On Ajaxian, Dion points to Sun's Phobos project, an attempt to build a new platform for server-side Javascript. Phobos came out six months ago, around the time of the May Ajax Experience.
No-one has taken server-side Javascript seriously since it died a premature death in the mid-90s. But there is great potential...
Server-side Javascript would allow for [...]
Tags: Ajaxian·Java·Javascript·Links·Phobos·Rails·Ruby·Server-Side Javascript
The publicly-editable Ajax Frameworks Page got a nice kick along in the past few days, presumably due to a recent link from Ajaxian. If this list is anything to go by, the most common language is pure-Javascript, and Java is, as you might have guessed, highest on the server-side, followed by .Net and PHP. Sections for Python and Perl were opened [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·DotNet·Frameworks·Java·Javascript·Links·PHP·Software·Web
If there's one certainty in this industry, it's the ongoing hilarity of job ads. David Heinemeier Hansson found a job ad that mentions "Rails" in the same breath as "enterprise" and "whitepaper", and "struts" in the same breath as "latest and greatest":
Should have ideally 5 years experience with all of the latest [...]
Tags: J2EE·Java·Jobs·Rails·Recruiters·Ruby On Rails·Web2.0
Dave Crane looks into some Scriptaculous code. The main point is that Scriptaculous is easy for novice JS programmers to use, but the source code would be difficult, for novices at least, to understand. Which raises these questions:
So, going back to the bigger picture, here’s something for the authors of JavaScript libraries to [...]
Tags: Design·Java·JavaEE·Javascript·Links·Object-Oriented·Scriptaculous·Software
