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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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 [...]
