Software As She’s Developed

.... Wherein our protaganist awakes to the power of CSS ... CSS is as important to Ajax as Asynchrony and XMLHttpRequest. Which is to say, it's very useful, even though it's not essential. Due to an accident of the English language, JJG's creative mind, and the propensity of certain terms to rise to buzzdom, it doesn't [...]

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This is the third in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). An audio discussion of visual effects is ideally short and sweet, so this podcast is but 13 minutes long. This 13-minute podcast covers ten patterns of Ajax Architecture (Book: Chapter 16, pp 445-472): One-Second Spotlight One-Second Mutation One-Second Motion Highlight Listen Now: [...]

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This is the second in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). The guest for this week is Dave Johnson of Nitobi (the Ajax component developers formerly known as E-Business Applications), widget guru and author of the upcoming Enterprise Ajax book. Dave helps me walk through the patterns and [...]

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And so, a new series begins, based on the Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). We've already looked at the technical details, now we're looking at what Ajax can do for users and how to implement these features. I'm asking guests to join me for most of the remaining Ajax Pattern podcasts. [...]

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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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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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The third podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. The 29-minute podcast covers five patterns. As with the previous podcast, there is reason for concern about the audio quality herein. Firstly, three patterns on DOM population - taking server response data and displaying it or storing it in the DOM: XML Data Island Retain [...]

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Continuing from the previous podcast (*cough* 12 weeks ago), more programming patterns. Unfortunately, this recording (and the next one) went pear-shaped. Sorry. I do, however, recommend them to those of you who've been wondering what an Ajax talk would have sounded like in crackly 1930s recording technology, and one in which the speaker has a [...]

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Quick announcement podcast (5 minutes): Ajax Patterns podcasts - programming patterns parts 2 and 3 - to be uploaded shortly Book has been published Recent AjaxPatterns.org updates Listen Now:  Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download document.getElementById('podPressPlayerSpace_305_label_mp3Player_305_0').innerHTML='Hide Player'; document.getElementById('podPressPlayerSpace_305').title = 'mp3Player_305_0';

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Jeff Attwood points out that on w3schools, a huge majority of developers are still using IE. About 60% IE and 25% Firefox. Amazingly 2.3% are still using Mozilla (why?). Unfortunate that 60% of developers aren't using IE ... but the reality is many don't have much choice...they'll be working in corporate-standard windows environments, where IE already [...]

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