A recent[ly read] post reminded me about a mailing I received from Wayne Marston last week. The newsletter contained the following article on Bill C-61.

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An experimental plugin provides TiddlyWiki with a Web Application SHell.

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A few days ago S. Sriram sent an interesting addition for WASH-SE in the form of 'jsin' - a new builtin for WASH-SE. While cutting code away from the Atomic OS 1.0.x series, the version that would've become 1.1 had a similar command, modeled loosely after the linux command 'insmod.' In 1.1 the command was stored as a microfile.

Jsin/insmod's purpose is to load additional scripts (and JSON objects! =) into running web applications.

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Most of the responses that I've had in response to the WASH post revolve around one question: What's it good for?

Believe it or not, that's a really hard question to answer. Almost as soon as jsConsole was created I discovered the question should be more like What isn't it good for?

The thing is that WASH is merely an extension to Javascript. Seriously. All it does is add runtime support to applications.

Some "real-world" examples might be:

• Logging. Need a runtime bug report from your application?
• 5GL Processing. Do you like how Office suites can interoperate between applications?
• Prototyping. Like doing stuff on the fly?
• Familiarity. Want to program for the web in ways that are familiar to standard "desktop application" development?
• Ubiquity. Adds to virtually any Javascript library or browser based application.

Really, I don't know how to answer this question. When I gave the WAJAX talk at TLUG I was stumped by the question, "What's the killer app for Atomic OS?"

Quite frankly, I just don't know. The "pattern" (if you could call it such) is simply too flexible to describe.

A little late but here it is - an introduction to the Web Application SHell - Simplified Edition.

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Today's promised post on WASH-SE (the Web Application SHell - Simplified Edition) will have to wait until tomorrow due to an unexpected delay.

In it's place, I'll post up some audio projects that I've started and/or am working on. These are by no means "professional." They were fun to throw together though.

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Over the last few months my pet project "Atomic OS" has been completely refactored. And I mean completely. Right down to the very premise of the project.

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