I was just reminded of Mail to the Future, a 1998 Userland webapp that lets you - anyone? anyone? - mail to the - anyone? anyone? -future. (Respect for self-documenting webapps.) Another webapp - of similar homebrew feel - that came out around then was the birthday reminder system by Philip Greenspun and Olin Shivers. […]
Entries from June 2005
Scheduling on the Interwebs - A Wishlist
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments
Tags: HumansAndTech
“A” is for Asynchronous - Think AJAX, Think Modeless
June 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
Today’s entry is brought to you by the letter “A”. The “A” in AJAX stands for Asynchronous, and Cédric Savarese cautions that many AJAX applications treat XMLHttpRequests synchronously. That is, they submit data and do something when it responds. He cautions: What happens really is that XmlHttpRequest is not used for what it is […]
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