I had a fun chat today with Coté on his “make all” podcast. Here are some of the topics I remember discussing: What’s important (and what’s not important) about HTML 5 The increasing ubiquity of JavaScript Java-to-JavaScript translation technologies (e.g. GWT and JDojo) Ajax, RPC, and REST The nirvana of mobile devices plus cloud-based data [...]
Tagged ajax, cote, html5, jazz, mobile, podcast, webI know this is total n00b stuff but I always forget the particular so I thought I’d write it down in a blog entry. To add a custom scripts directory to your path, do the following: In your root directory, create a file called .bash_profile.sh with something like the following: if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; [...]
Tagged bash, code, mac, os-x, unixI hit a very annoying issue using Audible.com on my Mac with iTunes and my iPhone. I thought I’d document it in case others hit it. Setting the Stage I got a MacBook Pro in early 2009. I buy audiobooks from Audible.com and store them in iTunes. From iTunes I sync the audiobooks to my [...]
Occasionally I need to produce YouTube HD videos showing me doing something in a web browser. Up ’till now I’ve had to painfully, manually resize the browser window to 1280×720 so that the video didn’t get unnaturally shrunk or expanded by my screencast rendering software. Tonight I figured out a way to automatically resize my [...]
Tagged applescript, mac, safari, tipsShortly before winter vacation, an IBM colleague contacted me to learn more about how extensibility – particularly web UI extensibility – works in the IBM Rational Jazz Platform on which I work. After typing up my response I thought it might be interesting to a broader audience so I’ve reposted it here (with some minor [...]
Don Knuth: Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.
I used to read a lot of tech books, like a an hour or two a day. Several years, several promotions, two kids, and one deteriorating eye later, I realized I wasn’t reading much anymore. The combination of work commutes / Audible.com / iPod helped me keep up with novels and non-techy non-fiction, but I [...]
I hit a JavaScript issue recently that stumped me. I’m trying to detect if the code I’m running is in an IFrame or not. It seems like the safest way to determine this would be the following comparison: if(window !== top) { var mode = “frame”; } ‘window’ of course is the global object in [...]
Between early 2006 and early this year, my team at IBM Rational and I built a framework for component-based Ajax development for use in the Rational Jazz platform. The framework’s capabilities aren’t the focus of this entry, so I’ll just list some of them briefly: A nice component model based on OSGi bundles and the [...]
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