Blogs

I’ve moved my blog over to http://ambiguiti.es from now on. Over there I’ll be talking about web and mobile development, and maintain a more general blog relating to events, conferences, job postings, and other such news in the industry.

If you attended my talk at Max ‘08 and want the slides or code, get them here:

http://alexeiwhite.s3.amazonaws.com/max_presentation_08_dw_uis.zip

I’ll be giving a talk on JavaScript development in Dreamweaver CS4 a this year’s Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco. If you’re in for the conference come by and check it out! We’ll be going over a bunch of new features in DW, Spry, and some debugging stuff.

“Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver CS4” – Moscone West 2022 (2008-11-17) 3:30pm.

The other day, this book ended up on Andre’s desk from O’Reilly: slide:ology – The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations. This book is less science and more art, but it’s full of inspiration and practical advice for people giving presentations. As someone who has seen a few talks, good and bad, a lot of this book rings true. In fact I think a lot of Nancy Duarte’s philosophy is similar to Edward Tufte, who is also a great presenter in his own right and a philosopher of the art of presenting – except maybe for the idea the Powerpoint is a tool to be tamed rather than one to be left out entirely.

Pick up a copy here.

Brian brought this post to my attention [read]. The general story (as I understand it) is this:

One of the MooTools developers, a guy named Olmo, gave a brief talk on the framework, during which he compared it to JQuery, Prototype, and others. This talk was taped, and you can watch it [here]. So in his talk he kindof says he doesn’t really look at the other frameworks that much because he doesn’t have time or whatever.. and he’s more interested in MooTools.. fair enough.

At any rate, he makes some untrue statements about JQuery in particular.. probably out of general not-knowingness, and does a little trashtalking. This got noticed.. some guys complained, and then #@$& hit the fan. Olmo’s been ousted from the Mootools dev team subsequently.. and got totally slammed in the process (in a very public way).

So here’s my take. I think some sort of an apology or correction was definitely in order. It should have come from Olmo, not Valerio. And if Valerio had to do it because Olmo wouldn’t, then I sortof think it’s interesting he slammed Olmo as bad as he did.. I mean this isn’t the first time there’s been a little inter-framework trashtalking. I sortof think when that happens we should just dust ourselves off and keep going. Besides, with respect to Resig, jQuery and all them who I totally respect too, what he said wasn’t really even that bad – not bad enough to get canned anyway.

Can’t we all just get along?

I just finished giving a talk at the Google Web Toolkit conference in San Fran on JavaScript. Thanks to everybody for coming and for participating! Incase you are looking for my slide deck or source code you can find it here: http://www.nitobi.com/gwt/