http://www.nitobi.com/blogs/ Nitobi Blog Feed en_US http://blogs.nitobi.com/dave/?p=283 So I have been accepted to give a presentation at CommunityOne, which occurs the day before JavaOne on May 5. I am going to talk about JavaScript + DOM patterns. I was going to focus on the JavaScript and DOM details around some common Ajax patterns such as those covered conceptually by Michael and Bill. Any ideas would be more than welcome! Andre and I are also going to take part in the RedMonk CommunityOne festivities as much as possible as well which should certainly be a blast. This is a bit of a digression but what a sweet picture. Ryan looks badass and Cote is all choked up! ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/dave/?page_id=327 Observation of photon recycling in strain-balanced quantum well solar cells Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 213505 (2007) Progress in quantum well solar cells Thin Solid Films, July 26 2007 Advances in Bragg stack quantum well solar cells Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, May 01 2007 Efficiency Enhancement of Single Junction GAAS Solar Cells using Strain-Balanced Quantum Well Structures Under Concentration 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Volume 1, Issue , May 2006 Page(s):861 - 864 ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/dave/?p=311 After a relative leveling off of atmospheric methane levels, the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration released new figures indicating that there has been a large rise in global atmospheric methane levels over the past year. While certainly not a trend, it is something to keep an eye on. Atmospheric methane, coming from cows, landfills, forests, and melting permafrost, does last long in the atmosphere - thus the recent leveling off - however, it causes about 25 times more warming than carbon dioxide! ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2008/04/24/links-for-2008-04-25/ http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2008/04/23/links-for-2008-04-24/ Putting people first » Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Of particular interest to the readers of this blog is Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, consisting of no less than 36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman. (tags: toblog hci podcast usability free lecture stanford) Mashable’s Guide to Upcoming Web 2.0 Conferences and Events round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. Not included on this list? (tags: 2008 conferences events web... http://blogs.nitobi.com/alexei/?p=212 We use this service all the time. I used it on Nintendo.com, and I`m sure many of you could use it to. If you ever need an activity indicator, and want to be able to customize the background color, etc.. check this out: http://www.ajaxload.info/ Love the token Web2 BETA logo up in the top right corner.... http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2008/04/23/nitobi-at-javaone-and-communityone-on-javascript-design-patterns/ Dave Johnson will giving a talk on JavaScript and DOM Design Patterns at Community One. There is a hole in the current knowledge and practice of user interface development, even though most Ajax developers confront UI development on a daily basis. Although design patterns have been around for a while, little attention has been paid to the HTML Document Object Model (DOM). This presentation uses several concrete examples to explore the need for and application of DOM design patterns. This presentation shows why DOM patterns are consequential, given the complex and often misunderstood inte... http://blogs.nitobi.com/joe/?p=40 I`m certain by now that we`ve heard throughout the blogosphere about what happened to Blaine at Twitter. Regardless of the cries of "Rails doesn`t scale", it seems that this is the biggest thing to hit the Rails community since Zed`s pointless rant. Normally I don`t pay attention to most of the blogosphere, however since I know Blaine personally, and he`s someone who I can honestly say that I`ve looked up to over the past couple of years, as both a developer and as a friend, I think that the personal attacks based on a presentation where as a representative of a company, it is expected that ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2008/04/22/links-for-2008-04-23/ http://blogs.nitobi.com/alexei/?p=188 On the proverbial eve of our Q2 release I`m thinking about how far we`ve come with our components. We`ve been building components for 5 years or so now and I dont mind telling you that it took us a while to figure out that we are essentially in the business of making complicated things simple. That being the case I guess we have something in common with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Books for Dummies, Internet Dating sites, and the like. The hard part for all these guys is modeling complex real-world problems as software features, but their market success is driven by how well they package ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/joe/?p=39 OpenWebVancouver was a very interesting conference. It`ll be interesting to see all the presentations, and I enjoyed the Google Gears presentation, as well as the other presentations. I also liked the RIA with Open Standards presentation, as well as the keynotes by both Zak Graent and Tim Bray. I wish I could have seen the merb presentation again, and I regret missing Microformats, but I had other obligations in the afternoon that caused me to miss those presentations. My presentation seemed to have gone fairly well. We introduced DogOnRails and talked about OpenMesh, Meraki and FON. I... http://blogs.nitobi.com/alexei/?p=205 Someone told me about this post of Christian Cantrell`s (of Macromedia and Adobe fame) listing several incredibly handy AS3 libraries. These free open source libs are as follows: as3corelib: various utilities like advanced date parsing. as3exchangelib: talks to Exchange servers. as3nativealertlib: a modal alert that appears in its own native window. as3notificationlib: creates notification windows, and provides a layer of abstraction on top of OS-specific notifications. as3preferenceslib: manages application preference persistence, including encryption when necessary. ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/alexei/?p=204 I was amazed to discover that the old Microsoft Compiler, QuickBasic lives on in some schools and actually has a developer community around it still. I remember doing Mode13h coding in QuickBasic to make little games and whatnot. Those were the days. Interstingly, QuickBasic 4.5 is still available for download on MSDN, whereas Windows 95 is not. QuickBasic on Wikipedia QuickBasic Community Site (QuickBasic News) QuickBasic Clone (FreeBasic)  ... http://blogs.nitobi.com/joe/?p=38 It finally exists. After months of blood, sweat and tears of the FreeTheNet volunteers, we are now a society and we are ready to rock with our new Open-Mesh.com routers configured with our new firmware. We plan on being able to have the new Open-Mesh/DogOnRails routers ready for people to buy at the conference. This is pretty much what we`ve been waiting to get done for months, since this allows us to own things collectively, like network connections, and it allows us to pool our resources. I`ll have info up soon for how to buy a Co-Op membership, and what the pricing scales are like for... http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2008/04/10/european-onair-tour-wrapped-up/ Online Videos by Veoh.com You can also all the presentations from Madrid on Veoh there. More notes soon....]]> Search Nitobi sk