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Over the last year I've become increasingly interested in Ruby on Rails. Although Rails has many technical reasons to peak my interests what interests me most is the passion that those using Rails have »
Josh Gertzen of Thinwire has written up a detailed survey of techniques for OO-style inheritance in Javascript, leading up to the technique he's recently developed to overcome flaws in the existing approaches »
On Friday I started for a customer an investigation in providing a Flex front-end for an Ruby on Rails backend using WebORB. In parallel I will push this investigation further for myself in order to find »
Adam Howitt has put together an 8-page PDF on Ajax design . In the guide which you can download from the link below I'll cover the process I have developed in the course of implementing two AJAX applications »
Summary Note The markup here is different to most patterns as it was edited directly from an HTML version. Ajax, Balanced, Client-SOA, DHTML, Fast, Fat, Interactive, Platform, RichInternetApplication, »
Summary = Background =As web applications become more dynamic and responsive to the user, they tend to use an increasing amount of client-side JavaScript. As a result, many web developers have sought ways »
Summary Problem How to personalize content and make pages cacheable and bookmarkable at the same time Forces We want pages to have clean URLs that describe the main content being viewed. Doing so makes »
Justin Palmer has updated us with a bunch of recent Prototype updates including Chainability A bunch of methods now return their first arg so we can change together methods PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT $( sidebar »
What is exactly software architecture Do we really need it Why have we only recently been discussing it Is there suddenly a contagious fever about software architecture infecting those who claim to be »