Software As She’s Developed

Dion posted a story about Nokia's new mobile widgets. This will be very cool if it's as good as it sounds. However, what got me was the XML-based config - three separate files for config, skin, and widgets. The widget config: PLAIN TEXTXML: <widget name="Example widget" version="0.1">     <info>     <creator>       <user>username</user>       <date>7.6.2006 12:00</date>   [...]

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The third podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. The 29-minute podcast covers five patterns. As with the previous podcast, there is reason for concern about the audio quality herein. Firstly, three patterns on DOM population - taking server response data and displaying it or storing it in the DOM: XML Data Island Retain [...]

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Continuing from the previous podcast (*cough* 12 weeks ago), more programming patterns. Unfortunately, this recording (and the next one) went pear-shaped. Sorry. I do, however, recommend them to those of you who've been wondering what an Ajax talk would have sounded like in crackly 1930s recording technology, and one in which the speaker has a [...]

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Whereupon a new podcast series begins ... As promised, a new series of Ajax pattern podcasts. This is the first of four podcasts on the Ajax programming patterns. In this 73 minute podcast, we look at the seven patterns of web services as they relate to Ajax clients. RPC Service Expose web services as Remote Procedural Calls [...]

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Further to the previous post on new Ajax programming patterns, it's also worth noting there's a new bunch of corresponding online Ajax demos too. Being programming patterns, they tend to be "pure refactorings" rather than enhancements, thus the user experience is mostly the same - you have to look under the covers to see what's [...]

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I've uploaded full text for 18 new Ajax patterns, completing a first-cut draft for all Programming Patterns content, which will be one part of the book. This section bridges the gap between the very basics of Ajax - XMLHttpRequest, DOM, etc - and the high-level stuff like widgets and visual effects. For instance, how do [...]

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