Just a follow-up on my latest post about Browser Plus: the SDK is not available.
Howdy folks,
We’re extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserPlus SDK. This first SDK and the accompanying documentation gives you all the tools you’ll need to start extending the web using BrowserPlus. Getting started is easy, you can hop […]
Archive for December, 2008
Internal Data Transfer Objects
Published by December 22nd, 2008 in books, layers, software architecture and software design. 16 CommentsOne recurrent question when it comes to real world usage of Domain Models is how to integrate the Presentation and the Business Layers. As we saw here before Layers is a disciplined approach to manage dependencies among objects. The question raised is about how to integrate the two topmost Layers in the diagram below.
I have […]
Google NativeClient and Yahoo! BrowserPlus: ActiveX Strikes Back?
Published by December 16th, 2008 in trends and web. 2 CommentsRecently the two Internet giants -Google and Yahoo!- released very interesting products focused on breaking the limits imposed by browsers. Are they revamped versions of ActiveX?
Yahoo! Browser Plus
Last October Yahoo! opened its BrowserPlus platform. It is a portable plugin platform available for Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and others. BrowserPlus plugins are made available to JavaScript […]
Layers and Exceptions
Published by December 4th, 2008 in layers, software architecture and software design. 13 CommentsProper layering is not about grouping classes but reducing complexity by managing dependencies. One thing that seems to bug a lot of people is how exceptions should be handled in a Layered architecture.
It’s interesting how this question relates to fundamental development principles like encapsulation, contracts and abstractions.
I see three types of exceptions in […]
Techcrunch has an article on how uTest, a crowdsourcing test startup, just got another round of funding. Given that funding is something hard to get these days, the fact that the company got another round is quite interesting.
uTest offers something like Amazon Mechanical Turk, but specialised in testing. You specify some requirements and restrictions and […]
