HTTP, HTML and CSS are inadequate for developing complex end user applications that have hard latency requirements, depend on more sophisticated input-output facilities or need to integrate closely with the clients computing environment. Examples...

One of the most fundamental features that Emacs is missing among all the goodness available for programmers is the support for handling software projects ie. the way TextMate or IDEs does this. Not having a quick way to navigate between files, classes,...

On this year’s RuPy I gave a talk about Metaprogramming Ruby. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to prepare the presentation exactly the way I wanted, nor did the organisators gave me enough time to present what I wanted to present. Anyway, I made...

Let’s start with a confession. I’m not a Erlang weenie, I’m not even a decent part-time Erlang hacker. But for some reason, I keep coming back to it, even through I don’t normally work in the problem domain I think Erlang is best suited for, like...

I started playing a little bit more with JavaScript recently, and one thing that bothered me was generating HTML. For example, if you have a AJAX application of any reasonable size, it probably has to change a lot of stuff inside of the various divs ...