Month: October, 2007

Ajax Experience Trip Report

29 October, 2007 (13:25) | ajaxexperience | 2 comments

Thought I’d take a minute to post about Ajax Experience.

Before I talk about the conference, I want to talk a little bit about some really cool technology that was in the Seaport Hotel. It’s called Seaportal. Seaportal is a machine running Windows XP Embedded that provides web surfing, office applications and free Voice over IP. [...]

Heading off to Ajax Experience

22 October, 2007 (14:50) | ajaxexperience, atf, eclipse | No comments

As part of my whirlwind tour talking about the Ajax Toolkit Framework, I’ll be headed to Ajax Experience in Boston.

This presentation will be about using Eclipse for JavaScript development, with an emphasis on the work we did to embed Mozilla in Eclipse and provide access to various browser tooling, including JavaScript debugging, CSS tools, etc. [...]

ATF at Eclipse Summit Europe 2007

11 October, 2007 (02:27) | atf, eclipse, jazz, qooxdoo | No comments

If you’re wondering why I’ve been quiet, it’s because I’m at Eclipse Summit Europe 2007 in Germany demoing and talking about the AJAX Toolkit Framework. While I’m here, though, I’ve seen some interesting technology I wanted to share.

qooxdoo is a very cool looking AJAX toolkit that’s actually been around quite a while. Right now it’s [...]

Getting microformats working with web services

2 October, 2007 (13:41) | microformats, operator | 6 comments

Hey Google, Yahoo! and 30 Boxes (and others).

PLEASE create places where I can simply POST vCards or iCals or microformats or JSON or something else to your services to add contacts and calendar entries. I’m not a web app, so I can’t get an API key. And I shouldn’t have to maintain login state when [...]