Category Archives: javascript

Why Are We Even Having This Discussion?

October 17, 2008 – 2:47 pm

Content after the jump due to the public policy nature of the post.

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Harmony Fallout

August 15, 2008 – 1:33 am

Lets end the silly meme that “Adobe lost” or that “Microsoft won”. The game has hardly begun and it won’t be settled in a standards body anyway.

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Transition

August 8, 2008 – 2:29 pm

Two days ago I dusted off the rarely-used voting procedure for Dojo Foundation projects in order to kick off a transition that I’m very excited about: as of this afternoon, the committers of the Dojo project have elected Peter Higgins the new Project Lead for the toolkit project. I’ve had the pleasure of working with [...]

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