Friday wrap-up #1
Update (Nov. 18 2006): I’ll try and do this weekly, but no guarantees.
Last thing I want to do is write another AJAX framework, but it seems that’s the only way to fully understand large-scale AJAX development. We’ll see what happens — I’ve spent a lot of time looking into Object Notations (ON) (JSON, YAML, etc.) this past week, weighing out trade-offs between run-time extensions to server side scripts. I’ve been getting a lot of people asking for another AJAX tutorial to continue from the original — I’ll try and write something soon.
This past Tuesday, I sat in on the 3rd and final Technology Showcase my 2nd line manager had organized. This one in particular was on C, C++, and Fortran Compilers. A lot of cool stuff in the works, we even got a demo (video) of the PS3 in action.
Motivated by Ryan’s idea of KeyboardCast, I made a couple suggestions to the Target Management (Remote Systems Explorer) subproject in Eclipse, about being able to execute a single shell command on multiple servers (or targets). After some discussions, agreeing to help out in specs/code/discussions, I got sucked into testing for their 1.0 release! Ah, it was ok, I had a small commitment of 2 hours.
I finally submitted my 2nd application for a patent @ IBM. Considering the backlog at the US patent office is something ridiculous like 2+ years — I have a while to wait. The patent is for a revolutionary new type of XML Parser that a manager and I came up with — that’s all I can say about it now.
Next week is the CASCON conference. Aside from the keynotes and walk-in talks, I’ve signed up for 3 workshops:
- Hands-on: Building a Ruby on Rails application with DB2 Express-C 9
- Social Computing: Best Practices
- Social Computing: How the Social Web (R)evolution is Changing the Business Landscape
I’ll also be holding a Technology Showcase @ CASCON on WDSC & JWL Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30am till 1:30pm:
WDSC JWL 3.0 in Action
This exhibit will demonstrate the rich JSF/JavaScript-based widget library JWL. Currently in the finishing stages of development, JWL will revolutionize the way users interact with applications. Widgets/abilities include full AJAX support, key press bindings, calendars, panel dialogs, panel menus, context assist, converters, and much more.
I fallen off my great quest to become an expert at object oriented design patterns — I seriously have to spend some this weekend.
