Today’s entry is brought to you by the letter “A”. The “A” in AJAX stands for Asynchronous, and Cédric Savarese cautions that many AJAX applications treat XMLHttpRequests synchronously. That is, they submit data and do something when it responds. He...
With the recent news on ITunes supporting podcasts, a few thoughts. New readers of this blog might wonder why I’m mentioning podcasts … I haven’t said too much about podcasting here recently (since so many others discuss it already), but...
Fowler’s original refactoring text was based on a number of patterns. So you have a refactoring like “Introduce Null Object” which is a direct mapping to the older “Null Object” pattern. Now there’s also Joshua Kerievesky’s “Refactoring to Patterns” book...
We’re used to the distinction between “static” and “dynamic” websites. I think it’s fairly well-established that “static” means plain HTML with a possible sprinkling of CSS, while “dynamic” means a website with forms and maybe a bit of Javascript. “Web...
