Joe Walker

Defining The Open Web

Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab. The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers So, for example: XHTML 2.0 is

Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 07:00 AM

Lessons from Hosting a Website

You might have noticed that the getahead.org domain has been replaced by directwebremoting.org. Theres a story behind it ... 3 years ago when DWR started to be successful, I bought 2 identical servers, built them identically with the latest Debia

Posted: Jul. 22, 2008 12:46 PM

Useful Feeds

How many blog posts start with the words "Sorry I've not been blogging much recently, but I resolve to post more often from now". Such a post may be followed by some actual substance, before the silence re-starts. This is not one of those posts. Ge

Posted: May. 23, 2008 07:59 AM

Big Question for Sun

It looks from the outside as though every spare resource that Sun has is going into JavaFX. JavaFX may or may not win against Flash/Flex/Air/Silverlight/Android/Ajax, but while Sun is concentrating on FX, it doesn't appear to be giving the Java langu

Posted: May. 19, 2008 08:35 AM

App Engine and Java

The world is now split into Python programmers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and everyone else who are wondering when/if this will be available in their language or if they are going to have to change their spots. Of all the languages

Posted: Apr. 9, 2008 03:49 PM

Commercial Support for DWR

Short version: Commercial support and development assistance is now available for DWR. Long version: SitePen has been offering support packages for a while, but you've had to ask. But it's now an advertised service, if you want help with Dojo, DWR o

Posted: Mar. 14, 2008 06:25 AM

IE8 Review

I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The h

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 02:53 PM

InfoQ Interview

InfoQ interviewed me, and asked: What are some of the major features planned for [DWR] version 3.0? When is 3.0 slated for release? Is it still sometime in June? What does the incremental release schedule look like before the final 3.0 release? Wha

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 04:13 AM

DWR + Aptana Jaxer

I've been working with the guys from Aptana for the past week or so on adapting DWR to be a remoting layer for Jaxer. Jaxer is a way to run JavaScript on the server. But it's not just JavaScript as an alternative to Java/Ruby/PHP/etc. Jaxer is Moz

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 09:29 AM

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