Software As She’s Developed

… 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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I’m here in SF for The Ajax Experience, talking about design principles and patterns for Ajax (big surprise!), and one of the things my presentation will point out is the importance of libraries and frameworks in implementing Ajax patterns. Ahead of the talk, I just did a quick count of frameworks and libraries on the […]

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‘Tis Goud reports from Mix ‘06, Microsoft’s web bash currently happening in Vegas. One of the presentations focused on the most important thing about Ajax: Usability. The session started with referencing two sites with information on: Usabillity Patterns, Michael Mahemoff Usabillity Guidelines, Thomas Baekdal Thomas’s guidelines were the first […]

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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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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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I’m pleased that AjaxPatterns.org seems to have entered the pattern community radar in the past couple of months (or maybe earlier, but that’s the impression I’m getting) … Workshop on Ajax Patterns Ralph Johnston (of GoF Design Patterns fame) runs a regular patterns reading group/workshop and they’ve been looking at the Ajax patterns. Fortunately, they release the […]

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Architecture, Patterns, Town Planning Any book on patterns must include the obligatory Christopher Alexander discussion. In my case, it’s brief, for the following reason: One side benefit of this project has been to see how “patterns” are being accepted by the development community. The attention on the Ajax Patterns has always been on the “Ajax” and not […]

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Today’s Ajax framework is JsRia. Yesterday’s was ZK, with the Backbase entries updated too. In the past week, there were Smartclient, Ajax JSP Taglib, Ajax JSF Framework, Cajax. Here’s the diff. The week prior to that saw introduction of XOAD, Rialto, and Lotus Notes info. Have the Ajax frameworks entered the enlightened age of singularity? (I’ve […]

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Matt @ 37Signals discusses new countdowns being used at pedestrian crossings (crosswalks). Did you ever count how many redundant messages are available at a pedestrian crossing? Good, let’s be sad together and count them, then. At a workshop one time, various attendees from different countries came up with a list of cues, something like the […]

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Check out Alexander Kirk’s new website: Blummy. A blummy is a kind of bookmarklet that opens up a kind of pop-up portal, giving you access to various web services. Just like a portal is made up of Portlets, a Blummy is made of Blummlets, which essentially do the kind of things bookmarklets do. e.g. […]

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