Google Wave impressions

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

So I got a Google Wave developer sandbox account. If you don't know what Google Wave is, you've probably been living under a rock, and you should go check out the aforementioned link. It has a nifty video demonstrating various parts of it. I've had time to play with it for ...

Sharing authentication over multiple sites / Single sign-on

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

At The Group, we're developing some web applications that needed to use the same user database. The applications were originally being developed with separate login for each, but I decided it would be better to share the login code across them. I investigated some ways to achieve sharing a single login ...

Does Google test with just IE and Firefox?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Ever tried using Google Spreadsheets with something else than IE or Firefox? Yeah, it doesn't work very well... Docs used to be the same, but at least something is getting better... However, the issue in Spreadsheets that stops it from working in Opera 9.5 is ridiculously simple! The JavaScript function which ...

Put Excel on the net with ASP.NET

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Remember when I introduced the idea of cloning Google Spreadsheets with ASP.NET using Excel? Well, it turns out to be a perfectly feasible task, and I have a working prototype too!

Is web application development less challenging than desktop application development?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I have heard several times that what I do is not "real programming" - web application development is supposedly less challenging than "proper" desktop application development. But is it really so?

Page2Rss and Yahoo Pipes

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

There are many RSS feeds that I've subscribed to, and some websites that I check often that don't have feeds, for example to read comics. With all the stuff in the feeds, there's also some things that I don't want to see, such as newsposts in some comic feeds that ...

Google Spreadsheets, ASP.NET and Excel

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I've lately been using Google Spreadsheets to display project costs to my clients etc., and for that it's quite nice. Quite similar to Excel, too, so it was easy to get going. What bothers me to no end, though, is that editing spreadsheets does not work in Opera at all. ...

Lively Kernel - Another waste of time?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Sun Labs recently introduced Lively Kernel, which is an attempt to treat web applications in a similar way as desktop applications are programming-wise. The Lively Kernel places a special emphasis on treating web applications as real applications, as opposed to the document-oriented nature ...