http://www.jason-grey.com web development, mobile, service oriented architecture, flex, flash, silverlight, ajax and so on. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:04:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few collected thoughts & notes from around the web regarding what makes a good component/service. Interface - all implementations share this. Should have few methods, use data objects as return values, take primitives as inputs, throw only custom exceptions, and be very, very well documented. Implementations - implement the logic behind ... http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2008/10/01/what-makes-a-good-componentservice/ One of the products I've been working on for a number of years now is getting some visibility in a very cool way - the owner of the company is going to be exhibiting the product at the MIT EmTech conference in September this year. The product is called Evenhere - ... http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2008/06/19/evenhere-mit-emtech-conference/ I've recently finished the functionality of my first native iPhone application. Here are some thoughts: Apple makes it easy to "do the right thing" as far as the UIKit libraries go, pretty nice, and cleaner & easier than Swing or .NET in many ways. Very humanistic. Unless I'm missing something, common tasks ... http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2008/06/06/iphone-development-thoughts/ I'll be presenting development best practices in the Flex/Flash/AIR tomorrow at mn.swf camp. Check back on this post for a copy of the presentation after I'm done. Here is my presentation. http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2008/04/06/presenting-at-mnswf-camp-2008/ So, I got interested in developing an application for the iPhone, but I don't have a decent Mac to develop on. I found that the iPhone development is based on a subset of the Mac Cocoa framework. OSX came from NeXTStep. Cocoa is mostly NeXTStep libraries... hummm... how can ... http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2008/04/01/learn-objective-ccocoa-mac-osx-development-on-the-pc/ This is an embeddable from a site I did the technical architecture work for that launched recently for KMBC Kansas City, and will be rolled out to many other TV station sites soon. Give it a click to view the entire experience. http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2008/03/15/want-to-see-what-the-temperature-is-in-minneapolis/ Cool that it can work with plain JS and XML Fast rendering engine Cross platform/browser MediaElement events not great - may be due to the beta version. I'm currently working on a very simple video player in SilverLight that will be controlled via JavaScript. http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2007/07/28/first-thoughts-on-microsoft-silverlight/ One of the most important concepts you can learn is Object Oriented programming. Once OOP is mastered, learning any object style language becomes much simpler. Common OOP languages used on the web: Java, C#, as well as scripting languages such as JavaScript, and ActionScript. Check out this wikipedia article for a ... http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2006/03/20/object-oriented-programming/ Google's got another great beta out there - Google Base. It's a place for you to post your own content. They take it a step further by allowing you to define (or use predefined) content types. Each content type has a set of attributes. Then, custom search interfaces are provided ... http://www.jason-grey.com/index.php/2006/03/04/check-out-google-base/