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Favourable Reception for Coherent

I recently announced the upcoming release of Coherent 1.0 and I’ve been very pleased by the positive reception the library has received.Lots of folks have come out of the woodwork to either say they’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I guess there are more fans of the Apple development model than I [...]
New Tutorial on Writing Widgets

As the release of Coherent looms nearer, I’ve been encouraged to start writing some documentation. My first effort is up: Writing a Widget. This tutorial takes you through creating a widget using Coherent starting with raw mark up and ending with a functional (if simple) widget. Thanks to some great feedback (and encouragement) from Neil [...]
Automatic Change Notifications in Coherent

I’ve written a little bit about an exciting new feature in the Coherent library: automatic change notifications. In short, this reduces the amount of code you need to write and if your application only needs to support a Class A browser (like Safari 3 or Firefox), you can rely on JavaScript’s support for property getter/setter [...]

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