A visit to Ajaxian revealed that two interesting javascript libraries have hit various stages of pre-production release statuses:
scripty2 alpha
Scripty2 is the next incarnation of the ever popular script.aculo.us javascript library. Some pretty nifty demos show off the capabilities of the library, so one to watch.
YUI 3.0.0 Beta 1
jQuery will probably remain my favourite javascript library, YUI is definitely worthy of anyone’s attention.
So, get out there download some new kit and get mashing.
posted on the June 26th, 2009 No Comments »
I am using Unfuddle for keeping some of my projects organised, and recently wanted to push a chat log into a unfuddle notebook so it could be discussed and reviewed by other people on the project. In unfuddle I am using Markdown syntax, which I think is fantastic. Formatting a Google chat log by simply copying and pasting from my gmail account into Unfuddle, however, needs a little help.
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posted on the June 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I just finished reading a great post on Mashable about a social media campaign run by Grasshopper. To me the campaign that grasshopper ran (read the mashable post for info) truly shows that innovation and a willingness to take a risk are what’s required to have some success in the noise of our current Web 2.x market.
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posted on the June 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
It’s been a couple of weeks now since we got our first looks at Google Wave, and the dust is starting to settle. In the process of the dust settling for me, I really started question why we aren’t already actively using a key component of Google Wave on the web. The component I am referring to is being able to comment inline (or contextually) on web content such as blog articles.
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posted on the June 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Google’s App Engine has some scheduled maintenance pretty soon (June 10th (Wednesday) at 4 PM Pacific Time). During this time, both datastore writes and the memcache will be disabled. Now, I have no problem with this – all systems need to have maintenance completed on them, and in general some of this maintenance will involve service disruption.
What I do have a problem with is the suggested way of dealing with the outage. In the scheduled maintenance announcement instructions are given on how a CapabilityDisabledError exception can be intercepted and gracefully dealt with (example code from the announcement below):
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posted on the June 10th, 2009 No Comments »
I am beginning to get some laughs out of the raft of tweets about “Google Wave is like product x, combined with product y (with a bit of product z thrown in)”. It’s only natural that people try to liken it to other things they have seen (and I know I’m doing the same thing). I think the reality is that it’s actually quite a bit different from anything we have seen before (like the afore mentioned radioactive dancing squirrel for instance).
As Google convey in their presentation they started by asking the question: “What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?” Read the rest of this entry »
posted on the June 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
