Category Archives: One Step Forward

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Posted on December 5, 2008 by

Wherein Bill recovers his domain and says bye-bye to manual WordPress upgrades. Continue reading →

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Rails Vendor Branch Limbo

Posted on June 20, 2008 by

I’m upgrading a project from Rails 2.0.2 to Rails 2.1. This thing uses Comatose 0.8.1. Unfortunately, Comatose 0.8.1 isn’t compatible with Rails 2.1. Fine, I’ll just upgrade to Comatose 2.0 (uber-alpha) and that’ll work. Oops, Comatose 2.0 uber-alpha breaks Rails … Continue reading →

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A Curmudgeon We All Can Love

Posted on November 8, 2007 by

Douglas Crockford, purveyor of the JSONRequest spec, is cranky in a polite sort of way. He also happens to be right! Check out the video of his recent talk on The State of AJAX. Crockford takes us through a brief … Continue reading →

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Gmail Will Add Offline Mode and Sync in 2007

Posted on June 1, 2007 by

When I made this jyte claim a couple weeks ago (May 15, 2007) I believed it based solely on my personal experience of using web apps every day: A backlash is brewing against traditional thin-client web applications. Folks are tired … Continue reading →

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Rails IDE Goes Jurassic

Posted on February 13, 2007 by

About a year ago in Smalltalk Browser Goes Jurassic I lamented the fact that the Smalltalk browser UI was caught in a techno-aesthetic time warp and cheered the possibility that it might escape to the future and in doing so … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, One Step Forward, Ruby on Rails, Seaside, Smalltalk, Squeak, usability, Web as Platform | 1 Comment

The Technology Adoption-Standardization-Prevention Cycle

Posted on December 10, 2006 by

I’m trying to optimize my google reader experience, and fly through feeds as effeciently as possible. For me, this means keeping my hands on the keyboard, and off the mouse. Reader uses the j/k keys to go up and down, … Continue reading →

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The Unix tools philosophy: The Big Lie or The Big Missed Opportunity?

Posted on December 1, 2006 by

The Unix tools philosophy is so well known and oft-repeated that it has become mantra to many. As with so many habitual, memorized responses, like blessing someone after a sneeze, we rarely think deeply about the words said, and what … Continue reading →

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Smalltalk Browser Goes Jurassic

Posted on February 1, 2006 by

dabbledb is one of the two coolest web apps I’ve seen in the past month (more on the other in an upcoming post). It’s just amazing and it wouldn’t be possible without Squeak — a robust, free Smalltalk envirionment, and … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, One Step Forward, Seaside, Smalltalk, Squeak, Web as Platform | 1 Comment

Smalltalk Browser Goes Jurrasic (sic)

Posted on February 1, 2006 by

I misspelled Jurassic in my original title and slug. Here’s the corrected post.

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