Today in New Developments
2009.11.25 21:55 · 0 comments
- Simon Willison, Django co-founder and OpenID pioneer, threw away his entire talk in favor of a new one touting the idea, design and implementation of the event-based, works-while-others-sleep, parallelizable-and-beyond server framework Node.js, where you write servers in JavaScript and they perform remarkably close to the theoretical maximum. If you still think the upper limit of what JavaScript is capable of is
innerHTML fiddling, you might need some smelling salt and a reality check.
- Restricted, semi-potent, reasonably useful
FileReader object proposed for the API of HTMLInputElement, which is to say inputs of the file persuasion. You have to pick a file as if you were to upload it at which point the script can fetch an object which can read (and not write) this file.
- It’s time to finish what we started: Bring Down IE6.
- Microsoft’s new Reactive Extensions, or Rx, reifies events of sorts in .NET but also brings along a pipeline-oriented way of thinking about and responding to asynchronous calls. It does for request-receive-assemble-repeat what queries did for data retrieval; specify what you want to happen, and it will make sure of it. Obligatory eye-opener (as all Channel 9 videos available in H.264, despite the insistence on Silverlight bullshit). Maybe the first truly new technology that Microsoft has come up with in years.
- On the other end of the scale is the predictable mea culpa. .NET 4 brings the first usable version of Entity Framework. (I like the pace of this presentation. Lots of code, good features explained with good examples and a rapid clip.)
- Poking around in Cocoa with the help of MacRuby’s
macirb.
- The Interface Builder control drag-and-drop morph effect, horribly named.
- Brent Simmons re-mad-scientistifies software development. About time, too.
- Tactile buttons on a touch screen. I’d never thought I’d thank latex and pneumatics for something.
- New Drobos put rest of SAN-to-back-virtualization industry to shame, bearded fellows off cough syrup addiction.
- Parallels launch, finally, sensible version. Competition, baby.
- Sam Ruby patches Ruby. If that doesn’t go in, this could get metaphysical.
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