Software As She’s Developed

I recently got fed up of spam. Well, that happened a long time ago. What bothered me recently, enough to take action, was false positives, i.e. real email that fell into my spam folder. My primary email address, michael@mahemoff.com, gets about 3000 mails a day…so what goes in my spam folder, stays in my spam […]

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I've recently been playing around with PHP again, because (a) it's vastly simpler to deploy personal projects in PHP than any other platform (aside from pure client-side Ajax of course!) (b) it's so easy to get simple stuff done. Anyway, one thing I'm doing is creating a RESTful service where parameter crunching is at an all-time [...]

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All code for the Ajax Patterns demos is now available. This is the code used as examples for many of the patterns at AjaxPatterns.org, as well as the Pattern-Led Tutorial that forms Chapter 2 of the "Ajax Design Patterns" book to be published next month. Download the code - ajaxdemos.zip. Read the installation notes. Basically, you need [...]

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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 [...]

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