Last week saw a confluence of excellent events. In the same week as a house move, it proved to be a week of much learning and little sleep. I’d hoped to do a better write-up, it never happened, a combination of being too busy and new MAC BATTERIES SUCK, meaning the lappy couldn’t last [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Design Patterns'
Events Last Week: Web Fonts, Social Design Patterns, BT Dev Day, Real-Time Javascript
January 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev
Tags: CSS·CSS3·Design Patterns·Fonts·html5·Javascript·NodeJS·Web
Design Pattern: Script Islands
December 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · SoftwareDev
"Script Island" is what I'm calling a design pattern I alluded to here. The pattern is to embed Javascript in your HTML like so:
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HTML: <script id="greeting" type="x-deferred-script"> alert("this is my script - it's eval'd on demand"); </script>
When the page loads, the browser should say "I don't know what 'x-deferred-script' is, and therefore ignore the concents [...]
Tags: Ajax Patterns·Design Patterns·Javascript·Performance·Presentation
Post-Modern Job Posting: Pattern Curator
October 12th, 2006 · 1 Comment · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev
It's cool to see Yahoo! posting a job for pattern curator:
CURATE THE YAHOO! PATTERN LIBRARY Yahoo!'s Platform User Experience Design team is looking for a new curator for the Pattern Library. The curator works with designers from across Yahoo! to develop new patterns and to eventually migrate a pattern to the public library. You will be [...]
“So, Jesse, Is Ajax a Pattern?”
May 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment · HumansAndTech, Links
… 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 [...]
