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JavaOne 2009 Day 2 – My Input

Google Web Toolkit I started out day 2 of JavaOne attending a session on Google Web Toolkit, GWT is one of those things I do not know if I actually like. On one hand it is a cool framework that makes a lot of UI coding unecessary, but on the other hand black-box-solutions is not my [...]
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JavaOne 2009 Day 1 – My Input

After a busy day of flying (and some beers) yesterday I am at the first day of JavaOne in San Francisco today with my fellow colleagues. I am going to tweet my findings continuosly, make sure you follow me on Twitter. Below I have some short input on the sessions I attended the first day: Ajaxifying [...]
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Real World JavaScript Evolution

The History Few languages can cause such debate as JavaScript, now a days, everyone is a JavaScript-developer, but it has not always been like that during the cold years between 1999 and 2005. In the early days of JavaScript and browsers we saw some really amazing things being created client-side, and I must admit, some amazingly [...]
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GreaseMonkey Twitter Enhancer

I just published the first draft of a GreaseMonkey script for Twitter. I tweet frequently http://twitter.com/hising and sometimes I do it via the web (using Firefox) and there are some things I have come to be really annoyed about, first that the web do not automagically link hashtags to their search.So the first thing I [...]
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Is it on?

Pretty funny day today. It all started with Christian Heilmann posting this on Twitter: Another simple, but very useful and needed web site: http://ismycomputeron.com And Dion Almaer who runs Ajaxian.com followed up with the question we all had: We just need a JSON version and then we are all set! Of course Heilmann wrote a JSON API for [...]
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jQuery 1.3 Beta 2

We are getting closer to 1.3. The jQuery team has just released jQuery 1.3 Beta 2. How to provide feedback: Submit a bug to the jQuery bug tracker (you will need to create an account, first). Be sure to include a simple test case for any problem that you’re experiencing (either attach the test case or provide a [...]
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2009 is the Year of jQuery UI

I found this post by Karl Swedberg on Learning jQuery interesting. Two years ago I made the somewhat immodest claim that 2007 would be the “Year of jQuery.” Since then, jQuery’s popularity has grown in ways that none of the core contributors could have imagined. Now I’m ready to make another bold pronouncement: 2009 will be [...]
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jQuery UI, ThemeRoller and jQuery 1.3

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WP-JSON – JSON Syndication for your WordPress Blog

I have just finished a very simple plugin that enables JSON-syndication for blogs running on WordPress. You can test the output on this blog. http://frontendbook.com/feed/json/?callback=? (content-type:application/json) Find out more Plugin home Github Readme Why I think JSON is a very powerful way to syndicate content and data I think we should not need to write stupid proxies for aggregating feeds via JavaScript Opening up your [...]
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Missed GeekMeet, but got 3 from Heilmann anyway

I missed GeekMeet yesterday because I “had” to join in on the company pool tournament and free-beer thing, but lucky enough we had the opportunity to listening in on Chris Heilemann not once, not twice but three times today. He made a really good presentation for the whole department where he focused on where the web [...]
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