Category Archives: opensource

Misdirection

February 15, 2012 – 4:04 pm

As the over-heated CSS vendor prefix debate rages, I can’t help but note the mounting pile of logical fallacies and downright poor reasoning being deployed. Some context is in order. Your Moment Of Zen The backdrop to this debate is that CSS is absolutely the worst, least productive part of the web platform. Apps teams [...]

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Dojo 1.3 Is Out!

March 31, 2009 – 8:52 am

Dojo 1.3 is here! (download site) If you’re already using Dojo, this should be a no-brainer upgrade. It’s out-and-out better. As a quick example, dojo.create(“tagname”, { /*properties*/ }) is now the preferred way to build DOM nodes quickly. Its simple API will be natural to anyone who has used dojo.attr(). Even better, Pete’s exciting PlugD [...]

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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 [...]

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Joining Google

November 23, 2008 – 2:48 pm

Starting next month, I’ll be a Googler. To my great surprise, I’ve been at SitePen two and a half years. It has been nothing short of wonderful which may explain why it doesn’t feel like it has been that long. When I look back at what we’ve accomplished it’s also surprising that we’ve been able [...]

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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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