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TaffyDB 1.5 and suggestions for 1.6

TaffyDB 1.5 is out with some big improvements and capabilities. To download and learn more you can go here.
I’m also looking for feedback on the feature list and suggestions for 1.6. You can see a quick summary of the proposed features on the mailing list and reply via the list or via the TaffyDB feedback […]

Taffy DB version 1.4

There as been a lot of improvements with Taffy DB since I first open sourced it on March 10th. Aside from being faster and smaller there are also a ton of new ways to search and use your data when you have it within a Taffy DB collection.
In case you missed it, Taffy DB […]

TaffyDB: A Javascript database for your browser

I’d like to take a moment to introduce something I’ve been working on a while: TaffyDB.
TaffyDB is a free (opensource) JavaScript database for Ajax applications. It works by creating a thin (under 10K) data layer within your application. You can insert, update, delete, order, loop, and query against the data layer and integrate it with […]

Enhanced Javascript Lazy Function Definition Pattern

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The lazy function definition pattern is pretty simple at heart: you have a function which does some work, caches the results through a closure variable, and then overwrites itself with a new function that simply returns the closure variable. So the first time you run a function will be the only time the […]

How to write for internet readers

In April 2007 Technorati reported that:

There are over 70 Million Weblogs.
Over 120,000 new Weblogs are created every day.
Over 1.4 million posts are published every day.
Nearly 3 million bloggers are taken advantage of tags to better categorize their content.

With all that writing, why is it that half the time I can’t figure out what any of […]

3 must read JavaScript articles

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For many a developer JavaScript is nothing more than an old, buggy, unstable, and decrypted language from yesteryear. Like a skeptical Nathanael puzzling over Jesus Christ, these developers ask the age decade old question: How can anything good come out of JavaScript? And like a modern-day Philip, a growing number of influential engineers are eagerly […]

Future of Tech: two quick interviews

Over at Download Squad I’ve posted a couple of quick interviews about up and coming changes in the tech world. The first is with Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin and covers Facebook’s apps project. The second is with Adobe’s AIR Evangelist Ryan Stewart and covered the Adobe Integrated Runtime. These a two very exciting […]

9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development

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Built in AJAX widgets. Create AJAX windows, auto complete forms, calendar popups, grids, WYSIWYG editors, and much more. All using simple ColdFusion based tags and generating industry standard solutions such as Prototype and Yahoo User Interface Javascript.

Man I wish I could have built Joe’s Goals with ColdFusion 8! Cool stuff, read more over at DownloadSquad

YUI Version 2.2.0 goes live

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Hey everyone. This post is mostly aimed at developers. I just wanted to let you know that Yahoo has launched a new version of their Yahoo User Interface with some added cool features. This is exciting to me since I used YUI to help build Joe’s Goals. I have a post up at Download Squad […]

Ian to speak in Seattle about Ajax/Yahoo User Interface

Thursday February 1st -  I’ll be speaking at the Seattle ColdFusion Users Group at 6:30 PM on the first. The topic will be the Yahoo User Inteface and Ajax. I’ll probably talk a little bit about Joe’s Goals as well as other projects I’ve worked on. If you are a developer or other interested party […]