links for 2007-10-21
Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web “Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large….
Silicon Valley Turns Out to Honor Top Technologists
Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David A. Patterson […]
Prototype and jQuery: A code comparison
Remy Sharp has gone through the jQuery and Prototype frameworks, which are probably the two closest to each other, and has done a side by side comparison of the frameworks by showing you how similar things work on both.
The presentation looks into the utility functions, selectors, DOM manipulation, DOM walking, events, Ajax transport, and browser […]
I, like many others, just spent 4 days at the Web 2.0 Expo listening to how Amazon and other companies are now oh-so-two-oh and how we, the developers, should be utilizing all these mega-cool and groovy services that they offer us. Amazon are just like us, they swear! Ironically 24 hours later the news hits […]