May 2009
7 posts
“For messaging, the triple play appears to be cloud based storage, a web app that...”
– Cloud Based Messaging
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Introducing the New SproutCore Blog
If you follow the links in one of our blog posts today you may find the blog looks a bit different. And by different I mean generic. What’s going on?
In preparation for SproutCore 1.0, we’re planning to launch a new website. Part of our site redesign involves switching to the Tumblr blogging platform from Wordpress.
We want the SproutCore Blog to be the go-to source for discovering...
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Introducing SC.Freezable and SC.Copyable →
Following up on my earlier post about adopting ES5 conventions. One of the API changes we recently made to SproutCore 1.0 was the introduction of the SC.Freezable and SC.Copyable mixins (linked to this post).
SC.Freezable adds a freeze() method to objects that use it. In ES5 engines, this will actually freeze the object so that further modifications raise an exception. Today, it simply sets...
Analyst: ‘Dramatically’ different Apple tablet... →
Of course I have no idea if this is true, but I do think that the tablet/netbook category is destined to be huge. Most consumers who buy cheap PCs for the home do so for web browsing and email (most of which is also done through the web browser).
Web tablets have the potential to be both cheaper and more portable than a low end PC, so why would you get something else?
I predict one day web...
This great set of slides from Google covers in some detail the features coming in EcmaScript 5. ES5 offers the possibility of bringing the best out of JavaScripts, cleaning up some of the rough patches and making it generally far more useful for general purpose programming.
Best of all, ES5 is written in such a way that it can largely be decomposed back into traditional JavaScript for browsers...
Hola.
This is the new SproutCore blog. After a year of running on WordPress, we’re headed onto Tumblr because, well, its just much nicer.