Friday, August 26th, 2005
Category: Podcasts
We decided to bite the bullet, and try a new medium. Thus started the fun and games required in getting a Podcast up and running. Our first opening podcast focuses on: Introducing what we want to do with the podcast Having Dion and Ben discussing Ajaxian issues Going through recent items discussed in the Ajax Read the rest…
ObjectGraph has put up a very cool Ajaxian Dictionary that does a live dictionary search, allowing you to choose the particular dictionary… ObjectGraph also put together a nice Howto, showing the ASP.NET approach that they took to building this dictionary component.
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
Category: Articles
java.net have just published a step-by-step tutorial on writing a web chat app using DWR. The final result is a web-chat app, in about 100 lines of code – client and server. The point being how easy it is to get started with DWR. We could have gone into detail about using Scriptaculous for fancy Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Omar Shahine from the MS Hotmail team has come out talking about the new architecture for hotmail. Last summer we spent a lot of time at the white-board evaluating a number of ways to deliver a new architecture for Hotmail. We considered a number of things: Modification of the current C/C++ ISAPI architecture to support Read the rest…
Category: Articles
Brad Neuberg has written a mini-tutorial on the black art of iframes and browser history. iframes? er we get that… you may think. However, Brad gets into the differences between: simple iframe via markup <iframe id=”testFrame” src=”http://www.google.com”> </iframe> iframe programatically var testFrame = document.createElement(“IFRAME”); testFrame.id = “testFrame”; testFrame.src = “http://www.google.com”; document.body.appendChild(testFrame); Thoughts on browsers In Read the rest…
Category: Examples
Senor Bastida emailed us with his ajax examples, Spanish style. He has packaged clasic examples like google suggest, several sections of gmail, loading times, page managers etc… and all of the code is available under a GPL license. For our Spanish readers :) Ajaxian Examples
Category: Ruby
Dee Zsombor has written up How to build an AJAX-ed spellchecker with Ruby On Rails. The tutorial walks you through binding to Aspell via Ajax, and takes you step by step (from starting a fresh Rails app). Some of the Meat <!– file app/views/spell/_misspelled.rhtml –> <% suggest_div = “suggest__#{cnt}” this_span = “id__#{cnt}” %> <span id=’<%=this_span%>’> Read the rest…
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Category: Editorial
There was a lot of fuzz over the CPAINT security flaw: A security hole in a popular development tool has severe implications for a number of the Internet’s most popular applications, including Gmail, Flikr and MSN Virtual Earth. This has been taken a little far. CPAINT has been updated, so it doesn’t allow you to Read the rest…
We have great JavaScript frameworks, growing by the day, with Prototype and Dojo Toolkit. The challenge at the moment is good documentation. Sergio Pereira put together some solid Prototype documentation. Sergio goes through: the $() and $F() functions Ajax.Request Ajax.Updater Reference for prototype.js [ via Rob Sanheim ]
The Midnight Coders are at it again with their Ajax product comparison chart. The comparison compares: WebORB (Midnight Coders own offering) DWR (open source java framework Ajax.NET Sajax (PHP) and ignores others (well, there ARE a lot…. maybe Backbase should be there as another commercial offering?) As they said: I suspect people may say we’re Read the rest…
Category: Utility
A lil utility here. HashBash is an ajaxian service that looks up MD5 or SHA1 hashes.
Bitkraft Web Library was developed as a web framework that extends the Microsoft Asp.net framework to provide more dynamic user interaction via ajax and json. Bitkraft is a CLR based (.NET) web framework that allows distributed web content to be created and served in a unique fashion. It is written in C# and compiles for Read the rest…
We are hearing a lot of timewarps back to 1999/2000+, and Brad Neuberg joins in the back-think: Commercial Wikis such as SocialText and Jot have come out with in-place editing using DHTML and AJAX. Recently I was looking through some old CDs and found a project I created named OpenPortal that prototyped similar techniques…..in 1999 Read the rest…
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Category: Showcase
Ryan Petrain commented on Protopage and linked over to WinLike, a window manager for the browser: WinLIKE is the first professional Window-Manager for web browsers. With WinLIKE, developers can provide web applications, websites and portals with little windows – like you are used to from your desktop. WinLIKE is based on DHTML and is only Read the rest…
Category: Toolkit
Brendon Crawford has announced AJFORM 1.0 AJFORM is a JavaScript toolkit which simply submits data from any given form in an HTML page, then sends the data to any specified JavaScript function. AJFORM degrades gracefully in every aspect. In other words, if the browser doesn’t support it, the data will be sent through the form Read the rest…
Category: Calendar, Screencast
, Showcase
Maarten Stolte pointed me to a flash demo of a new ajaxian calendar: Hula. Hula is getting a new web interface, and it kicks ass, as this (flash) demo shows Can’t wait to check out the javascript and CSS that powers all that AJAX interaction and css fades. Pay attention to the sides of the 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
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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