Archives
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Deep thoughts on scientific research
Heard on France Inter the other day about scientific research funding (didn't catch the names of the authors of these quotes though):
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A nice and compact way to coerce to Boolean in JavaScript
JavaScript is always the strange beast as far as comparisons are concerned. There are cases where the automatic contextual casting is not quite convenient. For example, we like to reliably return booleans from some of our methods, not null, not undefined and not some random object. Being able to say that this function will return a boolean is a Good Thing that the users of the API will appreciate when debugging.
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ComponentArt releases Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX
Atlas has its first commercial control library. Component Art just went live with the new version of their excellent control library. All their controls now have a full client-side API built on top of the Microsoft AJAX Library. They all support UpdatePanel and persist their changes across synchronous and asynchronous postbacks. The library already has full online documentation and live samples. They are certainly setting the bar very high for other component developers. To think that they were able to do that even though we're not even in beta is just amazing and just show the level of excitement around the technology.
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Rick Strahl on ASP.NET AJAX
Rick has a very extensive post on his blog about the state of Atlas today. It's a fair and complete look at what the technology is today and what it will become in the next few months. The post is a great read that I personally enjoyed a lot because Rick is hard to please and well, he seems to be mostly pleased (which doesn't mean that we don't have a lot to do before we release, working on that).
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And the real name of Atlas will be...
Scott just announced the naming and roadmap for Atlas going forward:
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Fixing the back button in Atlas
Nikhil has an excellent prototype that adds browser history management to UpdatePanel. The two things I like the most about this sample are the simplicity of the API and that it goes beyond just restoring the back button and bookmarkability.
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What I understood in The Matrix Trilogy
(this is the translation of a French post I wrote in November 2004)