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Jeff Haynie's "Introspection" Blog I read on Ryan Stewart’s blog: “Yahoo! Releases ASTRA: Set of Flash and Flex Components”. Huh? According to Yahoo!’s developer site, ASTRA stands for “ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications”. OK, I think I get it - or maybe not? So, I took a look at the components and examples on their website. What’s up with these widgets? Tree, Menu, TabBar, Autocomplete, Charts, AlertManager, AudioPlayback, Menubar OK, for example - take a look at the AlertManager. Drag around the alert box inside the flash “window”. Yeah, it clips. OK, that’s probably just because the frame size is too small. But, c’mon. I admit, I don’t get it. Why is Yahoo!, of all companies, doing this type of stuff? I get YUI. I also really dig their OpenID initiatives, ve... (more)

Right Side Up Development

Traditional Web development frameworks tightly couple the user interface (UI) and the server. This characteristic has two significant implications: Prototyping is difficult Development is server-focused Prototyping Traditional Web frameworks make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to create prototypes. The tight coupling between the UI and the server dictates that you must write and... (more)

Service Oriented UI Architecture in the world of web, desktop and mobile applications

I gave a talk last night (December 2, 2008) at the SD Forum’s Java SIG in Palo Alto, CA. The subtitle of the presentation was: “How the web has gone beyond the browser and we’re headed back to Client/Server”. I’m including the presentation slides below: SD Forum Java SIG - Service Oriented UI Architecture View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web ajax) ... (more)

AJAX Development: Scary Tales from AJAXWorld

Jeff Haynie's blog Last week, we attended AJAXWorld in San Jose and chatted with developers about some amazing innovations happening within the AJAX community. Beyond their experiences with AJAX, we wanted to uncover developers' opinions about the hottest trends in web app development and also their worst coding nightmares. In the spirit of Halloween, we compiled our findings into some ... (more)

Titanium Mobile at Mountain View JavaScript Meetup at Google

I gave a talk this week at the Mountain View JavaScript meetup hosted by Google at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Thanks to Michael Carter who hosts this event on a monthly basis. The event was also video recorded by Google and is being made available on Youtube, although I don’t yet have a URL for it. Below are my slides from the talk, available on Slideshare. Mo... (more)