Software As She’s Developed

Many equate Ajax to “Is it using XMLHttpRequest?”, which I think is taking the acronym too literally. There’s a reason why I’ve learned to say “Ajax” rather than “AJAX”: the term is user-centric, not techno-centric, and best defined in terms of what it gives users rather than how you deliver it. And what it gives […]

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Agile is a big theme these days. Not surprising that it should be a big part of “Web 2.0″, since Web 1.0 is often attributed as an inspiration. Paul Scrivens reminds us of 37Signals’ association with agile principles. Similarly, the agile manifesto was mentioned in a Web Essentials talk last week (I think Kelly Goto’s […]

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Full drafts are now online for the two big Web Remoting patterns: XMLHttpRequest Call and IFrame Call. There are also a couple of new demos to illustrate GETting and POSTing with both call types: XMLHttpRequest Example, IFrame Example. A few extracts follow, but first, let me ask you: Do you know of any public IFrame remoting […]

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You’ve probably noticed the buzz around Flock, a browser built on Firefox. Information’s limited, but it seems to pick up on the “social” buzzword - tagging, annotations, RSS etc. Thing is, all of these things are possible in Firefox too via extensions. But extensions haven’t really taken off, and the reason is, quite frankly, poor […]

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Tagyu (via Lifehacker) accepts a URL (or some text) and gives you some tags. Tags for AjaxPatterns: ajax javascript programming web Tags for SoftwareAs.com: ajax tech webdesign design blog webdev web_2.0 Consarn it! It actually did a good job! I was hoping something off the mark. […]

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Day Barr: Chat is not quite the Hello World of Ajax, but it’s one of the simplest yet useful things I could do. I didn’t learn very much by writing an Ajax Hello World example and it’s completely pointless As many are learning, an Ajax “Hello World” is pretty easy, provided […]

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A new DHTML boxing “game” from the Man In Blue. Not quite DHTML Lemmings or Super Maryo World, but still more fun than it should be. A bit like the Ruby On Rael thing in reverse. Also from the same presentation is an eerily lifelike OSX clone (Firefox-only). More evidence that Ajax might be useful […]

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Recent Ajax apps like Kiko are sluggish according to Alexander Kirk’s “Rise of Slow Ajax Applications (via AjaxDeveloper): Pages get more voluminous because so much code has to be loaded to the browser (which makes the browser slow again) so you could just begin to use the application. This somehow reminds me of all […]

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