July 08, 2010

PPL30 Day 24: SproutCore

I thought I would dive in to SproutCore today. Though I’m not convinced SproutCore is ultimately the answer for “How do we build blazingly fast desktop-class web applications?” it definitely...

July 07, 2010

PPL30 Day 23: Varnish

Today I’m tackling Varnish, an HTTP accelerator – or, more appropriately, a caching reverse proxy. Varnish is used by such large sites as Hulu, Twitter, Photobucket, and many, many more....

July 05, 2010

PPL30 Day 22: ZSH

Today I’ve been playing with ZSH. Many people seem to graduate to ZSH from bash, so I’d like to find out why. I am a bit worried, as I run...

July 05, 2010

PPL30 Day 21: Low Pro

Continuing the Javascript theme for the weekend, today I sat briefly with Low Pro, a library that began its life as a set of enhancements to Prototype.js. This is part...

July 03, 2010

PPL30 Day 20: MooTools

MooTools is a Javascript framework that I have heard combines the object-oriented, programmer-focused philosophy seen in Prototype.js with the ease of jQuery when working with the DOM. There are those...