Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Attack of the Ajax form builders
Category: Ajax, Component
, JavaScript
, Showcase
, Toolkit
, UI
Rapid form development with Ajax: JotForms, FormBuilder, and Wufoo
4 rating from 137 votes
XMLHttpRequest Vs. iFrames
Category: Ajax
On Sys-Con.com, there’s a short little look at two methods of doing a lot of the same things – a comparison of Ajax versus iFrames. Should you use the old iFrame tricks or the new XMLHttpRequest? There is not better or worse when comparing these two techniques, but they are certainly different. While both of Read the rest…
3.8 rating from 95 votes
Ajax Plugin Released for jQuery
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
For all of the jQuery fans out there (or anyone, really that wants a lightweight, powerful Javascript framework), there’s been a new plugin released to integrate Ajax support into this popular package. The new AJAX plugin for jQuery is ready – and if you’re running off of the latest code, it’s already rolled in. Along Read the rest…
3.9 rating from 56 votes
Ajax homepages market review
Richard MacManus has written a nice roundup piece that reviews the various Ajax homepages, including the big guns and the new guys on the block. Richard looks at traffic, features, and strongly favours the portals with open APIs as future winners. Microsoft and Google will likely dominate this space, with Yahoo perhaps entering the market Read the rest…
4 rating from 19 votes
Mail2RSS
Category: Showcase
Zoran Juric has created a clean Ajax Mail2RSS gateway. The Ajax techniques shown allow you to get up and running in seconds.
3.5 rating from 17 votes
AJAX and Session “Race Conditions”
Category: PHP, Programming
From the SitePoint PHP Blog, there’s a new post from Harry Fuecks that talks about issues concerning race conditions and Ajax. He quotes Marc Wandschneider as saying, basically, that since PHP scripts are executed in their own little environment, there’s not so much worry about the access of more than one page at once on Read the rest…
4.1 rating from 24 votes
XML Responses and AJAX
Category: Programming, XmlHttpRequest
DevArticles has posted a new tutorial to follow their previous item working with Ajax messages and responses with help from an ActiveX object. This time, they focus on the responseXML return value from the Ajax call. If the response is XML, the responseXML represents the value derived via DOM object parsing. The reader should review Read the rest…
3.8 rating from 25 votes
Monday, February 27th, 2006
Bandzoogle.com: Web Application Developer
Bandzoogle.com, the leading website builder for bands, is looking a web application developer to join our team. We are a stable, profitable, fun and fast growing web company with a tremendously supportive user base. We are looking for a talented programmer with strong problem-solving skills who can learn and adapt quickly to new technologies. This Read the rest…
3.5 rating from 11 votes
Edge IO Launched
Category: Showcase
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch blogged about a company that he has founded called Edge IO. Edge IO is classifieds with a twist. You can post classified requests on your own blog, and Edge IO will automatically pick it up. No need fora centralized system. The UI is very nice too, and Ajax is abound. The Read the rest…
2.9 rating from 34 votes
Logahead – A Fully Buzzword Compliant Blogging Engine
Category: LiveEdit, LiveSearch
, PHP
Lots of comments have been flying around about a new completely “from the ground up” implementation of a blog that’s, as they put it, “fully buzzword compliant (AJAX, RSS, Web 2.0 – it’s all there)”. The Logahead blogging engine offers many of the regular features that blogging software provides, but has been reworked to make Read the rest…
3.4 rating from 45 votes
Ajax Scaffold Generator
Category: Prototype, Ruby
, Showcase
Richard White has created an Ajax Scaffold Generator for Ruby on Rails. This takes the default scaffolding that Rails produces, and turns it up a notch. Now your admin pages can do a lot of CRUD on the same page. The latest 2.0 version of the tool features: The generated scaffold code looks production ready: Read the rest…
4 rating from 77 votes
IntelliJ IDEA Ajax Screencast
Category: Editorial, Screencast
IntelliJ IDEA is a fantastic Java IDE that many of the Ajaxians use on a daily basis. Although their bread and butter is Java development, they started to put JavaScript functionality into their IDE, and stepped it up from being a bit of a toy, to something quite useful in IntelliJ IDEA 5.1. They have Read the rest…
4.1 rating from 25 votes
Ajax Multiplayer Chess
Category: Comet, Games
, Prototype
, Showcase
Piotr Dachtera has created a full interactive multiplayer chess server based on Ajax (using Prototype and Script.aculo.us). There is a lot going on in the game such as: Built-in chat Drag and drop of pieces Animation of pieces as they move
4.2 rating from 84 votes
Saturday, February 25th, 2006
“Future of Web Apps” Podcasts
Carson Workshops has released MP3s for the “Future of Web Apps” workshop (via Phil Dawes), which means many pleasurable listening hours about Ajax and related topics. There are also a number of blog posts linked, including these detailed notes from Simon Willison. You’ll find eight MP3s, around 40 minutes each: Shaun Inman (Mint) Tom Coates Read the rest…
4 rating from 36 votes
Friday, February 24th, 2006
Creating sortable lists with PHP and AJAX
Category: PHP, Programming
, Prototype
, UI
phpRiot has posted a tutorial that pairs PHP and Ajax together (the perfect combination?) to create sortable lists. ou might have been in a situation before where you had a list of items in your database that needed to be output in a specific order. These items could be anything: perhaps a listing of your Read the rest…
3.7 rating from 134 votes
Rich, accessible pagination with unobtrusive javascript
Category: JavaScript, Programming
, Usability
In this post on bluesmoon.blogspot.com, there’s a walk-through (complete with code) of a method for doing pagination with Ajax that’s both simple and accessible. I’ve seen a few questions about doing pagination with AJAX, and I don’t like the thought of it. It smells of accessibility problems. I’ve addressed this issue before in my own Read the rest…
3.7 rating from 14 votes
