Software As She’s Developed

standard live blogging warning Continuing on from part 1 … Phil Hawksworth: Playing with Each Others’ Toys Phil describes the open source spectrum, from open-fan to open-curious to open-skeptic. Open source is about sharing, so in that spirit, he’s going to show us some toys he’s made. First up, Polaroiderizer. One of his lessons from this was don’t register a [...]

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A new DHTML boxing “game” from the Man In Blue. Not quite DHTML Lemmings or Super Maryo World, but still more fun than it should be. A bit like the Ruby On Rael thing in reverse. Also from the same presentation is an eerily lifelike OSX clone (Firefox-only). More evidence that Ajax might be useful [...]

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First, a quick update on yesterday’s book anouncement: Thanks for your interest. Yes, it will be published as a physical book. In the O’Reilly animal format. And no, I don’t know which animal. Periodic Refresh is a pattern where the page runs a loop to continuously grab fresh data from the server (Ajaxify Time Demo). As that [...]

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