06 Firefox Extensions

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TechCrunch » Firefox 2.0 Alpha Released

TechCrunch has a link to a site claiming to have an Alpha version of Firefox 2.0. I could not find any such alpha verion on the official mozilla site so I wil refrain from downloading this one. The security of my computer is more important than having the latest and greatest (assuming this is legit).Update:Apparently the folks...

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