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Just Shelley

Breaka de web

I finally uploaded chapter 7 for the reviewers, and was it a difficult chapter to do. The topic has to do with breaking the web with Ajax, putting it back together again, and what are known as ‘single-page’ applications. After thinking on it for days, and looking at some extraordinarily torturous ways of patching together […]

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Connecting

Rumblin’ in the Neighborhood

Melinda at Sour Duck has pointers to two interesting and oddly related stories. The first is The Dark Side of Community: The core problem is how to handle conflict in a medium that enables rapid escalation of conflict. I’m not clear on what constitutes a full-blown “blog war”, but I think the phrase isn’t necessarily helpful […]

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JavaScript

I don’t write JavaScript like it’s Ruby

I just uploaded the largest chapter, 9, and had hoped to get 10 loaded tonight, but my mind isn’t working well. Aha, I though, write in the weblog instead. This has been such a difficult book in more ways than one. The examples were huge and now, during editing, I have to find some way […]