Joe Walker's Blog

App Engine and Java

The world is now split into Python programmers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and everyone else who's wondering when/if this will be available in their language or if they are going to have to change their spots. Of all the languages to

Posted: Apr. 9, 2008 03:49 PM

Commercial Support for DWR

Short version: Commercial support and development assistance is now available for DWR. Long version: SitePen has been offering support packages for a while, but you've had to ask. But it's now an advertised service, if you want help with Dojo, DWR o

Posted: Mar. 14, 2008 06:25 AM

IE8 Review

I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The h

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 02:53 PM

InfoQ Interview

InfoQ interviewed me, and asked: What are some of the major features planned for [DWR] version 3.0? When is 3.0 slated for release? Is it still sometime in June? What does the incremental release schedule look like before the final 3.0 release? Wha

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 04:13 AM

DWR + Aptana Jaxer

I've been working with the guys from Aptana for the past week or so on adapting DWR to be a remoting layer for Jaxer. Jaxer is a way to run JavaScript on the server. But it's not just JavaScript as an alternative to Java/Ruby/PHP/etc. Jaxer is Moz

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 09:29 AM

IWebMvc Preview

Jose Noheda has released a preview of a library that glues together DWR, Dojo, Spring and Hibernate/JPA. It's a 0.1 release and he's looking for feedback. Despite the name, it's not really another Web MVC framework, but more along the lines of App

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 08:16 AM

2 Wrongs Making a Right: (false && false) = true

I just had one of those times when I thought I totally lost the ability to do simple logic. Take a look at this screenshot: I'll break it down: req.readyState = 4, and batch.async = false. Last time I checked 4 = 4. So blatantly (4 != 4) is false

Posted: Feb. 28, 2008 06:43 PM

Microsoft Anti-Trust Retrospective

It was about 5 years between Netscape 4 and Mozilla 1.0. In that time, they lost about 80% market share. It was about 5 years between IE6 and IE7. In that time, they lost about 10% market share. Just in case there was any doubt about the argument t

Posted: Feb. 5, 2008 08:39 AM

The roller coaster of Open Source

Frank Zammetti, wrote this, and as I'd written bits of this, he asked me to write a forward, which goes something like this: The funny thing about getting heavily involved in an open source project is the roller coaster ride you embark on. There's

Posted: Jan. 28, 2008 07:22 AM

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