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Love the Link

Sam Ruby comments on Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA), claiming them both excellent. But he feels the community is forgetting about the Web’s fundemental building block…the hyperlink.

The link is the glue that holds the web together. It is what differentiates the web from protocols like ftp that merely serve as [...]

Microtemplates

I’ve been researching the viability client-side MVC implementations. This would involve rendering templates from raw data on the client. I came across microtemplates which builds on the idea of microformats.

Microtemplates are templates specified in plain HTML syntax that overload the CSS class attribute to indicate how to display data.
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JavaScript Closures

I found a fairly comprehensive essay/tutorial/FAQ about closure support in JavaScript. The document provides everything from definitions, ECMAScript prototype specifications, variable scoping, and examples.

The simple explanation of a Closure is that ECMAScript allows inner functions; function definitions and function expressions that are inside the function bodes of other functions.
Javascript Closures

JavaScript on the Server?

I don’t know exactly how I feel about the idea of JavaScript executing on the server. Perhaps it is simply because JavaScript is immediately associated with web browser scripting. Other scripting lanaguges enjoy server processing success, so why not JavaScript.
Let’s track how this one goes…
Project Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment running on [...]

Jifty is Nifty

This could be huge…
Jifty