Hey folks, I’m back! After being gone for a few weeks due to a family emergency, I’m now ready and rarin’ to go. First on the agenda: getting Willowgarden Developer Preview 2 out the door! The first step in that direction is adding the code to a Subversion repository, and to that end I’ve put […]

Hey everyone! I’ve started a new video blog to be an adjunct to The Idea Basket, so sometimes when I feel like doing something more fun than typing on a keyboard, I’ll post a new video episode instead. You can watch the video on the jump, or visit this page at YouTube. This short introduction […]

I know I promised to post something last week, but I was just feeling too crummy. However, I’m much better this week and getting back into the swing of things. Man, I feel like most of June just completely disappeared on me.
Anyway, I want to give you all a status update on the two big […]

Whew, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work I have ahead of me for xajax 0.5 and Willowgarden DP2. Not that it’s particularly difficult or time-consuming compared to the work I’ve already done, but in both cases the work requires a singularly focused and specific train of thought, which is tricky to […]

Hey, I was recently interviewed by Hatem Ben Yacoub at the online AJAX Magazine, so you might want to check that out if you’d like to hear me talk more about xajax and Willowgarden. Thanks Hatem!

Hey folks, if you’re developing Web apps with PHP (4.3+ or 5+) and have been wondering how to take full advantage of all that Ajax has to offer, you owe it to yourself to check out xajax! 0.2.4 started out as a quick big-fix update and ended up containing a few really neat new feature […]

Supporting international languages via Ajax seems like it should be easy, since browsers send Ajax data using UTF-8, right? Well, it’s not that simple, because there are a large number of people out there still developing Web applications on the server using older ISO encodings (at least in the PHP world). So, with our project […]

From the news release:
We’re very pleased to present to you a major upgrade to xajax featuring a number of new features, under-the-hood improvements, and bugfixes.
Some highlights include: object support for registered functions, support for registering functions in external PHP files, pre-function and catch-all function support, optional error handling, a heavily refactored Javascript engine, a […]

There are many different architectural ways of approaching the client/server paradigm as it applies to Ajax. Mostly you can pare these differences down to two major camps:
A. Rich client/data server
B. Thin client/app server
What, you say? A rich client isn’t an HTML browser? Well, let me remind you that many of the bigger, badder Web apps […]