Programming and politics

Earlier this week, the third part in a series of articles I wrote was published on developerWorks. The series is on CoffeeScript , a langua...

This morning, one of my co-workers related to me that there had been mention of HTML 5 on an NPR broadcast that he heard. He joked that this...

The iPad announcement had lots of subtleties to it. One of them was that the iPad browser, presumably Safari, does not include a Flash plugi...

For a long time now, it has been common for developers to go on and on about how they hate IE6 and how users needed to be discouraged from u...

The past couple of days has seen an amusing rant by PPK , that then turned into a retraction and call to action . The original rant included...

Sometimes you need some 80's music. While you listen to that song, I want you to think about something: the Opera browser. As an OG ge...

Ajax has been one of the most hyped technologies in recent memory. However, much of the hype is deserved. It really has changed the way we (...

One of my favorite features in Scala is its native support for XML (link warning, shameless plug.) I love the "projections DSL" (f...

This happens to me a lot: Take a look at the stack trace that gets sent to Apple: So I think this is being caused because I set the storage ...

The Lift web framework hit its 1.0 release today . Major congratulations goes to the Lift team. I have been lucky enough to get to know Lif...

This week I have been speaking at EclipseWorld in Reston, VA. I have been talking about Ruby on Rails mostly, and a little session on iPhone...

It sure took me long enough, but I finally got around to writing about Grails . This article gives some introduction to Grails, but also tal...

Today I taught a seminar on Ajax to the Bay Area chapter of the ACM . It was a lot of fun. The audience was great, asking lots and lots of e...

Earlier today, I read this interesting article about the growth of web pages . In short, average web page size has tripled in the last five ...

I was at a demo today that was showing off an application that was designed to be a reference implementation / blueprint app. Of course it h...

A couple of pieces that I wrote on Rails appeared on IBM at the end of last year. I didn't even realize it until today when somebody ema...

I like some of Yahoo's Doug Crockford's ideas on JavaScript. So I watched this talk by him on the State of Ajax . It has a great bui...

I recently finished writing a series of four articles for IBM on GWT. You might recall that earlier this year I wrote a two - part tutorial...

Like a lot of folks, I've been curious about Powerset , the company promising to revolutionize search via natural language queries. I go...

I'm starting to write the Stocks application with Silverlight. I installed Visual Studio Orcas. That took forever. I installed the Silve...