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