Stephen’s Thoughts

After an unexpected bad traffic jam at Abbeyleix, I finally made it down to Cork late Friday.  (It was only unexpected because I forgot the National Ploughing Champianships were nearby).  
The first person I met when I entered Webworks on Saturday morning was Conor O'Neill.  I don't think I have ever met anyone with so [...]

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I have decided to talk at BarCampIreland this Saturday in Cork.  I am going to talk about AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The title of the presentation is
AJAX, How a 'toilet cleaner' is improving website interaction
I have decided to pitch my presentation at a non-technical audience as I suspect that a lot of the [...]

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Google have just released AJAXSLT.
…an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications.
I'm looking forward to playing around with this.  I have being doing a lot of work with XSLT lately so it will be interesting to see how Google have married [...]

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I have been looking at yet another great tool from Google.   In true Web 2.0 style Google calendar allows people to share calendar events with on the web.  They provide an API so I am going to try to integrate my public events with my web site.
On a different note, I was at another DJMG [...]

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I just received a link in my del.icio.us inbox to this "interesting" presentation.  The subject matter is very interesting in itself but the presentation style is not your run of the mill powerpoint.
The presentation discusses a very interesting point. All web2.0 developers are looking for the following:Fast RevenuesRich UIHackable API'sCommunities
On the other end of the spectrum, [...]

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