Ajax with JavaScript Templates- February 26, 2005 Rich, responsive webapps using the Ajax approach are chic. I've started to think about what it would be like to develop the view part of a webapp using the Ajax concepts. In an Ajax web app the server sends back XML, and the XML is transformed to HTML in the browser. There are several ways to do this transformation: One approach is to use XSLTProcessor as described here. However, XSLT is problematic for a couple of reasons. First, not all browsers support it, and more importantly, most web...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/rinkrank/archives/000995_ajax_with_javascript_templates.h... Annotations in Ruby- February 25, 2005 A couple of days ago I wished there was a way to use annotations in Ruby. I'm writing a Ruby on Rails application that renders a lot of objects in HTML. Many of these objects are "editable" via the web interface, and in order to make it easier for the user, I wanted the web interface to have both an explanatory text and a HTML tooltip for each object's field. Because I like simple things I also like to keep things in one place (I don't want to maintain this metadata in a separate RHTML...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/rinkrank/archives/000994_annotations_in_ruby.html What Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby- February 2, 2005 Jim Weirich has written up an excellent compilation of what Javaheads should know about Ruby. I wish he had written up 2 years ago when I started to play with Ruby. Java has been my language of choice for many years. Learning Ruby has opened up my eyes about what OO, agile development and extreme productivity should be like. I'm not "converting" from Ruby to Java - I always try to use the best tool for the job at hand. Sometimes it's Java, sometimes it's .NET, sometimes it's Excel or PHP....http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/rinkrank/archives/000971_what_every_java_programmer_shoul... |