Segmentation by Freshness
Martin Fowler’s “bliki” is often an interesting read. This recent article is very thought-provoking, offering a clever way to bridge the gap between fully dynamic and fully-static web pages. In regular...
View ArticleXSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet
A fascinating collection of possible cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities. Potentially very valuable for anyone developing a web application which allows text input. XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat...
View ArticleJavascript code prettifier
Here’s a neat little thing which I heard about on the Stackoverflow podcast. I can already think of plenty of uses for it. A general purpose code “prettifier” which detects, lays out and highlights the...
View Articlewindow.name Transport
This seems obscure, but potentially useful. It seems that the window title javascript attribute persists, even when the window it is describing changes from one URL to another. This in turn allows a...
View ArticleA few JavaScript rich UI links
SmartGWT UI component library a blogged description and another one or go to the horse’s mouth and see the project page. MochaUI is a whole desktop or content management system or something. See...
View ArticleWho needs Flash? Having fun with Canvas and SVG
Ever since the dawn of the web, the lack of a symbolic graphics format has been a glaring omission. I’ve never been very comfortable with the only option being to step outside the browser and use a...
View ArticleOptions for developing mobile apps: PhoneGap, Palm Pre, etc.
Mobile application development is certainly a hot topic at the moment. People seem to be climbing over one another to produce iPhone apps, and Google’s Android is never far from the tech news. But...
View ArticleFun with very strict TDD
I use Test-Driven Development (TDD) every day, and find it very helpful. It can be hard to get to grips with, though. I was pleased to read that acceptance-testing pundit Gojko Adzic had fun with some...
View Articleecoder – an in-browser programmers’ editor
This is a neat idea, and certainly more friendly than “keyhole surgery” with ssh and vi if you need to edit files on a remote server over the web. Does not seem to have had a lot of development...
View ArticleFreja – a JavaScript framework for in-broswer MVC applications
This looks really neat. A small JavaScript framework for setting up and running a single-page XML/XSLT application which fetches model data and view definitions from a server and combines them using...
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