JavaScriptr

A blog about JavaScript and other web development technologies

Most templating languages suck Ok, if your like me then you hate all templating langauges- they suck, they really suck. I hate them because I hate the rules they enforce upon me, they are slow, and they slow me down. Because of this, usually I end up making code that looks like this: UGLY: function display(data) { var output = "<div>" + data.text + "</div>"; ...

Ok, so you're probably looking for a simple example of GWT + Grizzly + Comet. Jean Francois and his buddies at JavaOne screwed us with their vague PDF. Bastards! I gotta say this, though, Jean was right, its not too hard to figure out. This implementation uses XHR long polling, glassfishv2.ur2 and grizzly comet 1.0.9. The problem: RemoteServiceServlet GWT loves POST. All RPC calls made back to your subclass of RemoteServiceServlet ...

What is Aptana? What is Jaxer? What does this have to do with JavaScript? Let me fill you in if you never heard these two words in the JavaScript community before. First, what is Aptana? Aptana Inc. is a company founded by Paul Colton back in 2005 (Paul created JRun back in the day). The company's first product is an open source JavaScript IDE called, you guessed it, Aptana which ...

The JRails library is a useful tool for programmers working on Rails. jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for JavaScript functionality using the lighter jQuery library. I plan to start programming with Rails soon so I'll definitely be adding this to my arsenal.

Jonathan Snook has a great article on 24ways.org about creating an Adobe Air application using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This is a great way for web developers who don't know much or don't care about Flash to get started. I'd like to push this further by creating a desktop app that can also live on the web. Maybe even communicate with the desktop version. You can check out Snook's article ...