Every day people discover that JavaScript is a programming language.  That sounds crazy, but it’s true. For example just today it seems a reporter is pointing out that JavaScript can be trouble when it fails - http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2008/08/bad_javascript.html In this situation some miscoded JavaScript caused script based stats to go crazy,  so headline time [...]

You can always make your Web site better. I guess I should call that King’s Law since my occasional co-hort Andy King certainly believes it to be true.  To support this belief just this week Andy released an exciting new book published by O’Reilly entitled Web Site Optimization.

Now I am not just plugging for [...]

Recently Google introduced a virtual world experience called Lively which aims to provide a similar experience to what SecondLife does.  Like all good Web developer types we immediately downloaded the software to try out the new new thing and well a few hours later we report…it’s lame.
Ok lame isn’t really a very useful review so [...]

In the past few months there has been quite a stir about the latest browser releases (Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, and of course IE8) and what new features they bring.  One of the most interesting new features found in the two more popular browsers is the ability for Ajax calls to break the same origin [...]

Yes it is out! My new book Ajax: The Complete Reference (AjaxTCR) is available for purchase at Amazon and elsewhere. That clearly counts as the advertising, so now to the truth.
The truth is most certainly this isn’t a complete reference. I’d need about 10,000 pages to pull that off plus major people [...]

Delivery is far too often a second thought, that is of course until the site is swamped or crashes. Once organizations are caught in a fire they look for firemen - that’s where I come in. A few talks, articles, and promoting good delivery practices in the community puts me in the fun [...]

With the rise of Ajax lots of people are becoming quite excited about the JavaScript programming language. As skillful programmers who are new to JavaScript move beyond cutting-and-pasting snippets of code and actually begin learning something about the language, there are some common reactions that tend to emerge. We see these consistently in interactions with [...]

Infrastructure both online and offline becomes outdated or outmoded, and the core protocol of Web transmission - HTTP - is no exception. For years, Web developers have been both successful and stymied by this simple, stateless protocol. For example, consider the issue of authentication under HTTP. Basic Authentication should be familiar to [...]

So PINT was represented at the Internet Strategy Forum in Portland, Oregon with my panel seat for various Web 2.0 pitfalls and ideas. I might throw out some discussions of the talks in a few days but for now I want to give my overall impressions since they are quite clear to me.
It appears [...]

“Last night I was playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City which really does hold up to the test of time, but then I realized I love it so much because it must be written in C++. I mean all the best games are written in C or C++, only losers don’t use that language. [...]