Dashcode & Javascript
At work, I’ve been working with Mochikit. I don’t have a huge javascript background, mostly just fidgeting with other people’s work, so this has been pretty fun. All the toying around with javascript led me to OSX Widgets and Google desktop (widgets? whatever…I can’t keep all these names for little javascript toys straight, you know what I’m talking about…), and found the OSX “Dashcode” application for building widgets.
It’s realllllly slick. So slick, that it almost makes writing a widget not-fun. Ho-hum. Regardless, I’m definitely thinking more about fun things I can do with javascript and JSON than I have in the past. I know I’m (consistently) six months behind the curve, but that’s fine by me. Let those other suckers cut the path. The guy towards the back of the wagon train typically doesn’t blunder over a cliff, right?
