Joel Varty
A software architect's thoughts from <a href="http://www.edentity.ca" style="text-decoration:underline">Edentity Web Systems</a> in Toronto, Canada. <br/> Read my personal blog here: <a href="http://joelvarty.com" style="text-decoration:underline">joelvarty.com</a>
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JavaScript Compilation: Is this what will turn the web into the new desktop?
Can we finally expect to see web browser truly competing with native apps?
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jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010
These are just genius. I especially like the one for adding an AJAX call to an asmx, which is always a pain.
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Programming for APIs
There seems to be as much or more attention paid to “Apps” these days as there is to websites. Whether it be for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Adobe AIR, Silverlight or even the (gasp) Desktop, we as “web” programmers are often called upon to implement APIs for these things.
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Thoughts on Azure – Compute, Storage and SQL
I think Azure is ready to go as a platform for a Software as a Service platform. When we think of cloud-based infrastructures, it has many pieces that make it both viable and attractive from many points of view. For one, it’s hooked tightly into a great development tool in Visual Studio 2010, and the latest SDK and Tools make it a simply process to publish to the cloud directly from the IDE.
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Adding OpenID to your own domain
This is something I’ve been pondering for a while – and this article makes it seem pretty simple.
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Azure Table Storage – don’t use slash (/) character in RowKey or PartitionKey
You’ll get the following error: “One of the request inputs is out of range.”
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Google Font API & Google Font Directory
There is a CSS element out there that looks like this:
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Google Storage for Developers…
I noticed this today and it seems to be a service that will compete with Amazon S3 and Microsoft’s Azure Blob storage.
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Using Amazon S3/Cloudfront and Encoding.com to deliver web video – step by step for iPhone/iPod/iPad…
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Microsoft’s Contribution to jQuery – Client Templating
I am interested to see the community’s response to Microsoft’s contributions to jQuery. I have been using jTemplates on and off in my apps for a while, but I will certainly check out the new templating plugins put forth by MS and explained here by Scott Guthrie.