Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Category: Ajax
, PHP, Toolkit
Danne Lundqvist has released the first version of hsi Ajax toolkit for rich clients. It is lightweight and features automatic form validation and fields can be bound to method calls. Currently there is only a PHP backend available. Example myUser.bindParams(‘save’, ‘User_id’, ‘User_login’, ‘User_firstname’, ‘User_lastname’, ‘User_email’, ‘User_group’, ‘User_age’); … myUser.execute(‘save’); PHP piece <?php // The PHP Read the rest…
Category: Java, JavaScript, Utility
Shane Ng has releaed an open source JavaScript Obfuscator. The obfuscator is a Java program itself, and follows a set of rules: This JavaScript obfuscator removes all comments. In case there is a closure that does not end with a semi-colon, “;”, a line break will be inserted when “}” is encountered. Redundant whitespace characters Read the rest…
Monday, May 30th, 2005
Category: Ajax, Examples, Java, JavaScript
Jens Schumacher has come up with a nice example of an Ajaxian Dynamic Tasklist. It is implemented in a macro for the popular Confluence Wiki from Atlassian. I like the green check, red cross icons, and the bar showing the % of the tasks done. Very Tada.
Category: Toolkit
CFAjax is the Ajax implementation for coldfusion. It makes coldfusion method calls on server directly from HTML page using JavaScript and return backs the result to the calling HTML page. CFAjax comes with simple to use JavaScript API and simple coldfusion implementation that marshal’s the response between your CF methods and HTML page. Using CFAjax Read the rest…
Friday, May 27th, 2005
Category: Ajax, JavaScript, Library, Screencast, Showcase, Toolkit
Jon Udell of Infoworld has been publishing some very interesting screencases. His latest consists of TIBCO showing off a rich Ajaxian library / toolkit / IDE. The IDE (or Visual Authoring Toolkit) eats their dog food, as it is built on their library itself. As you watch the screencast, I think you will be impressed Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, Examples, JavaScript, Showcase
Scott Watermasysk and co put together a nice example of Ajax called Cojax. Cojax is an ajaxian source code viewer which consists of: Left hand tree structure which represents the source code files/directories On demand retrieval of particular source code, which is color coded nicely Firefox “Loading *” usability pattern It would be nice to Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, Articles, JavaScript
O’Reilly’s XML.com has a piece that discusses the magic of try {} catch(e) {} finally {}, and window.onerror = handleError. The article shows examples in the realm of Ajax, and XMLHttpRequest, but it is more generic than that (and even has Perl code ;)
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Category: Examples, JavaScript, Library
This is WICK, the Web Input Completion Kit, an evolving framework that leverages web standards such as JavaScript, DOM and CSS to facilitate textual input in form UI elements assisted by local and remote data sources. This framework strives to remain unobtrusive and preserve a form’s semantics and accessibility. The sample page shows text input Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, JavaScript, Toolkit
Gregory Wild-Smith has written about Ajax, and other toolkits such as SAJAX and Dojo weren’t for him: Anyhow, as I’m using AJAX a lot these days — both for side projects and at work — I thought I would develop a nice simple wrapper for it that does exactly what I want from it; namely Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Netflix has a nice clean web UI. Now, they are using some Ajax, with more and more usage coming all the time.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Category: Ajax, Java, Server
There is more afoot with messaging and Ajax. ActiveMQ is an open source MOM, and it now has support for Ajax. Ajax support in ActiveMQ builds on top of the REST connector for ActiveMQ which allows any web capable device to send or receive messages over JMS. Client side view On the client the web Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
A lot of people are finding that the browser address bar is the new command line. Some people embed an address bar in their start menu, which means it is always there. Michael Mahemoff talks about taking this to the next level, and Ajaxifying the Address Bar Interface. Personally, I would love a QuickSilver-esque system.
Category: Ajax, Examples
Garrison Locke has put up an Ajax Spell Checker. This is another good use of client/server. You wouldn’t want to download an entire data dictionary down to the client, and now you don’t have too :)
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
Good ole /. has another posting claiming that the AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript. Typically, the usual suspects are on the thread jumping up and down :)
Category: JavaScript
Coming from a world such as Java, developers sometimes wish they had rich threading constructs. The f(m) project has gone ahead and implemented a threading construct / library for you to use. Threading is a double edged sword though. It is very easy to shoot yourself in the foot, and it brings in a lot Read the rest…
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