Ruby
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
Category: .NET
, Ajax
, Java
, JavaScript
, Ruby
, XmlHttpRequest
Currently, Ben and I get asked: Ok, I am sold on this Ajax thing. So, how do I do it? There is no great answer out there. The problem is that currently Ajax is an architecture, not a technology!. This means that to help people out we point them too something like: .NET: Check out Read the rest…
Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Category: Ruby
The latest update to Rails has more great Ajax features: The Ajax wave is sweeping across Rails. In this release, we’ve added a :position option to both link_to_remote and form_remote_tag that can be set to either :before, :top, :bottom, or :after. These options make it possible to add new DOM elements to existing lists without Read the rest…
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
Category: Ajax
, Ruby
, Screencast
Rails 0.11.0 is out on the street and I’m especially proud of the Ajax support we’ve been able to include. Instead of trying to soften the blow of doing client-side Javascript libraries as many others are doing, we’ve gone ahead and more or less removed the need for hand-written client-side javascript entirely. This is done Read the rest…
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
Category: Ajax
, Ruby
David Heinemeier Hansson and Jamis Buck, are putting Ajax-aware components into Rails. Jamis is talking about whether to sync, or not to sync…. One of the great benefits to XMLHttpRequest is the fact that you can do work asynchronously. If you can possibly make your UI so it doesn’t ‘hang’, you should do so. However, Read the rest…
Monday, March 14th, 2005
Category: Ajax
, HTML
, JavaScript
, Ruby
, XmlHttpRequest
James Britt has written an article titled Getting started with Orbjson (PDF). Orbjson is a JSON-RPC object request broker for JavaScript/Ruby RPC interaction. Communication between client and server is done using JSON, the JavaScript object notation Orbjson takes JSON-RPC requests, locates the correpsonding server-side object, deserializes the requrst, and invokes the method call. Orbjson then Read the rest…