Posted in 3 Sep 2009 ¬ 9:56 pmJoseph Scott
Phil Windley wrote about using Kynetx (his new startup) to show your last tweet on a site. My question was: why would this be better than using plain Javascript to do the same thing? Phil then wrote a follow up post to answer this question: Why Use the Kynetx Rule Language Instead of [...]
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Posted in 27 Aug 2009 ¬ 8:53 amJoseph Scott
A recent Think Vitamin article, The Definitive Guide to GET vs POST, mentioned something that I hadn’t seen before about XMLHttpRequest (XHR). Their Rule #4 states:
When using XMLHttpRequest, browsers implement POST as a two-step process (sending the headers first and then the data). This means that GET requests are more responsive – something you [...]
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Posted in 5 Aug 2009 ¬ 1:40 pmJoseph Scott
Dealing with time zones can cause some real pains. As a result when storing a date/time in an application it is standard to store the date/time as GMT. This makes it easier on the application in comparing dates, but isn’t very friendly for users. The next step is for an applications to [...]
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Posted in 10 Nov 2008 ¬ 7:00 amJoseph Scott
The first version of jQuery Edit In Place (JEIP) is ready. The UI and features basically the same as my older Prototype based edit in place code, with a few extra tidbits thrown in for good measure.
It works in the typical jQuery style, as a plugin off of the main jQuery object. Here’s [...]
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