MattHicks.com — Programming on the Edge

Blog, page 6

  • The Fall of Innovation — . It saddens me these days to see so few programmers that question the way things are done and simply accept as the best way to do things what is considered to be the standard. I fear innovation is being lost in this generation of developers since instead of questioning and trying to make new and...
  • New Session Paradigm — . To be honest, this is not something I've considered to be a problem until I started working on the implementation in jSeamless of it. Servlet Sessions are just fine for the majority of web applications but I began to realize that they are inherently flawed conceptually. The first problem is that…
  • Delayed Ajax — . There has long been a problem with getting information from the server to the client real-time in web applications. There are several hacks out there for making this happen, but most of them revolve around some idea of polling or server push. These have significant flaws and a while back I sat down…
  • Conforming — . I've long procrastinated setting up a blog, but since I'm being bombarded by ideas in my head and my forum posts are becoming more and more off-topic I've decided to set up a blog for my random ideas and rants to at least get them out of my head.