AJAX, Web 2.0, etc. etc. Five or six years ago programming Javascript user interfaces on the web meant a lot of tedious DOM debugging in IE, Netscape, early Mozilla builds, and (if you were awesome and/or a masochist), Opera.
astormInterfaces and abstract classes are one of those next tier topics that will initially flummox someone whose background has been primarily linear programming.
astormI just released a pile of code called Content Courier. It's the front-end framework I use to serve up content on this site; a generalized programatic framework for serving up content from multiple databases, using database in the loosest of terms. There's more information
astormJust a quick note that I've changed some things around behind the scenes but you, dear reader, should notice nothing (other than an increase in posts if all goes according to plan).
astormI'm teaching myself Cocoa and Objective-C via Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa Programming for Mac (second edition). I'm using my website to talk through the process and review what I've just taught myself. This helps me learn. I will, over the next new months, inevitably tell
astormI've been playing around with the new Programmer Q&A site, Stack Overflow. Overall it's a great site, and built with a vision that most web projects lack in the era of mis-applied agile development. You can checkout my profile page or it's corresponding
astormOne of the neat things you can do with the Rhino Javascript shell is take some piece of text manipulation or validation that's been written for the web and use it in any shell script, or any editor that supports calling out to shell
astormI'm Alan Storm, a human being living in Portland, OR by way of Seattle, WA by way of Portland, OR by way of Rochester, NY. I like making websites, and I talk about that here.
astormI'm playing apache config guy this weekend, and I'd forgotten what a struggle configuring mod_rewrite can be. Here's two things you always want to do when setting up a new ruleset, even (especially) if you think it's just a quick five minutes change that
astormMicrosoft is set to release IE 8, which features an improvement in XHTML/HTML/CSS standards support, but introduces a slew of contradictory compatibility modes and features (version targeting, user toggles for standards and compatibility mode, different treatment of Intranet and Internet site, etc.)
astormThere's a new version of the Firefox Web Browser on deck, and as is the custom Mac UI experts and critics have started in on the various inconsistencies that the Firefox XUL based UI has when compared with an application built using the built
astormPart of my new gig includes working with a Mark Logic content server, which is basically an indexable, query-able, heavily indexed collection of XML documents.
astormMy first year of programming in college, which was my third year in college, was taught in c++. I was part of a new experimental major at RIT christened Information Technology. It was trying to find a happy space in-between hardcode Computer Science and
astormPrior to getting into jQuery, I was a big fan of the YUI (still am) and found myself using a lot Yahoo/Crockford like coding patterns, specifically the module/singleton pattern.
astormDesperate for content, I'm pilfering posts I've made to message boards, mainly to give me a reason to link to the very nifty coconutBattery, an application that lets you monitor how much of your (Apple) laptop battery's ability to hold a charge has degraded
astormSo, from a working developer standpoint, the PHP market has segmented into three distinct units.
astormIt looks like Micorsoft relented somewhat on their version targeting strategy. If IE 8 detects a "standards friendly" doctype, the default rendering mode will be the most up-to-date version available. Previously, without the presence of a version targeting meta tag, the plan was for
astormI did some major email cleanup, archiving about 6 years worth of mail and starting with a fresh, empty email client (still Mailsmith, although that might be changing soon)
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