Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I don’t know about you, but the idea of ordering food online has had promise, but often falls flat. When I lived in Boulder I would order from The Sink, but they would call you back and confirm the order, which kinda defeated the point. If you don’t get a call back though, then you Read the rest…
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Laurent Nicolas has created an analytics solution, using GWT, that tracks fine grain access from users on a page. It tracks: The time spent on the site in various areas Visibility: what was visible when Content: Know if an ad was seen There is also a nifty widget that allows you to shrink and grow Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Kiichi Takeuchi has created a cheeky little site called O’Reilly Maker that let’s you create silly O’Reilly book covers in a live preview style using jQuery and Django. Surely, Tim will get these guys to rename (remember Web 2.0 conferences?). I am sure you can come up with funnier ones that I can, so add Read the rest…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Category: Dojo, RichTextWidget
, Showcase
Jeremiah Grossman is known for his amazing Web security talks. Now though, along with Lex Arquette, he has come out with a Dojo powered project (using 1.0.2) Roxer which aims to be the easiest way to make a web page: Targeted mostly for novices, where with Roxer anyone can build just about any Web page Read the rest…
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
CuePrompter (via DownloadSquad) is an browser-based teleprompt tool. Cut-and-paste some or insert some text and the application will scroll it forward or back, at your desired speed. A variant of the Ajax e-reader concept. Peeking at the source, it's been around since 2005. Implementation is small and straightforward. It works using a timer and manipulation Read the rest...
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Showcase
, UI
, Utility
Triggit has created a very interesting tool. The problem they are trying to solve is that many people want to muck around with their websites, but don't want to grok HTML. They want to integrate with services (mash them up in a manual one off way) such as insert their videos from YouTube, photos from Read the rest...
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Category: Fun, Showcase
, Sound
Scott Schiller redesigned his site for the holidays and I somehow missed it. He tends to experiment with JavaScript in this way, and this year is a great example: Move your mouse over the christmas lights (with headphones), and blow off some holiday stress! Smash -all- of the lights, and you will be.. rewarded. ;) Read the rest...
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Category: Dojo, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Peter Higgins had a little fun, and created a parody of the script.aculo.us home page: dojo.moj.oe. The site shows off the new easing code that Robert Penner contributed to Dojo: A small change in the Animation system to accommodate the inclusion of the entire set of Robert Penner's Flash easing functions to The Dojo Toolkit. Read the rest...
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Category: Showcase
We recently posted about the Ajax behind the election coverage on CNN in the states. We then heard from Bruno Braes, a developer who worked on other political Ajax fun over in Flanders, Belgium. This is a touch ironic since Belgium has been running without a new government for how many months now? :) Bruno Read the rest...
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Category: Ajax, Flash
, Rails
, Showcase
I was at the PCWorld innovative product awards at CES last night, and ran into Tastebook, a site that allows you to build a personal cookbook from both online and your grandma's recipes. The site is Rails based, and uses a mixture of JavaScript and Flash to get rich functionality such as a visual representation Read the rest...
Category: Showcase
The primaries and caucuses are here, and people want their information. CNN has an Election Center to give you that information, and it has an Ajax flavour this year: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/scripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/scripts/scriptaculous.js?load=effects" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/StorageManager.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/csiManager.js"></script> <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/main.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/election/politicsSF.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/js/2.0/election/electionCommon.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" Read the rest...
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Category: Gears, Prototype
, Showcase
Buxfer is another personal finance site, a la Mint. Todd Ritter reports: Buxfer has a few interesting features that differentiate it from the others. While it offers auto-syncing of transaction information with your banks and credit cards, budgeting, and expense analysis, Buxfer also has three key characteristics: Shared Finances - Buxfer allows you to create Read the rest...
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Category: Showcase
Photophlow is a rich interactive communication device around Flickr, created by Neil Berkman and striatic. Photophlow allows you to add Flickr streams to its chat rooms, so you can discuss away. It also integrates with Twitter. A view source shows both Prototype and Dojo under the hood, and the UI itself is quite rich. Comet Read the rest...
Peter Svensson is back in the online IDE business with a new interactive workbench called Bunkai. Peter formerly created JDA Composer which he claimed "tried to do too many things at once, and so it was hard to understand at first glance." He setup apart things with a new goal: My goal is to create Read the rest...
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Category: Showcase
iDesktop is an Ajax application that allows you to search and view YouTube videos. The viewer uses a stripped down Prototype, and a whole bunch of script to give you sliders that automatically change the layout to allow more or less content on the screen, menus, pagination, inline popups, and a lot more.
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Nick Bouton has released Protagonize, an online writers' community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the adventure, a type of collaborative fiction. Once an author writes a story, others can post branches to that story in different directions. We chatted with Nick about the new site: What was your inspiration? Early forms of this 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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Here\'s the situation:
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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