OpenMocha 0.6 available for download

• Replaced individual Mocha Object macros with generic mocha object macro calls.
• Fixed an encoding bug relating to Mocha Object skins and the Wysiwyg-Editor for Content Objects.
• Added "editing" and "adding" Mocha Objects that extend the default "edit" and "add" page actions.
• Creation and modification dates are now tracked by default.
• Added loop and collect functions.
• Root object is now named "Home" during the first initialisation of an application.
• Changed makeSelectOptions to also work with a simple array of options rather than requiring value/string pairs.
• Context of "this" in Mocha Objects now refers to the object that the current request resolves to.
• Fixed a bug where the original title was replaced by the title specified for the current audience.
• The adminEmail specified in the server.properties file is now used as the default contactEmail address.
• Various minor/cosmetic bug fixes.

E4X presentation by Brendan Eich

http://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/xtech2005/e4x/

07.08.2005, 23:32

What is Mocha?

Mocha was the original project name of the very popular scripting language known as Javascript , an extremely rich, powerful and flexible programming language that has a large, highly developed syntax, a huge library of standard methods (functions) and built-in capabilities to create complex, object-oriented data structures and methods.

Because Javascript is the world's most misunderstood programming language , we will always be misunderstood when we say "Javascript". If we want others to understand Javascript as the programming language it is, we should refer to it as "Mocha".

The kind of scripting we have seen in web browsers for the last decade, I continue to call Javascript. I use the term Mocha to refer to the usage of Javascript beyond that scope, often on both the client-side and server-side and integrated with other technologies such as XML and Java, producing "Web 2.0" applications.

Do you remember Gopher?

"[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected Gopher servers to be one large distributed entity; thus, we speak of "the Gopher", with its many small parts, spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is always growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't locate it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ... The Gopher is the largest and most practical example of applied pantheism in the history of mankind." 

• gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/
• gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world
• gopher://gopher.well.com/
  

Boy, do I feel old right now!

02.08.2005, 21:42

The current.tv disappointment

When I heard that Al Gore bought the News World International channel and was planning a mix between MTV and CNN, a concept I had in the back of my mind for the last decade, I was looking forward to see how this concept would fly.

Well, current.tv is here - and while I see the mix, it's not the mix I saw. The funny thing is that they acknowledge themselves that the kind of TV they make is being replace by the Internet when they say "Right now, at this moment in history, TV is the most powerful medium in the world". My idea of a mix between MTV and CNN on the other hand would be the kind of TV that will survive the Internet. I'll carry it around with me some more.

02.08.2005, 9:02

OpenMocha Project Roadmap

The concepts OpenMocha is based on have been deployed in Mocha Objects
through versions 3, 4 and 5 for many years and are quite mature. With
OpenMocha these concepts have been moved to an open source foundation
and while OpenMocha is not yet "feature complete", the features that
are currently implemented are stable and OpenMocha 0.5 or later can be
used in production.

http://openmocha.org/openmocha /roadmap/

Coming soon: OpenMocha 0.6 as well as more documentation and examples.

01.08.2005, 12:14

MochiKit Javascript Library

• Async - manage asynchronous tasks
• Base - functional programming and useful comparisons
• DOM - painless DOM manipulation API
• DateTime - "what time is it anyway?"
• Format - string formatting goes here
• Iter - itertools for JavaScript; iteration made HARD, and then easy
• Logging - we're all tired of alert()
• Visual - visual effects and colors

27.07.2005, 12:04

>>> Getting your feet wet with OpenMocha