Category Archives: Web as Platform

JavaScript-Ruby Convergence

Posted on November 3, 2006 by

You may have noticed that the latest release of Firefox (2.0) supports JavaScript 1.7.  I was curious about just what the new JavaScript features were so I did a little poking around.  It turns out that if you peel back … Continue reading →

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Ray Ozzie Demos Web App Clipboard

Posted on March 21, 2006 by

On March 7, in his talk at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Ray Ozzie, CTO Microsoft, demonstrated (short screencasts, live demo page) a method by which users can cut/copy/paste structured content between web applications and between web applications and Windows … Continue reading →

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Your Blog’s Your Identity Server With OpenID

Posted on February 19, 2006 by

XML Grrl Eve Maler pushed a string on identity standards for us long-tailers that piqued my interest in OpenID. Are you the kind of blogger who requires readers to authenticate to comment or do you allow open comments? Most blog … 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 →

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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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