http://blog.pint.com The company blog for Pint Inc. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:00:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just in time for the season we wanted to share this with you: www.pint.com/holiday.  Feel free to check out the one we did for the San Diego Chargers: www.chargers.com/holiday2008 http://blog.pint.com/2008/12/19/seasons-greeting-from-pint/ Now that we are a day away from voting read up on our latest article on Network World.   Can the Web predict the next president?   Feel free to listen to the interview here.   http://blog.pint.com/2008/11/03/can-the-web-predict-the-next-president/ 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 ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/08/07/discovering-javascript-is-a-programming-language/ 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 ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/07/17/web-site-optimization-book-lands/ 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 ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/07/14/googles-lively-not-so-lively/ 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 ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/06/26/ajax-advancement-vaporware/ Here at the PINT blog you can see that we don't post every day - far from it.  Like most busy Web firms there are lots going on and some things take precedent.   Writing wise we are far from lazy - some of us post on personal blogs, some ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/06/13/blogs-do-they-last/ Last week (well last post since it's been a bit of time) we looked at a very common Cross Site Scripting (XSS) scenario and at a quick but powerful countermeasure, http-only cookies. This week we will delve a little deeper into the fundamental vulnerabilities that make XSS such a continuing ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/05/02/battling-xss-today-and-tomorrow-part-2/ 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 ... http://blog.pint.com/2008/03/17/ajax-the-complete-reference-truth-and-advertising/ 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 ... http://blog.pint.com/2007/12/31/delivery-drama/