Interview
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Category: Google
, GWT
, Interview
Frank Sommers has interviewed Scott Blum of Google on the compilation process that GWT goes through to get your Java code to convert to JavaScript. Scott answers: Could you start by giving us an overview of the GWT development process? What are the biggest differences in the JavaScript the GWT generates for the various browsers? Read the rest…
Friday, November 17th, 2006
Category: Announcements
, Interview
, JavaScript
, Library
, TIBCO
, Toolkit
TIBCO General Interface 3.2 has been officially released.This is a big release as it contains two big changes: Open Source License. Yes, GI is open source! Firefox support There are many other items of interest too, such as SVG charting, and the load time optimizations.Ben and I got to sit down with Luke Birdeau, the Read the rest…
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Category: Dojo
, Framework
, Interview
A case can be made that Dojo is the single most influential framework in the Ajax universe. Any time I talk with Ajax developers about frameworks, the discussion always turns to Dojo. I had a chance to talk with Alex Russell, one of Dojo’s creators, about the framework’s success and future. Part I of the Read the rest…
Monday, August 14th, 2006
Category: Framework
, Google
, Interview
Over at InfoQ, they have a short interview up with GWT Tech Lead Bruce Johnson. The conversation covers the motivation behind the creation of the GWT, reasons for going with a Java to Javascript compiler rather than pure Java technology in the browser, and the blooming of various third party GWT widget libraries. I thought Read the rest…
Friday, August 4th, 2006
Category: Ajax
, Interview
On the Ajax Developers Journal today, there’s a great new article posted collecting some mini-interviews they did with industry leaders asking “What’s so special about Ajax?” Now that the web is well on its way to becoming more responsive, smoother and reliable – and correspondingly more enjoyable to work with – SYS-CON Media’s AJAXWorld Magazine Read the rest…
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Category: Interview
, Usability
Over on SitePoint.com, there’s a new interview posted with usability guru Jakob Nielsen talking about some of his thoughts on Ajax, usability and advertising, and ad formats on the web. The questions range from “What do you think of the current implementations of AJAX (Google Maps, Writely, Google Suggest, Zimbra, etc.) on the Web today?” Read the rest…
Friday, May 5th, 2006
Category: Interview
, Programming
, Toolkit
The Ajax Magazine site has posted their interview with the project lead for the XAJAX project – Jared White. XAJAX is one of the very interesting AJAX implementations for PHP, easy as the project’s slogan “The easiest way to develop asynchronous Ajax applications with PHP”. Few days ago there was a release 0.2.4 and a Read the rest…
Monday, February 13th, 2006
Category: Browsers
, IE
, Interview
The Audible Ajax podcast crew will be interviewing the Microsoft Internet Explorer team in Redmond, WA later this week (for an Audible Ajax podcast episode that we’ll release later this month). As the provider of the dominant browser platform, we have a lot of questions that we’d like to ask them. But we’re also interested Read the rest…
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Category: Ajax
, Interview
, PHP
On the Ajax Magazine site today, there’s an interview with the author of the HTML_AJAX PEAR package, Joshua Eichorn. I have contacted Joshua Eichorn, author of HTML_AJAX for an interview and as promised here is the interview. I asked Joshua about AJAX, HTML_AJAX, his experience, projects, current status,future projects and much more. The interviewer (Hatem) Read the rest…
Monday, January 9th, 2006
Category: Interview
, Podcasts
, Prototype
The most popular opensource Ajax JavaScript frameworks are Dojo and Prototype/Script.aculo.us. Some of the first “wow” moments were due to the effects created by Thomas Fuchs in his Script.aculo.us library that builds on top of Prototype. Many people didn’t realise that with one line of JavaScript code they could get such a nice effect to Read the rest…
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
Category: Accessibility
, Ajax
, Interview
, Podcasts
We had a lot of fun getting up and running with the first showing of Audible Ajax. Now, we are proud to release episode 2, where Ben and I step away from the microphone as we interview Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Jesse, of course, is the voice of the infamous Ajax: A New Read the rest…
Friday, August 12th, 2005
Category: Interview
Jesse James Garrett has interviewed Eric Costello of Flickr. They discuss ideas such as: The evolution of Flickr The beginnings of Flickr as a game How the Flickr team operates The migration of some pieces from Flash to Ajax User driven development The future of Flickr