Under The Fridge

I’m currently playing around a lot with web caching and performance related work (my Masters Thesis in the area is due shortly), so I’m finding quite a few interesting articles on the subject.
Currently thinking through which parts of my OASIS-Akl application needs to be session tracked, and which parts don’t. It’s not just a case [...]

Sitting at BarcampAuckland listening to an MS talk thinking I should probably revitalise this blog.
- Colin

Todays fun moment.
Being told by Internet Explorer 7 (beta) that my web application was insecure.
- Colin

One of the few really great authors has passed away. Stanislaw Lem , was one of my favourites, “The Cyberiad” being one of the first Science Fiction books I ever read.
“The King rushed forward with
all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of [...]

Is it just me, or does all the fun stuff happening nowadays with Javascript in web browsers (”AJAX“)
look exactly like all the fun stuff that was supposed to happen with Java in the mid 90’s.
I remember thinking, as I tried the HotJava web browser, that it’d let us do neat interactive web based
applications cross platform. [...]