Archive for the ‘WebDev’ Category
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Programmatic DOM node manipulation is actually not straightforward, given that Internet Explorer has so many unique DOM behaviors. I ran into quite a few issues recently when I was playing with Dojo Toolkit . I didn’t find a thorough answer to my questions when going through Dojo source code (Pardon ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Prototype.js is a popular Ajax toolkit for web developers. I have enjoyed using it despite the complains I heard from people about how Prototype.js does too much JavaScript hacking that breaks other people's code. One of the common one complains is that Prototype.js adds methods to built-in JavaScript objects ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
People say Ajax is hard...and this may be why.
I spent some time playing with Bob Buffone's newest work on Ajax over the last few days. Bob built an xModify processor that runs on either jQuery, Dojo or Mootools. The xModify processor is powerful but quite lightweight (10KB without gzip). There ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
I have to admit that I do not have an answer.
Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
OpenAjax Alliance has made substantial progress in the last 12 months since its inception. The cornerstone is OpenAjaxHub 1.0 (OaaHub 1.0).
OaaHub 1.0, an open source project under Apache V2 license, focuses on interoperability - it enables different Ajax components to inter-operate with each other using a "pub/sub" mechanism while ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
My company, Nexaweb, together with SitePen, Mozilla Foundation, Redfin, etc, joined force in making an important contribution to the open source community. See SitePen, Mozilla
Foundation, Nexaweb Technologies, Redfin, & SnapLogic Announce Open Source
Contribution of TurboAjax Group’s High-Performance Grid Widget to Dojo
Foundation.
This is interesting not only because it bridges a ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Congratulations to the Dojo team in getting 0.9 out! It is something that I have been looking for. Alex Russell showed me some significant improvements comparing to Dojo 0.4 a while ago (much smaller footprint, 10X performance improvement, etc). Now these guys have delivered it! See the release note for ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
I have been involved with W3C's Web Application Format (WAF) Working Group(WG). WAF has been working on "widget" for about one year. Marcos Caceres, a smart recent PhD graduate from Australia, has been doing some good work here.
A year ago, I was neutral about WAF's widget effort, even supportive primarily ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Introduction
OpenAjax Alliance has been growing well with over 70 members. The initial OpenAjaxHub received immediate community response - most are positive and a few responses were negative but turned out to be very helpful. Over ten Ajax offerings demonstrated support for OpenAjaxHub already (such as Apache XAP, Dojo, Nexaweb AjaxClient, ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Today is the fourth annual MIT CIO Symposium. The weather could have been better and parking could have been much better (my house is within 25 minutes walking distance from MIT. I drove instead and spent 30 minutes looking for parking) - but the conference is fairly well attended. My ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Quite a few people are asking me what I think of Sun's JavaFX annoucement . It is funny and we saw this coming - Who wouldn't anticipate Sun to make some big annoucement at JavaOne ? People were predicting the annoucement is going to be "open sourcing Java" - Oh, ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Adobe sent out a press release this morning titled "Adobe to Open Source Flex ". Is that so? Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet says this is A sign of desperation from Adobe ...Is that so?
After reading the press release a few times, the title "to Open Source Flex" seems to ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
In my previous post, “Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value “, I described a “Web 2.0 Technology Stack ” that contains three building blocks: Application Client Container, Internet Messaging Bus and Enterprise Mashup Server. In this post, I’ll explain more in detail of what an ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Introduction
Ajax is flying high and Ajax toolkits are certainly of big help. However, I do hear from people in the community complain about the size of various Ajax toolkits. A lot of Ajax toolkits require hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
In my effort to evaluate Dojo performance, I am going to build a custom Dojo widget and create my own build profile so that only the absolutely required files for my application are packaged into the initial download. However, considering the real world best practice, I would create my own ...
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