Panes of Glass

I’ve been thinking about web applications and where they are heading over the past few months. I’ve become a big proponent of progressive enhancement in the last year since finally leaving behind the basics of PHP to learn more about JavaScript, CSS, XForms, Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET. Since then I’ve been learning more about [...]

I was reading today on SQLServerCentral.com about SQL Server’s XQuery capabilities. I was quite fascinated. Microsoft has seemed somewhat slow on the XML uptake, so including XQuery in SQL Server 2005 was somewhat of a shock.
However, I was struck with an idea after reading the article. This type of functionality puts SQL Server on a [...]

I don’t know how many others have tried this, but trying to create a form in Rails that uses multiple models is quite a challenge. It can certainly be done, but every method I’ve come across so far requires Javascript. What’s wrong with that? Nothing, unless some of your users have Javascript disabled. If you [...]

The debate rages on between those who prefer the simplicity of HTML forms combined with scripting and those who dream of a day when everything in a web application can be written with tags. I’m talking of course about the WHATWG’s Web Forms 2.0 and W3C’s XForms standards. A great example of this debate can [...]