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Duncan Cragg on Declarative Architectures
A Blog About...
Duncan Cragg...
...has spent the last two decades finding ways to explain that programming needn't be limited to:
Threads, Message Queues, Client-Server, CORBA, Web Services, SOAs, Agents, Synchronous Architectures and Imperative Programming
...worked for ThoughtWorks UK from April 2002 to July 2007 and now works for the Financial Times as a Web Application Architect
...is writing a book called 'The Reality Web', about our digital future
...went to both UCL and Imperial College of the University of London (in the Eighties); specialising in Logic during his MSc.
...got hooked on the idea of 'microcomputers' nearly three decades ago, then designed and built one using the 1802 chip, 512 bytes of CMOS RAM, eight switches and eight LEDs
...supports the Open Rights Group, Open Source and Freedom generally
...wonders when his LinkedIn Account will be useful
...loves Django so much he built this blog on it
...has a phone-cam, and used it on himself once, just before his weekly shave:
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The Rebels vs. the Empire...
The enemy keeps changing. Bloated 'enterprise' technology has constantly changed form to try and outwit us. First DCE, then CORBA, next J2EE and now:

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The Right Way to do Ajax is Declaratively
July 13, 2006 14:33

Don't write your interactive Web application in custom Javascript! The Web's Declarative nature needn't be broken just because you want two-way dynamic data instead of one-way documents on your site.

Instead, write Declaratively to generic Javascripts, plugins and browser features such as Hijax, hInclude, XForms, SVG, XBL, etc.   ...

 
Microformats Challenge Web Feeds and Web APIs!
June 7, 2006 19:10

Microformats are subversive: they not only challenge the approach of full-blown Semantic Web approaches, but even question fundamental Web 2.0 building blocks such as Web Feeds and Web APIs.

I recently attended XTech 2006, where there were a few talks related to Microformats.

After summarising these talks, I'll finish with my shocking revelations about the subversive nature of Microformats!   ...

 
 
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