Surrender by Cheap Trick

Thank you Conan for using this track to kick off your very first Tonight Show. That reminder catapulted it from a dusty vinyl in the book shelves to a spanking fresh track on the top of my playlist.

A car has nothing to do with a carpet

On comp.lang.javascript:

rf wrote:
> boss wrote:
>>  
>> I am using java language
>
> In that case you are in the wrong newsgroup.
> 
> Java has nothing at all to do with javascript, just as 
> a car has nothing to do with a carpet.

ES5 Candidate Specification

The fifth edition of ECMA-262, the industrial standard scripting language specification , which should later become the fifth edition of ISO-16262, has now reached the "Final Draft" state and will enter the testing and validation phase, on target for approval later this years.

In case you missed it, ES5 is the effort formerly known as ES3.1, and got renamed to ES5 in order to clean up the confusion with the version numbers of the different proposals, skipping the ES4 version. "ES Harmony" would therefore one day be called ES6, not ES4.

ReverseHttp and RelayHttp

" This document describes a dynamic, ReST-style means of enrolment and participation in an HTTP network. The message/http and application/http MIME types defined by RFC 2616 are used to build a dynamically-configurable "Remote CGI" service.

Joining the World Wide Web as an HTTP server has been an ad-hoc, manual process. By using the protocol defined here, programs can provide services to the Web just as easily as they request services from the Web."

" This document describes a protocol for tunnelling HTTP traffic over HTTP, with the goal of providing portable, general, securable access to the World Wide Web for programs running in restricted environments, including Javascript programs running in browsers.

The defined protocol is similar to the widely used HTTP proxying protocol, but differs in that the proxied traffic is carried over an ordinary HTTP connection; the special syntax used by an HTTP proxy is avoided here."

The best solution is that one isn't needed

Nuff said.

New Eclipse Helma plugin project

The helma4eclipse project provides a set of plugins for Eclipse, building a perspective for Helma 1.x based web app development. The features implemented so far by Franz Philipp Moser include a preferences pane, the ability to start/stop Helma from Eclipse, logging to the Eclipse console (you need to set "logdir = console" in server.properties) and the ability to browse the running apps, including their prototypes and skins, in a live outline. You can grab that very first version here .

Is the Bespin web-based code editor the ideal future ServerJS IDE?

Bespin is currently running on a python based backend, but I can see this project as a likely candidate for a backend implemented using the future standard library that the ServerJS group is attempting to build. Bespin together with Firebug and an integrated remote Rhino-Debugger seems capable of turning the web browser into the perfect Client-/Server-JavaScript IDE.

>>> Server-Side Javascript Standard Library