Sunday, September 25th, 2005
Category: Screencast, Toolkit
Python has always had quality web solutions. Django was an early Rails competitor, and now Kevin Dangoor has given us TurboGears. To check it out you should see the 20 minute video where Kevin builds a Wiki application. You will see TurboGears in action, including the parts and pieces that it uses: MochiKit is a Read the rest…
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Category: Editorial
We all know about the Yahoo! Mail Beta. My friends over at Internet Stock Blog reported that The New Yahoo Mail is Far Superior to Gmail according to WSJ personal technology columnist Walter Mossberg. I got an invite to the Yahoo! Mail beta myself and took it for a test drive. There is a tough Read the rest…
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Toolkit
, UI
ClearNova has announced ThinkCAP JX, which is a RAD platform for building Ajax, and J2EE applications. Features MVC Framework Integrated Visual Workbench Page Flow Designer Smart Data Binding Data Aware Components “Mock” Data Prototyping Updateable DataView Content Management Checkout screen shots of the tools Resources ClearNova integrates Java and Ajax: Spurred by Ajax, the Rich Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Simply Hired is a nice clean interface that ties into all the jobs out there. It has the now ubiquitous ajax rating system, and also lets you click and go with “map it” and “search it” for each job. Later on you click on the mapped and saved tabs to get a drop down for Read the rest…
Category: Articles
IBM developerWorks has a nice introductory article on Ajax for Java developers. The page-reload cycle presents one of the biggest usability obstacles in Web application development and is a serious challenge for Javaâ„¢ developers. In this series, author Philip McCarthy introduces a groundbreaking approach to creating dynamic Web application experiences. Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Read the rest…
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Category: Showcase
Common Times has launched the beta of their Ajax Personal Front Page. Register, and log in to see the “customize” links. Click on customize to see the drop down, make some changes, and apply them. There is also an Ajax tag browser Common Times is a social bookmarking community for news readers.
Category: Component
Hakan Bilgin has created Wordcomplete, a component that allows you to add autocomplete in words in a text area. Hot Keys Up Arrow: Previous match Down Arrow: Next Match TAB: Accept suggested word ESC: Toggles the auto complete Word Complete auto completes words based on the characters the user has typed and shows them by Read the rest…
Brad Neuberg has gone off experimenting with the combination of Ajaxian techniques, and the browser history (back and forward). Issues The following major issues affect all of the AJAX history libraries I have evaluated, other than the Really Simple History framework. First, some history frameworks, such as Dojo, use JavaScript objects to store an internal Read the rest…
Category: Workshop
Adaptive Path and Ajaxian have teamed up to provide an Ajax workshop. The first workshop, Designing and Building Ajax, will take place in Chicago on December 8th, 2005. Workshop Information The impact of Ajax for Web applications covers a wide range of issues: business strategy, technology, design, team structure and processes are all potentially affected Read the rest…
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
Category: .NET, Ajax
, Presentation
More and more content is coming out of Redmond. Microsoft’s Channel 9 has put up a couple of Ajaxian videos. Firstly, we have Scott Isaacs on MSN DHTML Foundation, where Scott starts off showing us that yes. Microsoft invented Ajax ;) Oh, and that it isn’t Ajax. It is DHTML. You can’t blame him can Read the rest…
Category: IE, JavaScript
, Utility
At Microsoft PDC, we heard about the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta, which is like the Firefox Web Developer extension that every web developer has in their back pocket. IE Developer Toolbar The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Toolkit
Bindows is a full desktop application framework, within the browser. Bindows is in the same class of dev frameworks of SmartClient.com, where you want an application to look and feel exactly like a rich desktop app, versus a webby app. Bindows Software Development Kit (SDK) You get access to an SDK to build Bindows-based applications. Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
fileNice 1.0 has been released. fileNice is a simple remote file browser, using PHP on the backend, and Ajaxian techniques on the web tier. Features Folder specific slideshows of images (without page reloads). File details Send to Flickr Folder comments Search Prefs based sorting Source viewing of code Live demo of fileNice in action Download Read the rest…
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Category: Articles
Why Ajax Matters Now Jesse James Garrett has spoken to the interface designers in the crowd, writing Why Ajax Matters Now over on the Ok/Cancel site. His editorial is split in two pieces. Yes, if… to Yes In the earliest days of the Web, designers chafed against the constraints of the medium. The entire interaction Read the rest…
Category: Browsers
People have been wondering about this for awhile. Opera is now a free browser. The question is: Does anyone care? Is this going to bring Opera into the big time? What about if they had done this pre-Firefox? About the Opera Browser Already regarded as the world’s fastest, most secure browser, Opera speeds up your Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
The Ajax population will be one organized crew. The TODO list trackers keep on growing, and this time we have an opensource alternative called Tudu. There are some nice features such as showing the completion rate inline. In my opinion it would be nice if they added: Priority is just a text field, so you Read the rest…
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
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JQuery Function Not Defined?
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