Bringing the Publish-Subscribe to a webpage near you ..
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 31st Aug, 2007
Google has opened up some new potential in their Gadgets API by allowing gadgets to communicate with one another. As you can imagine gadgets on a page can either be there or not, so communication has to be loosely coupled between the two. They achieve this using a Publish-Subscribe model (pub/sub). Designing gadget topology to [...]
Designing Webpages: Which style do you prefer?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 3rd Apr, 2007
Interesting article by Nick Usborne entitled Two Approaches to Writing Webpages. In it he talks about two distinct methods of web page creation. The first method is similar to writing a letter or a brochure. It’s the linear placing of ideas on a page till the final objective is reached. The second method he describes [...]
On the subject of errors
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 10th Feb, 2007
It’s an unavoidable fact of life that sometimes things just go wrong. Sometimes it’s due to factors in your control, sometimes it just isn’t; but things will indubitably go wrong. We tend to get judged on this sometimes, others are only human after all, but we also get judged on how we deal with such [...]
