Software As She’s Developed

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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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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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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Looking at the best practice/process patterns gave me some ideas for Ajax frameworks. Here's a few thoughts. I know some frameworks already do some of these things, though most don't, and none do all of them. Logging frameworks should provide a sensible default, ie log to a div, but allow for more flexiblity on the logging strategy, as [...]

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Cool! The Best Practices/Processes Patterns are now complete. They are the final eight Ajax Patterns for now - "final" in the sense of "the list is not yet finalised". The patterns had been sitting there unattended for about four months now. More details on the new patterns later, but here's a quick summary ... First, there's a [...]

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The Basics of Ajax: A 3-Part Podcast Series I'm beginning to podcast about specific Ajax patterns. To start with, a three-part series on the basics of Ajax development, covering all the Foundational Technologies patterns: Podcast 1: Display Patterns and the DOM. Podcast 2: Web Remoting - XMLHttpRequest, IFrame Call, HTTP Streaming. Podcast 3: Dynamic Behaviour - Events and Timing. These [...]

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