As I mentioned on Saturday, this has been my first really busy week at work.

It's honestly nothing compared to some of the days and weeks I saw in 2000 (working full time for one startup-Advisortech and moonlighting for another- Boston's Weekly Dig), but it's still somewhat invigorating to go through this sort fo fire drill from time to time.
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Is there such a place? I like ajaxian for the pointers to new and interesting Ajax-y sites (it really does help me keep pace with what people are doing), but a lot of times it feels like it's the Framework News Network. I just don't care about frameworks and toolkits. I might have a vague interest in what the big boys (Prototype, Yahoo, etc) are up to in terms of releases and features, but that's the extent of it. So, instead of all that in-depth framework coverage (inclduding framework code examples), I'd like to see a more focus on plain old JavaScript. There are plenty of people writing about Javascript on the Net and there are plenty of people hand-rolling JS solutions. I want an aggregator for that stuff…

Is anyone doing that?

Alex Hopmann created XMLHTTP. Now he talks about it…

Let me second the "thanks!" that the guys from Ajaxian offer as the XMLHTTP object (and the trickle down effect on JavaScript usage in general) has made my life a little more interesting during work hours. w00t!

link via : Ajaxian

Is now up and running on the Compete.com Blog. Mouseover any of the links to see Compete Snapshot data for that particular link in the form of an Ajax-y bubble. This is the first proper install of it, so I'm basically sitting around waiting for the unseen bugs to start flowing in to make next week all hectic.

It was a fun experience getting that thing up and running. It's actually mostly JavaScript, so I was in my element most of the time, but there was some actual WordPress/PHP programming involved, as well. That was cool to do. I also learned a lot more about how WordPress works under the hood, which can't be a bad thing since I use it both here and at work.

(all apologies to, I believe, Bob Ryan, for stealing the title of this post)

The new A List Apart article, Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique, got me thinking about methods to serve content to mobile browsers. To play around with that in a real world environment (without having to wait around for a client to ask) I started to think seriously about how I want to handle serving content for mobile browsers here at Drunkenfist.com. The above article is nice in concept (especially since it works on the other end of the spectrum), but it doesn't do anything to limit the overall file sizes (in fact I imagine it adds to the size of the style sheets) or how much/what type of content is sent to the browsers. What I really want is a low overhead scheme for serving proper mobile friendly pages.
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