Joe Walker's Blog

App Engine and Java

The world is now split into Python programmers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and everyone else who's wondering when/if this will be available in their language or if they are going to have to change their spots. Of all the languages to

Posted: Apr. 9, 2008 03:49 PM

Commercial Support for DWR

Short version: Commercial support and development assistance is now available for DWR. Long version: SitePen has been offering support packages for a while, but you've had to ask. But it's now an advertised service, if you want help with Dojo, DWR o

Posted: Mar. 14, 2008 06:25 AM

IE8 Review

I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The h

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 02:53 PM

InfoQ Interview

InfoQ interviewed me, and asked: What are some of the major features planned for [DWR] version 3.0? When is 3.0 slated for release? Is it still sometime in June? What does the incremental release schedule look like before the final 3.0 release? Wha

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 04:13 AM

DWR + Aptana Jaxer

I've been working with the guys from Aptana for the past week or so on adapting DWR to be a remoting layer for Jaxer. Jaxer is a way to run JavaScript on the server. But it's not just JavaScript as an alternative to Java/Ruby/PHP/etc. Jaxer is Moz

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 09:29 AM

IWebMvc Preview

Jose Noheda has released a preview of a library that glues together DWR, Dojo, Spring and Hibernate/JPA. It's a 0.1 release and he's looking for feedback. Despite the name, it's not really another Web MVC framework, but more along the lines of App

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 08:16 AM

2 Wrongs Making a Right: (false && false) = true

I just had one of those times when I thought I totally lost the ability to do simple logic. Take a look at this screenshot: I'll break it down: req.readyState = 4, and batch.async = false. Last time I checked 4 = 4. So blatantly (4 != 4) is false

Posted: Feb. 28, 2008 06:43 PM

Microsoft Anti-Trust Retrospective

It was about 5 years between Netscape 4 and Mozilla 1.0. In that time, they lost about 80% market share. It was about 5 years between IE6 and IE7. In that time, they lost about 10% market share. Just in case there was any doubt about the argument t

Posted: Feb. 5, 2008 08:39 AM

The roller coaster of Open Source

Frank Zammetti, wrote this, and as I'd written bits of this, he asked me to write a forward, which goes something like this: The funny thing about getting heavily involved in an open source project is the roller coaster ride you embark on. There's

Posted: Jan. 28, 2008 07:22 AM

YOUR FEEDBACK

	Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System By James Hamilton anonymous coward wrote: For those wondering that's a system76 computer in the picture.
	Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer Google News Desk wrote: Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal be...
	Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight By Judah Phillips Georges wrote: Interresting article. Where do you enable "events" in Google Analytics? http://code.go ogle.com/apis/analytics/d ocs/eventTrackerOverview. html says it's only available to Beta participants.
	ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing By Alex Fletcher Bobbi wrote: I found FAQ on this topic at the Servicemix web site to be pretty accurant about the differences between them (http://servicemix.apache .org/how-does-servicemix- compare-to-synapse.html). Only thing is Syanpse developers call it a ESB, I'm not sure if it really is (sq...
	DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! By Kevin Hoffman DreamSpark News Desk wrote: It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers.