Yes we have a new site and theme – the other one was getting a little stale. You may also notice that all of the previous posts are missing… I’m working to resolve that and will try to get those back up. That said I am accepting articles to be posted here so if you have any good ones (you know those brilliant little nuggets of code and tacit knowledge that you are dying to share) send them along to me (kuccello [a] gmail) and they will be reviewed and posted with attribution going to you of course!

FYI the next pubnite is tomorrow! September 14 @7pm – The Rhino. See you there!

- Krispy

I’ve been playing with the Javascript Geolocation API on my
iPhone and I’ve set up a Safari home page that sends the
co-ordinates of my iPhone to my server whenever the browser
is started so I can see where it’s being used.  All in
Javascript, no need for the SDK or a dev license.

Looking forward to seeing you at Ajax Pub Nite to see
what you’ve been up to.

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How does the future look for Ajax? Come along to The Rhino in Parkdale at 7 pm on Monday July 13 and join the discussion!

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Come join us at an excellent neighborhood pub for a pint while we discuss web application development, JavaScript, web standards, and whatever happened to “remote scripting”.

There is no price for admission, but there are likely to be several eeePC laptops on hand to take advantage of the free wifi (with at least one more than usual, since I picked one up last month !). There is bound to be something going on you would not want to miss!

See you all there!

Ajax Pub Nite
May 12th, 2008 @ 7pm
The Rhino (1249 Queen St. W)

Come join us at an excellent neighborhood pub for a pint while we
discuss web application development, Javascript, web standards, and
whatever happened to “remote scripting”.

There is no price for admission, but there are likely to be several
eeePC laptops on hand to take advantage of the free wifi. Perhaps this
month we can get a Helma server farm working?

Hope to see you all there!

James Newton-King has released a new version of Json.NET that apparently has a new easier syntax that allows for developer friendly querying and creation of JSON code.

Pownce (a Kevin Rose project) has released version 2.0 of their API and apologized for taking so long in getting it out. They claim that it has been made developer friendly and they hope to start to compete with twitter on the 3rd party client metric… hmm… we’ll see how that goes. It sounds to me like we are getting into the realm of GMail 2.0…

Jeff Atwood posted a hilarious storming viewpoint on DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) calling him a “Douchebag”—its a must read as Jeff calls David on “…gets off on putting other people down.”

Hot off the press it appears that Joey deVilla (Global Nerdy, The Accordion Guy)—(formerly of Tucows; NOW formerly of TSOT) has moved on to work for B5 Media! As stated this morning he has moved on… the question now is why?

Have a great day all!

Remember Monday March 10th is the next Ajax Pub Nite!

Our inaugural event last month was a big success, with roughly 25 attendees. Hopefully you’ve recovered and are looking forward to tonight’s event. Same time, same place: 7pm at The Rhino (1249 Queen St. W) and yes, you can bring your special friend.

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See you tonight!

There has been a recent surge of interest in more light weight approaches for rapid web application development, highlighted by the rise in popularity of RubyOnRails, especially amongst the Java/J2EE developer community.

But using a framework like RoR means Java developers need to learn not only a new language, but a new class library and completely different ways of working, giving up their very valuable experience and knowledge of the Java and J2EE.

Helma, a server-side Javascript web development framework offers a compelling alternative. Built on the Java platform and using technologies (Servlets, JDBC, etc) familiar to Java web application developers, it provides much of the same functionality as RoR while still letting Java developers have easy access to any Java libraries they need. Likewise, using JavaScript as the scripting language means that Java developers have a more familiar language to work with and one they may already be familiar with if they are building AJAXy, Web 2.0 style applications.

Helma is also being featured in the latest OpenExpo which looks to be shaping up to be a great event. (Note: You might need to know German to get the full value of the event – no I do not speak or understand German but google translate does a decent job)

It was also featured in a Linux Journal in and around September 2007 (I’ll post the issue when I look it up again) from it I started HelmaBlog.com which can help you get a simple feed reader project under way.

Helma is worth checking out if you are into JavaScript development. I’m working on a comparison of Helma and Grails and Groovy On Rails – we’ll see where that goes.