Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Category: Dojo, Programming
, Python
Django, the Python “Web Framework for Perfectionists”, is bundling Dojo for Ajax with its 0.92 release, due in out in a few weeks. The initial integration will use Dojo in the admin interface of Django, but the toolkit will be available for any part of a Django app. It was recently announced that the Java Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, Programming
, Prototype
In this article from ParticleTree they take the typical Ajax kinds of connections that everyone else is doing and “step it up a notch” by showing you how to prefetch with Ajax and the help of some JSON. On most sites, there are usually only a handful of options that can be done at any Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, Books
, PHP
, Programming
Packt Publishing will be releasing a new Ajax/PHP book this coming March (2006) – “Building Responsive Web Applications with AJAX and PHP” authored by Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea, Filip CherecheÅŸ-ToÅŸa, and Mihai Bucica. In it you will learn how to: Build a solid foundation for your next generation of web applications Use better JavaScript code Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
, Programming
Saddam Azad has a huge post over on his blog today with a pretty comprehensive list of Javascript libraries (including Prototype, AjaxAC, Moo.FX, Rico, and Zimbra). They’re seperated out into sections like “Pure JS Application libraries / Frameworks”, “PHP based AJAX Frameworks”, and “Javascript libs for Flash” with several listings underneath each. Most of the Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, Programming
On the Sys-Con Brasil site site, there’s a new tutorial posted that walks you through the creation of a drag-and-drop shopping cart system with the help of Scipt.aculo.us and <cf_srs>. We’re going to harness the power of the Scipt.aculo.us JavaScript library to provide our interaction. As their Web site states, this library “provides you with Read the rest…
The Zimbra team posted about how they compress and package their CSS and JavaScript for Ajax applications. They show how Digg.com could change their home page to go from: A Current Page: Total HTTP Requests: 26 Total Size: 199246 bytes Compressed: Total HTTP Requests: 13 Total Size: 70040 bytes What they do First some background Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Wrox is releasing a new Ajax related book in February – Professional Ajax. Authored by Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, the contents of the book include: * Explores the technologies behind Ajax, its various usage models and communication methods, and why the Ajax model is better than the traditional Web model * Discusses Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
A new experimental module has been created over at Apache. This module, Apache MPM event, is “an experimental variant of the standard worker MPM”. This module has the potential to bring Twisted-esque functionality within the Apache pipeline. Summary The event Multi-Processing Module (MPM) is designed to allow more requests to be served simultaneously by passing Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, Presentation
Eric Pascarello, coauthor of the book “Ajax in Action” will be giving a talk to the Washington, DC area BEA User Group the evening of February 9th, 2006. The meeting is open to anyone in the area, and will be from 6:30pm to 9pm (it’s a Thursday night) at the Embassy Suites at the Chevy Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, CSS
, HTML
, PHP
DevArticles.com has posted all three parts of a series over on their site – “Sending Email with Ajax”. It follows a step by step process of building up the client-side interface (with Ajax’s help) and the server-side code that interacts with it (in this case PHP). Part one starts the process off, talking about the Read the rest…
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Back in December we talked about hosting JavaScript on CDNs. If a thousand applications that your browser has accessed use Dojo or Prototye (or …), then you have many copies of the same file. Wouldn’t it be nice to have these on a CDN and have that take care of it? We even wanted versioning Read the rest…
Category: The Ajax Experience
The Ajax Experience conference website has launched. Ajaxian and NoFluffJustStuff Java Symposiums (NFJS) are pleased to announce The Ajax Experience 2006, the first ever conference exclusively for the Ajax community. This international event will take place May 10-12th at the beautiful Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The Ajax Experience will feature over Read the rest…
Category: Examples, JavaScript
, Utility
Peter-Paul Koch has created a new script which implements getElementsByTagNames. HTML has several related elements with distinct tag names, like h1-h6 or input, select and textarea. getElementsByTagName works only on elements with the same tag name, so you cannot use it to get a list of all headers or all form fields. The getElementsByTagNames script Read the rest…
Category: Calendar, Ruby
, Showcase
Spongecell is the latest in the long line of Ajax calendars. Its built on Ruby on Rails and uses the scriptaculous goodies, but the coolest feature is the “spongebar”. It takes a natural English pharse and figures out what appoitment to add to your calendar. So you can type in “meet over $5 flavored coffee Read the rest…
Edd Dumbill got down and wrote a two-part series on The future of HTML In this two-part series, Edd Dumbill examines the various ways forward for HTML that Web authors, browser developers, and standards bodies propose. This series covers the incremental approach embodied by the WHATWG specifications and the radical cleanup of XHTML proposed by Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
, Programming
The quirky PPK at quirksmode asks: Once you’ve succesfully fired an AJAX request, what sort of response should the server give? An XML document? An HTML snippet? A JSON string which is converted to a JavaScript object? Or something else? In this entry I’d like to discuss the three formats, with examples, and ask you Read the rest…
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