Does anyone know if there are any implementations of a Front Controller in Javascript? This could be really handy for my work on the statzen interface.
Here are the problems I am hoping to solve:
The browser’s “back button” doesn’t typically work for AJAX interfaces. The Yahoo! UI Library has a History Manager that solves this problem, [...]
There is this constant argument going on in the software development world between faster development times and faster execution times. Well written C will run faster than just about anything, but it takes forever to write. Developers can create apps in Ruby on Rails in practically no time, but the code is slow. Depending on [...]
You know that saying that goes “when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”? It is usually an easy way to talk about using the right tool for the job. However, the converse is not always true; sometimes the right tool for a job is a hammer even though you are not [...]
Ever since I have moved to a Mac I have felt like my development environment was a little lacking. Sure, OS X is UNIX, but sometimes there are tools or libraries that I want to use, but won’t compile on a Mac.
Having said that, I don’t know that there is a better text editor than [...]
Now is the wrong time to buy a new cellphone. The landscape is going to change drastically over the next few months. If you ask me there are very few safe mobile decisions these days. There are some safe bets though; lets start with those before I detail why I think it [...]
The JRuby compiler is complete. I am eager to try running statzen in JRuby.
The troubles of Twitter put doubts into the back of the mind of ever Rails developer. Sure, Basecamp doesn’t go down like that, but Twitter does and they can’t seem to be able to fix it. That may all [...]
