Software As She’s Developed

… That’s the question I finally got to ask the man who gave Ajax its name, following Jesse James Garrett’s keynote last week at The Ajax Experience. I consider Ajax a very standard, uncontroversial, example of a pattern, so I’ve wondered why it wasn’t introduced as such, in the original Ajax paper. Jesse said he’s […]

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Whereupon a new podcast series begins … As promised, a new series of Ajax pattern podcasts. This is the first of four podcasts on the Ajax programming patterns. In this 73 minute podcast, we look at the seven patterns of web services as they relate to Ajax clients. RPC Service Expose web services as Remote Procedural Calls […]

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Favicons should ideally be easy to manipulate, as easy as manipulating the web page's UI. (Favicons are the little website icons you see in the address bar, browser tabs, etc.) For example, a chat app like Meebo could signal that your buddy's trying to contact you, a mail app like GMail could indicate You [...]

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Following from previous posts, here's my notes from the third SAG (Uni. of Illinois CS Dept) workshop/discussion on the Ajax Patterns. See the initial post for a background on this series. Note that there was a "2.5"th workshop on HTML Response, JSON Message, XML Message, etc - it happened, but there's no audio, so I decided [...]

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Here's a podcast about Comet - exploring the two-way web with Ajax. From my Ajaxian post earlier today: Alex Russell has coined a term for a flavour of Ajax that’s been getting more attention of late. Comet describes applications where the server keeps pushing - or streaming - data to the client, instead of having the browser [...]

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Following from the previous post, here's my notes from the second SAG workshop/discussion on the Ajax Patterns. See the earliest post for a background on this series. Feb-2-2006 Second Ajax Patterns Discussion "We should set up wizlite "sag" group for annotations" [MM For the benefit of others, the online book draft version uses Alex Kirk's Wizlite.] Wizlite - [...]

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A little while back, I mentioned that some people in the patterns community have been noticing the Ajax Patterns. In particular, there have been a series of discussions about the patterns by the Software Architecture Group in the University of Illinois Computer Science Dept (home of Netscape forerunner Mosaic btw). The SAG is led by [...]

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Ajax Basics 3 of 3 This is the final of three podcasts on the basic Ajax patterns. Podcast 1: Display Patterns and the DOM. Podcast 2: Web Remoting - XMLHttpRequest, IFrame Call, HTTP Streaming. Podcast 3: Dynamic Behaviour - User Actions (Events), Timing, Ajax App, Web Service, On-Demand Javascript, Richer Plugin Podcast 3: User Actions (Events), Timing, Ajax App, [...]

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Harry Fuecks suggests there are two types of Ajax apps: HTML++ and Client/SOA. This is something I've noticed too, and it cuts right across the Ajax architecture, impacting on the user-interface, the physical architecture (browser-server separation) and the abilities of the developers involved. The "Ajax App" pattern addresses this as a decision. It's the root pattern [...]

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Here's a heads-up on the tutorial to be included with "Ajax Design Patterns". I'll let you know when the tutorial text is available, but for now, the demos are running: Demos for the AjaxPatterns Tutorial The first half is a fairly standard intro to Ajax, using the Foundational Technologies patterns (Display Manipulation, Web Remoting, Dynamic Behaviour). The second [...]

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