Software As She’s Developed

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 [...]

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"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: PLAIN TEXTHTML: <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 [...]

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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 [...]

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… 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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