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Why FOSS is Better

You really don't want to read the train of thought that led up to this post. Even if I really remembered it clearly. Let's just something that it's been bubbling around in the back of my head for the past few weeks, and leave it at that. The main advantage of OSS has always been clear and...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 01-24-2011
Simple NoSQL (resolved...I think)

For all you avid readers who have been waiting with bated breath (I'm sure there are at least 2 of you on the planet): I found a resolution to my recent post about NoSQL options under Common Lisp . The project I was looking for seems to be Rucksack . I completely dismissed it at first, because the...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 12-07-2010
Simple NoSQL

I'm nibbling around the edges of kicking off a new project. Still doing the research and due diligence parts, but it's starting to solidify enough that I'm more or less down to picking out specific tools to at least start actually planning (how much planning winds up happening up front depends...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 12-05-2010
Broken has_key on GAE, using Cheetah Templates

The GAE developers have done something that seems incredibly stupid to me, but it probably won't seem to matter that much to anyone who hasn't been using Python for a while. They've defined a has_key() method on their ORM's Model class. What it really does is check to see if the Model...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 02-08-2009
Pyjamas on Google App Engine

Pyjamas is one of the most interesting frameworks I've run across in a long time. You write a desktop-style app (it looks a lot like something you'd do if you were lame enough to actually write WPF code instead of using the GUI to build XAML) in python, and run it through a "compiler"...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 01-22-2009
Real World Dojo part 5: Custom Components

Introduction It turns out that the file upload piece from last time (the User Feedback article) is going to be used over and over. And that I need to attach a drop-down to let the uploader specify what kind of license is associated with the file. In the dot net world, I'd be tempted to slap the code...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-28-2008
Real World Dojo part Four: User Feedback

So now we have a simple form that uses AJAX to upload a file and submits some metadata for the server to associate with that file. It doesn't really give any useful feedback, though. No real end-user's going to read the console, I'm not actually doing anything with the file upload progress...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-23-2008
Real World Dojo part Three: AJAX

When we finished up last time, we had an AJAX-ified form that uploads an image file . The problem now is that the "metadata" (the name and URL) are being completely ignored. It's ugly, but try adding them as GET variables to the upload path: It seems like I should just be able to update...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-23-2008
Real World Dojo part One: Form Validation

Real World Dojo, part One (Basic Validation) The Scenario: I’ve kind of been nibbling around the edges of Dojo for a while, but I’m at a place in this project where I really need to buckle down and learn it. Since I’m having so much trouble finding real-life examples of the basics, I figured I’d share...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-14-2008
Manipulating the DOM with Dojo

This is the area where jQuery rules the roost. Or so everything I've read tells me. So, how does Dojo stack up? Still running this in parallel with Kyle's series: Setting the contents of an element // Convenience function to hide query details var element = dojo.byId('whatever'); element...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-08-2008

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