Software As She’s Developed

Update (couple of hrs later): I mailed Alex Russell (the guy who named Comet and knows plenty about it), it sounds like he’s been investigating this whole area and he’s sent me his views. We know about Comet (AKA Push, HTTP Streaming) and its ability to keep streaming info from server to browser. How about streaming […]

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A pattern for your consideration, about using Ajax to help pages be RESTful. Problem How to personalize content and make pages cacheable and bookmarkable at the same time? Forces We want pages to have clean URLs that describe the main content being viewed. Doing so makes pages easily bookmarkable and send-to-friend-able, and also allows us to cache the […]

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A couple of high-profile bloggers (via Dion) make the switch from Apple to Linux and O’Reilly Radar wonders if it’s the starty of a trend. While I prefer working with Apple, I’m nonetheless an Ubuntu fan so I certainly hope this trend picks up. However, I wonder if people know what they’re getting into. In […]

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The fourth and final podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. As always, the patterns are online at AjaxPatterns.org and covered in the book too, now available at Amazon. This 33-minute podcast covers seven patterns of Performance Optimisation: Browser-Side Cache Maintain a local cache of information. Guesstimate Instead of grabbing real data from the […]

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An AnonymousDonor introduced a nice page to AjaxPatterns.org. It’s a feature-by-feature matrix, and only has two rows to date! Feel free to add a framework or two, it could be very useful for people using the frameworks section in the most likely way. viagra online

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