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Tales from the Smart Client

John Gossman's observations on Avalon development

RichClient bubbling along...this time in Java

First a ServerSide article I've managed to miss (it's been up since August 2004) about Java...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 02/23/2005

Ajax architecture ... a little bit of rich client

Basically use JavaScript to fetch XML data from a web page and cut down the roundtrip....

Author: JohnGossman Date: 02/21/2005

Updated XAML samples for CTP Build

At Joe's House o'Xaml.

Author: JohnGossman Date: 02/16/2005

Microsoft employees buy iPods, oh my!

https://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66460-2,00.html I would like to disclose that I own an iPod and...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 02/02/2005

PropertyTriggers in Avalon

My colleague Joe Marini has written a much needed introduction to PropertyTriggers. Another...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/27/2005

Mini-Microsoft's most enjoyable post in a while

The posting is very insider, but if you work at any company of significant size you'll probably know...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/27/2005

Working on a XAML parser

In the large, I can't yet tell the world what I'm working on (hint, PDC). But the past few weeks...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/25/2005

I'm a client guy...in case you hadn't noticed.

All this web stuff is just soooooo... confusing.

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/25/2005

Blogs.Msdn.Com infrastructure?

For obvious PR-ish reasons, Microsoft encourages employees to have public blogs. For obvious ego-ish...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/25/2005

Wiki Spam and Page Rank

Within 15 minutes of my last post, Bob pointed out that the purpose of Wiki Spam is to increase the...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/23/2005

Ruby.Net and Wiki Spam

For relaxation purposes (yes, I am a geek) I've been playing with dynamic programming languages:...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/23/2005

Enabled comments

Curious how long before I get comment spam.

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/22/2005

Avalon topics to watch

Avalon has made an enormous amount of progress in the nearly 3 years I have been working with it....

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/22/2005

Amazon Developer's Conference

Came across the AWS blog coverage of the Amazon Developer's Conference. It's a very different...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/21/2005

Changes in Test

Microsoft announced it was laying off 62 testers today.I don't know the details of this layoff, and...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/20/2005

Microsoft's AntiSpyware Strategy

Hmmmm...Kinda hard to tell what the business plans are, but this at least rhymes with what I wrote:...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/15/2005

The future of AntiVirus and AntiSpyware

Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal reviewed the beta AntiSpyware program from Microsoft. The...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/15/2005

IdeaBlade is part of ObjectWare

Looking through some more papers at IdeaBlade, I found ObjectWare references. I briefly did a...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/12/2005

Maxi-Microsoft -- How do we grow?

As much as I would enjoy tooling around Redmond on a bulldozer, I think it is fair to say...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/12/2005

Good set of papers about Rich (Smart) Client Internet Applications

I know next to nothing about IdeaBlade or their products, but the white papers are right on target:...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/12/2005

Off topic?

My last post is not intended to be typical of this blog. I pride myself on technical knowledge and...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/09/2005

Maxi-Microsoft

Mini-Microsoft is always an interesting read, for the pure uniqueness of its iconoclasm, and the odd...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 01/09/2005

CSS considered dangerous

Another day, I'm going to comment on the design of the Avalon styling model, which was largely...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/22/2004

Amazon client based on XUL

Devon Strawn points out a very interesting app built with XUL:...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/22/2004

The picture...

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Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/21/2004

Doug Purdy at Applied XML Dev Conf

Day 2 Doug Purdy from the Indigo team is talking about versioning web services. He mentioned it was...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/21/2004

XML for Naval Missiles

Whit Kemmey from the DOD is a very humorous presenter. His problem domain is extreme: describe...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

Don Box at Applied XML Conf

No surprise: Don was excellent. The structure of his talk was "What XML related standards would I...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

This is different...

We've got a DOD representative here talking about software for Naval Missile Guidance. Haven't seen...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

Software Quotes

Had not seen https://www.softwarequotes.com until Tim Bray referred to it. My favorite so far is...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

Chris Anderson at Applied XML Developer's Conference

Chris had a hard act to follow. Tim Bray gave a really good talk, provocative and very personal (not...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

Tim Bray

Tim Bray was worth the price of admission to the conference. He basically had one message:...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

Applied XML Developer's Conference

Drove through the night from Redmond to Stevenson, Wa. to attend the Applied XML Developer's...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/20/2004

Why Avalon?

Brian states it very well Though I would like to know what he has against dancing hippos...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 10/01/2004

Where's the technical beef?

I started this blog to talk technical, and so far all I've done is fluffy human-interest stuff. Some...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/21/2004

I knew Joe Beda, Joe Beda was a friend of mine...

...but Joe Beda was not "the lead developer on Avalon". Note the key word: "the". The New York Post...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/21/2004

It's a big, scary world in here

MS is a big place. It is so big, I really don't know much about the other parts about the company...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/19/2004

What's in a name?

I recently got a new job title. I do exactly the same work, but the description has changed. But,...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/19/2004

Why Avalon?

Software developers are by nature a skeptical lot. Our scientific and mathematical training has...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/15/2004

Is the Canvas model scalable?

Miguel has a list of concerns with the Avalon architecture. I'll start with the easy ones: Canvas...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/15/2004

Introduction

I am a developer working on an unannounced Avalon-related project. Enough to say I work with the...

Author: JohnGossman Date: 09/15/2004

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