2007
Back into the Future of Web: HTML5 SQL Player
Like a Three Stooges carpet-pull slapstick stunt, the HTML5 client-side storage spec changed drastically the night I released my Gears wrapper. Thump. Ow!
Jumping Off Audience Navigation Bandwagon
Future Endeavor has another insightful post, followed by an interesting UX example of the University of Virginia front door. I am a big fan of this blog and would highly recommend it to anyone involved in higher education Web development.…
Chewing on Open Social
So, the cat is out of the bag, in case you haven’t heard (and if you haven’t, what remote island are you living on?). I spent a bit of time this weekend, playing with the new toys, trying to analyze…
Slides from my IPSA presentation on HTML5 and Google Gears
Today, at the monthly IPSA meeting, I gave a presentation on Google Gears and HTML5 client-side storage part of the spec. As promised, I uploaded the slides to this blog.
HTML5 Wrapper for Gears
This is possibly the lowest-hanging fruit ever. After WebKit folks released their implementation of the HTML5 SQL storage specification, Gears immediately became the odd man out, the non-standards-compliant implementation. Never you mind that this part of the spec is still…
My iPhone SDK
So, my good friend Steve spills the beans about the upcoming SDK. The crowd screams like girls at the Beatles concert. Even ever-curmudgeonly Dave eeks a “hooray”. And that’s a big deal, my reading acquaintance. Now, I don’t own an…
HighEdWebDev 2007
The HighEdWebDev 2007 conference begins tomorrow and I am all ready to go. This is my second year to attend this gathering. Last year, I was sitting at the vendor table (“Hello, I would you like to buy a pound…
Call Me Gearhead
So, I am playing with Google Gears and I’ve got to tell ya, Gears are brilliant. And the farther you look, the shinier it gets. Why? Because Gears fulfill the ultimate fantasy of any Web developer in a very radical…
Margin Marks UI Concept
Margin marks is a user interface concept that aims to expose microformats on a web page in a way that’s intuitive, useful, and positionally relevant, yet has minimal interaction with the page presentation. This concept can be also extended to…
The Horrific Markup of Live Spaces and Possible Explanation of Dare not Getting Microformats
It’s a Friday surprise! After reading this post by Dare Obasanjo, I dutifully followed the links in the article. Upon stumbling on his Live Spaces friends page, I instinctively hit Ctrl+U to peek at the source code. Ow! Ow! My…
Framework for Tomorrow’s Web
I am trying something new here. Instead of blabbering and shaking wrinkled fists like a cranky old man, I’ll turn my lemon into something with a bit more kinetic oomph. Like a two-by-four. Kidding! Kidding…
Javascript Makes Me Giddy
I must be a simple man, ‘cuz things like this in Javascript make me slap my sides, and go Hot damn!
ECMAScript 4 on the Server
Let’s imagine there is a viable, publicly available ECMAScript4 (that’s Javascript 2.0, y’all) implementation that runs on the server (is there, by the way?), that can be used instead of Ruby, Python, PHP, C# etc. Wouldn’t it be great?
Client-side Performance Tip
I wanted to mention this for a while, but only now found a bit of time. This is very important.
Goodbye, Subtext
They say: “all good things must come to an end”. What a load of crap! It’s like saying: “only bad things last forever”. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be: “some good things occasionally come to an end”. But that’s…
BarCampAustin
I am sitting here at BarCampAustin, the precursor to the SXSW 2007 conference. This one is really a bar camp. It’s at Bourbon Rocks bar, and the atmosphere follows suit. There is actually a bartender behind us, and even a…