I am a Technical Team Leader. I have some developers reporting to me. So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development. That's what I try to use most of the time. Yes, really. It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications. First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....
What is CHAIR? CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....
So I've started working with the Dojo Toolkit -- mostly because I ran the demo for it, and I was impressed by what it could do out of the box. It does have a very nicely featured demonstration set. I've mentioned this to some friends and colleagues, and instead of thoughts or experiences with this toolkit, I got back a whole bunch of comments about why I chose to work with Dojo and not "...
So, I'm done with twitview. Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links. The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage. Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....