12 Jun
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, javascript, programming
Introduction
When you roll around the web you see lots of web applications that show off some localized capability to get data from a back-end in a semi-real-time manner. The most famous is the “search suggestion” drop-down that comes off Google or Bing, and those are wonderful, but often the Javascript for the drop down [...]
Grr. Okay, so here’s the confession:
For the past eight-plus years, I have been working in a sealed greenhouse environment of web development, a veritable Biosphere II of HTML and HTTP. I’ve been writing a web-based front end for a single product, working with a limited number of graphic designs handed to me by the marketing [...]