Firefox and Proxies

Seems not a very happy combination. I use a secured proxy to access internal websites at work from home. However, I don't want to go through that same proxy to access sites on the public internet. My system runs Ubuntu 9.04. For a while, I was running two parallel browsers, one using the proxy, and the other not. (Konqueror and Firefox). But Konqueror has issues with some of the websites. I gave a try to writing a proxy-auto-config file. And it worked. On everything except Firefox. So now I'm using FoxyProxy, which was the first proxy I came across, and seems to be doing the job. If this doesn't work as planned, I'll just install a proxy server to do the job.

Javascript and MVC

Interesting article called Blurring MVC lines. It's about MVC pattern in web development. His basic concern is having to program in Javascript, which he finds obtuse. Otherwise, he praises the idea of a rich client web interface, i.e., AJAX. I can paraphrase the article as "javascript sucks, here's how you can write AJAX apps without writing javascript". Mr. Leighton also fails the full disclosure test, being a "lead developer" on Pyjamas, one of the frameworks he touts. It smacks of a bit of condenscension, that Javascript is too hard for the average developer.