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)
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)
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)
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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
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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)
Jeff Haynie is co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator. He started Appcelerator to provide a true open-source solution to enterprise RIA and SOA-based services development, after growing frustrated by the limited options and complexity in other solutions through his own development work. Prior to starting Appcelerator, Haynie served as co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity and CTO of eHatchery, an extension of Bill Gross? ideaLab. Haynie is an expert software developer and entrepreneur. Haynie has been active in standards development, as well as a contributor to open-source projects, including early work on JBoss. For more on Jeff Haynie, visit his blog at http://blog.jeffhaynie.us.
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