Author Archive: Lindsey Simon
Email: lsimon@finetooth.com
Hello, I\'m Lindsey Simon - user interface developer for FineTooth in Austin, TX. I\'ve been fascinated by computers for nearly 10 years now - ever since Matt Williams handed me the Perl Llama book and said, \"Welcome to the Dark Side\". I serve on the Markup and Interoperability committees in the Open Ajax Alliance and I love me some Asian cuisine, ping-pong, and rock n roll.
Last week was the second face-to-face meeting of the OpenAjax Alliance membership, fresh on the heels of the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, CA. The meeting was two-days long, with day one focused on a mix of show-and-tell, group breakout discussions, and objective proposals. Day two focussed on the future of Ajax and mobile development. The result is that the group has solidified plans to produce an event and markup scanner component for developers to help ensure framework and code compatibility as well as toolkit interoperability – i.e. say you want to use a MooTools Accordion and a Dojo Fisheye together somehow. That might actually be perverse, but anyhow you get the drift. California was beautiful and Sun has a great layout and cafeteria. The Chinese Steamed Fish was superb!
October 14th, 2006
Author: Lindsey Simon
Despite a close call where the original venue pulled out at the last minute, BarCampTexas took place without a hitch at Club Elysium in Austin, TX. The goth bar scene + noon o’clock beer + many caffeinate barcampers was both fun and educational. I heard presentations on search engine optimization, programming in Cocoa, better ways at describing user interface interactions in Visio, and some unique ways to fund ideas. I even took a crack at my presentation on the XSLDataGrid. All in all, it was cozy, initimate, and the spirit of bar camp was in full effect. We attendants are forever in debt to the hard work that Lynn Bender, Whurley, Erica, and Wordlife Productions put in to set up such an awesome un-conference.
August 27th, 2006
Author: Lindsey Simon
Just a quick link to an article I’ve been working on for awhile that started off here as a post after playing with Google’s AJAXSLT – check out: The XSLDataGrid: XSLT Rocks Ajax over at XML.com. The source code and examples are hosted here on our site, so if you have any questions or find any bugs, I’d love to hear from you!
Demos:
August 23rd, 2006
Author: Lindsey Simon
This year, the coordinators of SXSW Interactive are taking it to the streets, soliciting votes about what panel ideas seem most exciting and relevant for next year’s conference. When Shawn O’Keefe and Hugh Forrest of SXSW approached me with this concept, I got really excited about it. I put together what I hope folks will find to be an intuitive and simple user interface for choosing 10 panels and sorting them from top to bottom, using the scriptaculous Sortable. I’ve gotten feedback from some users so far and I’ve tried to implement as many of their suggestions as I could (thanks to Khoi Vinh, Gordon Montgomery, Michael Mahemoff, and some others). Head on over and pick your favorites!
I’ve got a Panel Proposal in the “browsers / web apps” category that will essentially be about a forthcoming article I’m working on regarding using XSLT in the browser and on the server for AJAX widgets. So if that sounds interesting to you, go vote for it!
On a side note, the folks working on BarCamp mentioned the panel picker on their listserve, which my friend whurley pointed out to me. It seems like maybe this thing might have some other uses and people are interested. Feel free to download it at http://www.commoner.com/~lsimon/PanelPicker.tgz
August 16th, 2006
Author: Lindsey Simon
FineTooth is proud to announce joining the OpenAjax Alliance. A big thanks goes out to Jon Ferraiolo at IBM for getting us involved as well as attempting to organize what is quickly becoming a fragmenting technology. With so many frameworks, so many libraries, and so many vendors – all with different goals and applications – now seems like a very opportune time to try to develop some standards. Hopefully, this will empower future developers to take advantage of the trials and tribulations when considering which patterns or libraries to use in their projects. At FineTooth, we hope to offer some contributions in the Markup and Interoperability Committees. Most of the major software players seem to be throwing some weight into this endeavor too – something that makes us want to have the voice of some smaller development shops heard as the Alliance moves forward..
June 19th, 2006
Author: Lindsey Simon
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