Category: Ajax
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Google Chrome why?
The Internet is all a buzz with Google’s open source web browser Chrome. But you have to ask why and even if it’s a big deal. Not why there’s all the interest but why Google bothered to build their own browser? After all they could have worked with Mozilla to add these features to Firefox […]
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There’s no such thing as a document – only HTTP?
The closing keynote at XTech 2008 saw Sean McGrath discussing “Orang utans, Oxen and Ogham Stones“. The central premiss of the presentation is that as the web becomes more dynamic so more and more of the data is only accessible when its requested – and this can mean that its inaccessible to machines and therefore the rest […]
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Link for 2007.12.29
» Size Is The Enemy aka “Java is the problem” because Java is a statically typed language, it requires lots of tedious, repetitive boilerplate code to get things done [Coding Horror] Jeff Atwood’s review of Steve Yegge’s Code’s Worst Enemy: “One of the most fundamental and truly effective pieces of advice you can give a […]