Software As She’s Developed

On Demand Javascript – Scalecamp 2009View more presentations from mahemoff. These are the slides from my ScaleCamp presentation, covering various techniques for various styles of On-Demand Javascript, including Script Islands, “async” and “defer” attributes, and library support. One of the interesting things at ScaleCamp is that many of the folks there are dealing with third-party advertisers and [...]

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"Script Island" is what I'm calling a design pattern I alluded to here. The pattern is to embed Javascript in your HTML like so: PLAIN TEXTHTML: <script id="greeting" type="x-deferred-script">   alert("this is my script - it's eval'd on demand"); </script> When the page loads, the browser should say "I don't know what 'x-deferred-script' is, and therefore ignore the concents [...]

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Quick notes from today's FOSSBazaar event at Open World Forum in Paris. Usual caveats on typos etc as I was writing these notes live. Martin Michlmayr overviews FOSSBazaar Procurement - might like to avoid, but they have a really important role to play. With open source, it's easy to ignore procurement - why go through procurement when [...]

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My fellow Osmosoftie Paul Downey made this bodacious sketch when I ran through my @Media Ajax presentation on OpenSketch: If you haven't seen his handiwork before, he has a great talent for this distinctive style of text. Check them out. He also created The Web Is Agreement (I made a little remix of it into a [...]

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