Tag Archives: design

UI Developers? LEARN JAVASCRIPT!

I started ranting this morning on Marc Palmer’s blog in response to a post he made about the implementation of JavaScript UI frameworks as plugins to web frameworks. Marc and I have an amicable professional relationship (even though he went through a strange Toto phase), and I think it better to post my response [...]


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TDD Training

This week I’m attending Brian Button’s course on Test Driven Development. As someone who has considered himself an agile programmer for a while now, I’m finding myself more and more enlightened by the core techniques of Martin Fowler’s book, Refactoring. It is one of the texts of this course, and I can’t believe [...]


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BoxLayout vs. GridBagLayout

For as long as I’ve been programming, I’ve never liked using WYSIWYG editors to layout my GUI elements. This goes all the way back to when I was just beginning web programming and HTML markup. I paid a lot of money for the suite of Macromedia software, including Flash, Fireworks, Freehand, and Dreamweaver. [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: