Bruce Eckel is organizing a very cool looking conference called
Programming the New Web. Go check out the possible topics, but since its an OpenSpaces conference I’m sure the conversation will ber all over the map. Its in Colorado, so all the skiiers should be happy. I’d be happy sitting in a lodge [...]
Waterfall 2006 looks like its shaping up to be a great conference. I can’t wait for Dion’s talk, and I’ll also be joining him for a couple new Ajax talks:
Ajax: Why Its Impossible to Test, and Why You Shouldn’t Even Try
Ajax Effects: [...]
Nerdy
Ruby on Rails cheatsheet, done very nicely as always from ILoveJackDaniels
An idea on test invariants in TDD - basically a way to enforce design by contract using typical TDD + java/C# only - from Martin Fowler.
How Ajax reduced load on MacRumors.com during Jobs presentation on Ajaxian.
Bambi Meets Godzilla - anti-anti-hype and Ruby vs Python
Not nerdy
Hindsights [...]
So, WebWork 2.2 was just released, which makes heavy use of DWR and Dojo javascript framework. Struts is going to be merging with WebWork as Struts Action Framework. So does that mean that in a couple years everyone running Struts 2.0 will be using (or at least be able to use) Dojo + [...]
James McParlane wrote a entry detailing why he won’t use the Prototype library, as extending Object or Array’s builtin prototype is bad.
However, Sam heard the complaints about how Prototype 1.3.1 was breaking existing code and other libraries, and the newer relases all use Object.extend() for safe extensions and do not change Array’s prototype. [...]
Bruce Eckel wrote on “The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts” and set of a flurry of dicussion amongst DHH, Curt, and Patrick, among others.
I think Curt nailed the most important point that Bruce made - forget the language wars, lets just talk about the best way to solve these problems without all the baggage from [...]
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Finally, Devboi has been updated for Firefox 1.5. If you aren’t familiar with it, its a sidebar extension that has full API docs for the following (from the homepage):
HTML 4.01 elements, attributes, and entity tables
CSS 2 properties, compatibility chart (IE 5 Mac, IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6, Mozilla, Opera 5, [...]
A thread on the DWR mailing list about properly detected overloaded methods with covariant types in JDK5 got me curious. So I put together some quick code to determine if one method overloads another. It works for covariant types, but I didn’t add support for generics. I’m not sure how much more [...]
With the holidays approaching, once again I struggle negotiating my amazon wishlist to figure out what books I really want for Christmas. There are so many things wrong with the usability of the wishlists that its hard to know where to start, but Marc has a good list going with some helpful feedback on [...]
Simple question - assuming we are talking about an app that is at least moderately sized (not a one-off or prototype), when would you not want to use a library or some sort of wrapper around the XmlHttpRequest object?
I had some discussions at work recently about this, where I was pushing for DWR [...]
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