Sweet Gig
SitePen is hiring. To be honest, SitePen is usually hiring, so why the blog post? Because I’m hiring for a SitePen R&D Associate. This isn’t your average programming job. Not only will all the work...
View ArticleOn Licensing
So you’re starting an OSS web project. At some point in the evolution of your project from a couple of files on-disk to something you’re maintaining on google code or sourceforge, you’re going to be...
View ArticleDWR Joins The Dojo Foundation, Joe Walker Joins SitePen
Dylan has the short-and-sweet writeup of what’s happening with DWR and the Dojo Foundation and Joe Walker has a bit more Q&A. I can’t really add much to the “news” bit of the news other than to say...
View ArticleKris Zyp Joins SitePen
Some time back I posted about an opening in SitePen’s R&D “group”. The responses I got back were astounding, and I couldn’t be happier that Kris Zyp is joining me to help work on things that we...
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A Lovely Box For Your Toolkit
I’m incredibly excited about the SitePen Dojo Toolbox AIR app that just launched. I’ve been using early versions for a couple of weeks now, and in that time it has earned a privileged place on my...
View ArticleJoining Google
Starting next month, I’ll be a Googler. To my great surprise, I’ve been at SitePen two and a half years. It has been nothing short of wonderful which may explain why it doesn’t feel like it has been...
View ArticleNotes To A Future Self: Getting Productive On WinXP
Windows XP is truly a horrid desktop OS, particularly if you’re a programmer. The default install contains roughly nothing useful, and even getting a development environment going requires grabbing the...
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Ending The ga.js Wait
Google Analytics is ubiquitous, not least of all because it’s better at what it does than most of the alternatives. Also, it doesn’t require any install or maintenance. And it’s free. What’s not to...
View ArticlePerspective Is Not A Liquid Asset
ZDNet has an article out discussing a study that shows that that Chrome’s (Open Source) auto-update system makes the browser more secure than the alternatives. Disclosure: Google co-authored the study....
View ArticleChrome Frame Dev Channel and Testing Gotchas
So you’re making the new shiny — ’cause that’s how you roll — and you’re thinking to yourself “hrm, I’ve told users of legacy browsers to get Chrome Frame or upgrade, but there’s this new awesome...
View ArticleChrome Frame Now Stable!
Exactly a year from the original announcement, we’ve just launched a stable, ready-for-prime-time version of Chrome Frame (with MSI packages). In addition to heroic work by the whole team on improving...
View ArticleNon-Admin Chrome Frame, Now Stable!
The title says it all: you can now put a link like this in your app and users will get the stable version of either admin or non-admin Chrome Frame, depending on what rights they have on their system:...
View ArticleMisdirection
As the over-heated CSS vendor prefix debate rages, I can’t help but note the mounting pile of logical fallacies and downright poor reasoning being deployed. Some context is in order. Your Moment Of Zen...
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Origin(al) Sins
Video is now up from a talk I gave in October at OWASP’s AppSec USA conference — something of a departure from my usual speil: Origin(al) Sins – Alex Russell from OWASP AppSec USA on Vimeo. I made some...
View ArticleWhy What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong
By now you’ve seen the news about Blink on HN or Techmeme or wherever. At this moment, every pundit and sage is attempting to write their angle into the annoucement and tell you “what it means”. The...
View ArticleGetting Past “Wiki”
While i’ve been in Portland for OSCON, the world of wikis has exploded in a wash of product announcements from Jot, SocialText and MindTouch. Today I had a chance to meet the MindTouch folks on the...
View ArticleSitePen Gets A Blog
Hot in the heels of my former employer (Jot) reviving their blog from the dumpster of disuse and market-speak crap, we’ve set up a new blog for SitePen. I’m lucky to be working with some great people...
View ArticleSweet, Blessed Bandwidth
For a while now there have been flyers in the elevator of the building where we live advertising network service through the 10baseT network that was presciently added to the original design of the...
View ArticleReason #39 That Nothing Gets Written For Phones (Yet)
Moore’s Law can imply a lot of different things depending on what you place as your primary priority. If it’s raw compute power with no concern for power use or heat dissipation, you get huge boots...
View ArticleEWS Melbourne
What follows is roughly the text of a talk I gave last week at the Extensible Web Summit in Melbourne. The Point of Extensibility Mark, apparently, “volunteered” me to give a lightning talk last night...
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