Fake Allen Pike: Archive

Firefox Jetpack Nears Launch →

It could be said that for many developers, the only thing that stops them from developing Firefox add-ons is that XUL is just the ugliest language in the known universe. Didn’t anybody learn the lesson of XSLT? XML-based languages are just too ugly for human eyes. But with Firefox Jetpack, developers now have the option to script Firefox using Javascript - a language that, while it may...

Nov 10th

“Advice to students: Leap in and try things. If you succeed, you can have...”

– Brian Kernighan

Nov 10th

Fake Fake Allen Pike. →

Hey, neat - Fake Fake Allen Pike is just the sort of thing that I might write, if I had been beset by sudden brain damage. I wonder if that’s how other people feel when they’re… uh… mocked online by … what appears to be some sort of chimpanzee.

Nov 7th

Friedisms →

So, it looks like Jason Fried now has a Fake Jason Fried. I bootstrap everything. New business? Bootstrap. New product? Bootstrap. New relationship? Bootstrap. The only thing I don’t bootstrap is my boots. Actual bootstraps aren’t very agile. I can only dream of one day being interesting enough to warrant a Fake Fake Allen Pike.

Nov 6th

Google Introduces Closure →

Yesterday, Google introduced Closure, the Javascript development tools behind some of their most popular applications - the behemoths that are GMail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. This is not to be confused with Clojure, the Java-compatible Lisp dialect, or the functional programming concept of “Closures”, although the nomenclature is linked in all three - Lisp and JavaScript both...

Nov 6th

Next Javascript Meetup

The second meetup of the Vancouver Javascript Development group will be on December 9th. The first meetup was great - I delivered a presentation on thick-client Javascript development frameworks, like Sproutcore, Cappucino, and the Google Web Toolkit, and Brian, Brock, and Rob from Nitobi delivered a presentation on XUI for mobile web development. The two presentations couldn’t have been...

Nov 5th

“At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers want...”

– Paul Graham

Nov 1st

GWT

apike 	: I assumed GWT dealt poorly with things like thousands of elements or IE support, since they have Google Chrome Frame for Wave
wildcard0 	: oh ya. only microsoft fanboys report bugs to google. they're prefect.
katep 	: I would say it's okay for quickly throwing together a shitty looking form
katep 	: without touching a whole lot
apike 	: Ha! They should put that on their website under testimonials

Oct 21st