Software As She’s Developed

Kathy Sierra explains a variation of the “Tipping Point”: The Koolaid Point: A Threshold at which enough users become so passionate that others accuse them of “drinking the koolaid”. Often fueled by commercial success. Kathy makes a great point: passion doesn’t mean happiness - people can be passionately opposed too. Nice to see how universal this phenomenon is […]

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I just discovered a new feed meta-search: TalkDigger (via Data Mining). It’s Ajax search all the way (buzzword overload!). The site shows how ideal Ajax is for meta-search. Each time you enter a query, the browser fires off multiple queries - one for each engine it searches. That means the results all come back in parallel - […]

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Jason Salas is a blogger-podcaster who’s been writing a lot of good stuff about Ajax lately. He notes the new ComfortASP .Net abstracts away the DHTML/JS so you can do everything server-side. The new Ajax JSP Taglib does that too. The idea’s been used previously with libraries like the struts validation module. Custom libraries are […]

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For a long time, the Ajax Patterns had a big section of widgets, about 15 in all. This week, I’ve been working on full-text versions and they’ll be finished on the weekend. Writing the low-level details helped crystallise some of the relationships for me, and I’ve been able to break those widgets into three groups, […]

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One of several reasons why podcasting won’t be as big as blogging, according to Paul Scrivens : Blogging requires a browser (if you are using a webmin interface) and an Internet connection. That’s it. Podcasting takes it a step further by requiring a microphone. I know many of you have mics on your computers, […]

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Earl Castledine points out the allegedly dark side of XMLHttpRequest: spying on users (thanks Ajaxian). It seems that this capability will cause it to “likely fall from grace”! (I mentioned the issue a little while ago regarding the Heartbeat pattern). Two examples are given in the new article: you write an e-mail to Apple […]

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Lazy registration is a killer app for Ajax usage in business. Tim Haines has a contest going on to improve a business model with Ajax (right on, Rick Strahl). The contest is about an online ecommerce site - I can do better than a suggestion … I’ve got a working prototype for this one and […]

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