Category Archives: sitepen

Sweet Gig

SitePen is hiring. To be honest, SitePen is usually hiring, so why the blog post? Because I’m hiring for a SitePen R&D Associate. This isn’t your average programming job. Not only will all the work from this new position be released as Open Source software,it’s a self-directed research job. Combined with SitePen’s completely-virtual structure, you [...]

SitePen Gets A Blog

Hot in the heels of my former employer (Jot) reviving their blog from the dumpster of disuse and market-speak crap, we’ve set up a new blog for SitePen. I’m lucky to be working with some great people on stuff we care deeply about. From DHTML UI tricks to keeping the web an open, neutral platform, [...]

Cross Domain Comet

Cross-domain request-response via JSONP is pretty well understood these days. Well, at least among the 10 people who care. With Cometd we’re taking it one level further.

Cometd: The Long Tail of Bad Puns

Thanks to a premature Ajaxian mention there’s some real wind in the sails of Cometd, a primordial little Comet server and protocol project that I’m lucky enough to be working on. The goal of the project is to produce a content-level protocol for publish/subscribe event notification down to browsers. We need a name for the [...]