So from time to time I’d wondered what all the brilliant DHTML hackers that Google had hired were up to. Obviously, building products. Sure. But I knew these guys. They do infrastructure, not just kludges and one-off’s. You don’t build a product like Gmail and have no significant UI infrastructure to show for it.
Today they [...]
Tag Archives: javascript
A Bit of Closure
November 5, 2009 – 12:03 pm
JS 1.8 Function Expressions: The Opposite of “Good”
August 6, 2009 – 2:02 pm
JavaScript is crying out for a way to write functions more tersely. I’ve added my suggestion to the debate, and was vaguely aware that Mozilla had implemented “function expressions”. It wasn’t until I saw their use in the (excellent) ProtoVis examples that I realized how stomach-churningly bad the syntax for them is. Instead of dropping [...]
On JS “Lambdas”
May 20, 2009 – 10:01 am
The ES working group is hard at work on “Harmony”, the goals of which are significantly more sane than previous attempts to build a new language from JavaScript. Namely, they’re being careful to be able to express things in new syntax based on old syntax. This is referred to as “de-sugaring”. Many new bits of [...]
OSCON 2009 Call For Papers Is Open!
January 11, 2009 – 2:35 pm
I’m a bit tardy on this, but the OSCON 2009 Call For Papers is now open.
In the past couple of years the shift from desktop-centric to a more web-centric OSCON has continued to make the conference useful and engaging, and great work on topics like JavaScript/Ajax performance, Dojo, Comet, and many of the emerging back-end [...]
delegate(), delegate(), delegate()
October 10, 2008 – 4:50 pm
My MBP batteries keep dying after about a year (each). I usually have 2 that I tote around with me, and each tends to be good for 1.5-2hrs of actual work. This means that I tend not to be able to work through a cross-country flight, and particularly not if I need a VM for [...]
“Action Oriented Programming”
October 9, 2008 – 9:40 am
It’s good to be back in SF after a pretty hectic week in Boston for Dojo Developer Days and The Ajax Experience. There’s a lot to say about them, which hopefully I’ll get to in a longer post. Our first DDD event under Pete’s excellent leadership was a success and Dojo and SitePen very well [...]
The Importance Of Chrome
September 1, 2008 – 4:28 pm
The rumors seem to have been true…the gBrowser is real. And it looks like it will simply be awesome. To my friends who have been toiling on it in deep secrecy for so very long, congratulations. Yes, yes, more to do, blah blah…screw that. You shipped! Huzzah!
So what does Chrome mean for those of us [...]
