JavaScript swims downstream with the web

Roy Fielding’s original REST dissertation (published in 2000) has an interesting section on Java versus JavaScript, which I’ve not come across before and has certainly stood the test of time. In particular, the biggest benefit is explained to be nothing...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc: Posterous Moved

For some years, I ran a little posterous blog called Mini Software As She’s Developed, the little brother to this blog’s great uncle’s step-cousin. It was effectively a pastebin to throw random things at. Now that Posterous is to be...

Blinking WebKit

Speed. When Alex Russell talks about greater speed [1], I take it fractally. At micro level, it means actual day-to-day web development and debugging is faster; and at macro level, it means browsers and web standards move faster. Google works...