I have to present a prototype in a couple hours that is really important to my job and the company I work for. I think I’m pretty well prepared, but have been trying to go through any last minute details and bug fixes to make sure nothing breaks horribly well I’m demonstrating it. It’s at…
Month: June 2007
Flex: Love and Hate
Adobe Flex 2.01 is a very good framework and it is so much better than practically any other web-based UI framework in existence today, but there are so many bugs in the code and so many restrictions that are very difficult to get around I’m locked into a love and hate relationship with it. I’m…
Is Success Good?
I know that seems like a strange question to ask, but it’s one I often ask myself. In many ways I’ve been extremely successful throughout my life, and it occurs to me that many of those successes were good successes, and many of them were bad successes. Most of the time it’s easy to tell…
The Fall of Innovation
It saddens me these days to see so few programmers that question the way things are done and simply accept as the best way to do things what is considered to be the standard. I fear innovation is being lost in this generation of developers since instead of questioning and trying to make new and…
New Session Paradigm
To be honest, this is not something I’ve considered to be a problem until I started working on the implementation in jSeamless of it. Servlet Sessions are just fine for the majority of web applications but I began to realize that they are inherently flawed conceptually. The first problem is that multiple tabs in a…
Delayed Ajax
There has long been a problem with getting information from the server to the client real-time in web applications. There are several hacks out there for making this happen, but most of them revolve around some idea of polling or server push. These have significant flaws and a while back I sat down to come…
Conforming
I’ve long procrastinated setting up a blog, but since I’m being bombarded by ideas in my head and my forum posts are becoming more and more off-topic I’ve decided to set up a blog for my random ideas and rants to at least get them out of my head.