I’ve been hacking on Google Gears, Prototype, Scriptulous, and Yahoo UI library this weekend. Very interesting stuff.

I’ve been doing these things on my own for years but its amazing to see where things like Google Gears and Prototype have taken it.

What I’m working on now is AJAX long polling. It’s an interesting technique. Running a thread pool of threads on the server that are spun up by waiting response script requests, and sleep until they get woken to respond with an update when an event happens on the server or they are about to timeout the http request. No more polling.

Doing so much desktop programming lately, I’ve had some catching up to do to see what people are to in the web domain. Next to play with is Adobe Flex and attack some Silverlight. I’m avoiding JavaFX as it seems like its already headed to be DOA.