Software As She’s Developed

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This mashup was just obvious. You've probably seen these snap.com website previews that hover over links on TechCrunch and various other sites. Can be useful and can be, well, a bit annoying, depending on the site in question. For Weborandom, though, there was no question. It just made eternal sense and I kept imagining it [...]

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Paint me Melbourne Blue and call me a serial straw clutcher, but I just discovered a practical use for Weborandom, the Web Bling-Point-Oh app that shows random websites in an Ajax carousel and has accrued no less than eight, yes that's a superb EIGHT-point-oh Diggs :/. Have you ever found your net connection a little slow? [...]

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It seems that Ajax people have been profoundly touched by my April 1 Ajaxian post on the new Ajax timing mechanisms. Hopefully it will lead to a new age of enlightenment for humanity and finally a cool acceptance of the fearsome blink tag. On blink: ...And so it was that <blink>'s true purpose became known. Reborn as [...]

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I made a new Ajax toy. Web-O-Random is a random website finder with some Ajaxy goodness: Sites load into a carousel (slider) component. Thanks to Bill Scott and Yahoo! for providing the original component and Sebastien Gruhier for the prototype port which is used here. Pages load into an IFrame (as with WebWait). User can re-randomize, [...]

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A reader just mailed me about what I see as concerns with Ajax right now...what's still worryng? Well, here are a few things off the top of my head... Accessibility is still a key issue, but more to do with if people bother to Ajaxify at all than if people break accessibility. If developers are required by [...]

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Update (2 days later):The site’s been popular - 10k+ views yesterday. Hit Delicious Popular and somehow got caught up in the German blogosphere, the greatest source of hits. Technorati it. There’s a good discussion in Ajaxian of the strengths and weaknesses of this technique. As with AjaxPatterns, which also reached Delicious Popular, it failed to [...]

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Quizr - AKA "The reason this blog has been sparse for the past couple of months" - is online now. It's a site I developed to allowing making, taking, and sharing of quizzes ... making the most of Ajax and the assorted Web 2.0 technologies. At the heart of it is user-generated content - anyone [...]

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  Just discovered Ajax Design Patterns has received the 2006 Editor's Choice Award from Linux Journal for books on software development. It's a personal honour, but it's also a sign of the groundbreaking role Ajax has played in 2006. Ajax Design Patterns, published by O'Reilly, assumes that you have a good idea of how HTTP, HTML, the [...]

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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 [...]

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