Friday, July 21st, 2006
Google Paint
Google Paint is more Friday Fun :)
3.5 rating from 28 votes
Fun
Microshaft Web 2.0 Services Framework
Category: Fun
Since it is Friday, we have a marketing video of the new Microshaft Web 2.0 Services Framework Microshaft Web 2.0 Services Framework is a great new open source XML JS peer to peer dynamic ajax framework that provides user created content with a colaborative wiki that isn’t just rss compliant but is also ipod and Read the rest…
3.8 rating from 25 votes
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Ajax Experience Marketing Worked
Category: Fun
We had a much larger turn out from the community to the Ajax Experience last week, and now we know why. We wanted to test out a new marketing strategy that was both cheap, and in the right place: (NOTE: This was taken by Brent Ashley when he was walking around the city at conference Read the rest…
4.2 rating from 31 votes
Friday, April 14th, 2006
FauxJAX: an Ajax framework for idiots
Category: Fun
It isn’t April 1st, but it is a Friday? Patrick Fitzgerald has announced FauxJAX an Ajax framework for idiots. Simply use our framework to display content on your site, and we’ll do the rest. $dollarSignFunctionsAreSoKewl(‘id’); Don’t worry about XML or JSON because our technology doesn’t even communicate with your web server! It’s that advanced! Using Read the rest…
3.1 rating from 47 votes
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Friday Geek Humour: Announcing Web 2.0.1
Category: Fun
Web 2.0.1 has been announced on the ink-stained banana. It’s Friday, so time to go light: We would like to alert you that there’s been a patch release to Web 2.0 to address some minor bugs and address valuable new features. Although this is a minor upgrade, and should not effect your use of Web Read the rest…
3.8 rating from 33 votes
Friday, December 30th, 2005
How to tell the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
Category: Fun
4.4 rating from 130 votes
Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Ajaxian Commons Abstract Logging: Commons-Logging for JavaScript
Category: Fun, JavaScript
, Library
We recently mentioned a log4js logging toolkit on the site. There is another version of this at log4js.sourceforge.net. And, others quickly mentioned their favorite logging engine for JavaScript (e.g. Safari lets you talk to the console via an api). Enter: ACAL The Ajaxian team has seen this kind of thing before, on the Java side. Read the rest…
4.7 rating from 3 votes
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
JS/UIX: You wanted a JavaScript OS
Category: Fun, JavaScript
I know it. You were sitting there on the weekend thinking that you wish you had a JavaScript OS to play with. You are in luck, as it exists :) JS/UIX JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a vir- tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, Read the rest…
3.4 rating from 5 votes
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
GMRisk: Risk via Google Maps
This is some weekend fun. GMRisk is an implementation of a Risk-like game, using Google Maps as the board. And it even uses XHR ;) var request = GXmlHttp.create(); request.open(“GET”, “riskdata.xml”, true); request.onreadystatechange = function() { if (request.readyState == 4) { var xmlDoc = request.responseXML; var plrs =xmlDoc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName(“player”); for(i=0;i
4.7 rating from 3 votes
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
Category: Examples, Fun
, Web20
ProgrammableWeb.com has a neat little matrix displaying all sorts of web 2.0 mashups when you hover over the intersection of two sites. For instance, hover over the intersection of Google Maps and Flickr and you’ll see geobloggers pop up. Hover where Google Maps meets itself, and you’ll see the sixty or so services built on Read the rest…
3.8 rating from 4 votes
Friday, September 9th, 2005
Friday Fun: JavaScript Super Mario Brothers
Category: Fun
Why not waste your Friday away playing a Japanese version of Super Maryo Brothers ( via Michael Mahemoff )
4.1 rating from 17 votes
Friday, June 10th, 2005
Fun: Javascript Gamelib
We had some interesting feedback to the Lemmings game that we posted for a bit of fun. Scott Schiller pointed us to JavaScript Gamelib. Gamelib was originally developed by Scott Porter of javascript-games.org (has been defunct for a few years now), and is a pretty cool library. Scott had classic scrolling arcade games and a Read the rest…
3.8 rating from 15 votes
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
JavaScript Lemmings: Here we come!
Category: Fun, Games
, JavaScript
Destiny. Remember Flash moving from movies, to rollovers, to games? Now JavaScript is doing the same :) JavaScript Lemmings
4.3 rating from 32 votes
