John Paulett wanted to be able to define complex Python model objects, then seamlessly pass them into CouchDB and to client-side Javascript.To make this happen for objects that are beyond primitive sets he created JSON Pickle which has been used on the Universal Feed Parser, and lets you do the following:PLAIN TEXTPYTHON: >>> import jsonpickle>>> from […]
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Vladimir Vuki?evi? normally hacks on Mozilla products, but spent a little time on an experiment with IE. An experiment that looks very exciting indeed.I love canvas, and wish that it was ubiquitous. We have great wrappers out there such as dojo.gfx, but wouldn’t it be nice if canvas worked everywhere? (and the full API to […]
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Andi Gutmans of Zend has posted on a proposal for AMF support in the Zend Framework, which is being lead by the AMFPHP project leader, Wade Arnold.This ZF component will allow for client-side applications built with Flex and Adobe AIR to communicate easily and efficiently with PHP on the server-side.We are excited about this proposal […]
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JavaFX was announced at JavaOne…. in 2007, and we are now seeing a preview release.Josh Marinacci of the JavaFX team put together a post with an example that builds the following:The code for this is simply:PLAIN TEXTJAVA: package blogdemo; import javafx.scene.*;import javafx.scene.paint.*;import javafx.scene.geometry.*;import javafx.application.*;import javafx.scene.transform.*;import javafx.input.*;import javafx.animation.*;import java.lang.System; var angle = 0.0; Frame { windowStyle: WindowStyle.TRANSPARENT visible: true […]
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The first main play for IE 8 was to get developers on board, and start a conversation with us on what they are fixing, and where they are going.There were a couple of user features such as Activities and Web Slices, but you could tell they hadn’t finished there.In their latest blog post they talk […]
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4D is a commercial company that has a high level framework that sits on top of their RDBMS technology. They have a new version that allows you to access data in many new places: iPhone, Gears, HTML 5 APIs, AIR and Flex.Check out the online demos such as a drag and drop shopping cart, or […]
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In my other life as a desktop application developer (which due to a mix of Fluid, AIR, Prism, canvas, SVG, and Flash is threatening to converge on my Ajax life) I’ve long been a fan of data-binding frameworks that make it easy to have a form automatically synchronize with backing data structures, saving you from […]
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Stuart Colville has found an issue where he needed to output some JavaScript in the middle of a page, before a library that depended on it was available:The 6th Rule in Yahoo’s Performance Rules recommends placing script before the closing body tag to prevent blocking holding up the rendering of the page’s content. This works […]
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In a follow-up to our post a few days ago on parallelizing JavaScript loading and firing an event when loading is done, Stefan Hayden wrote a Prototype extension (based on onDOMReady) that makes it easy for you to execute your code when all JavaScript is loaded:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: Event.onJSReady(function () { dependent_on_external_js(); });
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I heart David Flanagan. I’m making my way through “The Ruby Programming Language” this summer. Its exhaustiveness really satisfies. But a decade ago, my programming Bible was Flanagan’s “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”. As I transitioned from a career in content to a career in code, “the Rhino book” taught me everything I needed to know […]
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