http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley dynamic typeof() guy Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:06:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, I came home a little late after dinner to find I've missed about an hour of tweets related to the long-anticipated DemoCamp 19. Visiting the Democamp site, I found no front-page information about the upcoming event, but there was a link to Register for DemoCamp Toronto 19. All ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2009/02/19/twitter-faster-than-a-speeding-bulletin/ After almost 7 years of uninterrupted service, Blogchat will soon be shut down. I started Blogchat right here on this blog in February of 2002. It was pretty well the first of its kind - an Ajax-style live chat (although the techniques were not called Ajax until three years and ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2009/01/08/after-7-years-of-blogchat-its-ttyl/ A few stars aligned recently and the result is fascinating. 1) I got myself 2G memory, a 320G disk and a 20" display (and a putty knife!) and upgraded my Mac Mini. Then I upgraded to Leopard and hooked up the old drive in an external USB enclosure as ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/11/22/seamless-visual-studio-on-the-mac-with-virtualbox/ The Brad Blog has a story with videos documenting electronic voting machines flipping votes. Apparently the scenario is this: Someone makes their vote for candidate X by pressing the corresponding box, but the machine puts a big green check mark against candidate Y instead. ...so far, all of the confirmed reports ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/10/27/those-flipping-vote-machines/ Interviewer: Do you agree with the Model-View-Controller pattern? Candidate: In what respect, Charlie? Interviewer: The Model -- what do you interpret it to be? Candidate: Controlling the view from the model, Charlie? Interviewer: No, the MVC software ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/09/15/when-unfamiliar-unqualified/ Via Ajaxian, Kris Zyp introduces the Dojo Cross-Site XHR Plugin registry In typical Dojo fashion, it tries the best and most robust methods but allows you to fall back to the basics where necessary, and anticipates the standards currently in development in order to make future transitions minimal. Great news! http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/08/01/cross-site-mashups-starting-to-come-together/ Yesterday I received my (complimentary) copy of Douglas Crockford's new book Javascript: The Good Parts. I read it cover-to-cover in a couple of hours. I'm sure I will re-read it cover-to-cover multiple times before I manage to absorb the full import of much of it. This book is not ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/05/14/javascript-the-good-parts/ In passing during a rant about the trajectory of ethics in the field of technical book publishing, Jem Matzan accuses the book Enterprise Ajax of being simply a vehicle to shill Nitobi, the company founded by the authors. No supporting commentary or links, just a broadside blow, in ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/05/09/unsupported-sniping-from-the-jem-report/ Michael O'Connor Clarke wishes himself a happy seventh blogday, having been blogging since March 1st, 2001. I'm only a day younger, having stumbled into the light on March 2nd of that same year. Things have evolved considerably since then and I'm blogging a lot less now, but it's quite a milestone all ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/03/03/maybe-i-should-find-a-grayer-theme/ After a long stretch of successfully avoiding getting too involved with development on a Microsoft platform, I find myself taking on the day-to-day development, debugging and support of some IIS/.NET-based applications. The apps themselves are well designed, I'm content enough to deal with C# and .NET in the ... http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2008/02/01/not-nearly-enough-rope-but-im-almost-ready-to-hang-myself/