Are you a boss, owner, client, or colleague who really wants to waste a major portion of my development work day, break down the team concept, bring productivity to a complete halt, or just piss me off — but you’re having difficulties finding exactly how to go about it? To assist you in being more inefficient, here are the top ten ways in which you can communicate badly. (more…)
Archive for October, 2010
10 Ways to Communicate Badly with Developers
Monday, October 18th, 2010Video: Demo of Google AppEngine and AppEngineJS
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Eugene Lazutkin gives a demonstration of Google AppEngine and AppEngineJS application cycle:
* Going over the code of a simple application
* Google AppEngine SDK
* Management
AJAX News October 2010
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Bob delivers a powerful and moving performance as he brings to you the touching, human side of Ajax News. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. But mostly you’ll just plain cry.
HTML5 Video Mysteries Explained
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010There can be a cloud of mystery surrounding new technologies. HTML5 Video is especially problematic since it is not just one technology, there are multiple codecs and file formats. When is a good time to adopt? Is it possible that you can adopt too late or too soon?
In this IBM developerWorks article, I show the progression of the early days of the Internet and choppy, “cross your fingers and hope it works” digital video to its current state of the browser vendors attempting to reclaim native video from the Adobe Flash plugin.
The idea behind HTML5 Video was simplicity… but the current result is not so simple. This article defines some of the difficult video terminology to make it easier to understand how it works, so that you can look at today’s fragmented situation and still make the best decisions for you or your company.
I’m also quite honored to have had my blog voted as best article of the week, and displayed prominently on the Web Development front page.
Article: Introduction to HTML5 Video
You may also be interested in the video and the presentation upon which this article was based.
JavaScript – It’s a Real Language!
Friday, October 1st, 2010JavaScript doesn’t get much respect. “It’s a toy!”, they say. The language has been around ever since the earliest browsers. But did you know JavaScript is a real language? It seems that only front end developers realize that it is! Where is the confusion? You have to look at the language’s origins. Traditionally, JavaScript has always been part of the browser. This absolutely has contributed to the popularity it enjoys today, but has also mischaracterized it as a toy for browsers. It has simply been used as the means to get the cool things done you can’t do with HTML alone.
