Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
BuiltWith is the latest attempt at gathering information about a given URL. It aims to weazel around and find out as much technical information about the site as possible. For example: What web server? What JavaScript libraries? Do they use a CDN? What analytics programs do they use? What widgets are installed If you have Read the rest…
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Category: Flash, Showcase
, Yahoo!
Flickr has released a new browser photo uploader that uses Flash and JavaScript to let users grab multiple files, and give them progress on the upload process. The heavy lifting is done by the Flash FileReference & FileReferenceList classes, which give you the callbacks on progress.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
As part of the Apple announcements yesterday they showed off a new .Mac Web Gallery that uses Prototype and Script.aculo.us to give you a rich web view of your photos. Shaun Trennery blogged about the features: The main page is a collection of album thumbnails that change as the user hovers over them. The powerful Read the rest…
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Category: jQuery, Sencha
, Showcase
Marketo produces software for managing your search engine marketing. The tool itself is very rich, and offers first class usage of Ext JS and jQuery. You can see an online demo, and you will notice rich table and tree components, and the general “looks like an app” feel.
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Category: Showcase, Social Networks
The folk at Me.dium have announced a new widget that you can use to show Me.dium on your own site, and the full release of their IE 7 support. Below is an example of a Me.dium widget that is bound to ajaxian.com as the central point. Me.dium is now opening up to your signups, so Read the rest…
Category: Comet, Java
, JavaScript
, Showcase
Zhou Renjian has a new demo
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Backpack, the simple web-based manager of to-dos, notes, ideas, and schedules from 37 Signals, has had an upgrade. The team discussed some of the changes, and the biggest addition is the ability to move any “widget” (note, to-do list, picture gallery, etc.) anywhere on the page, or even to another page. We talked to Sam Read the rest…
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Cellsea has a free new video editor and convertor using MochiKit and SWFObject. It is a very primitive and simple tools that lets you do a couple of tweaks to your video, but it is a nice example of talking between the Flash and Ajax worlds.
Friday, July 20th, 2007
I don’t normally post many “mashups” but Prague 360 is to beautiful to pass up. Jeffrey Martin and his brother David have created some high quality views on some of the cities, and they use the Google Maps API as the platform to show the content. If you head over to Prague, you will see Read the rest…
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Category: Adobe, Ajax
, Showcase
Dave Johnson of Nitobi wrote a nice desktop application for salesforce.com. The application is offline enabled by Air using Ajax as the actual app code itself (no Flash). Dave has written up a detailed walk through to show off how this was built, and shows (quoting his ‘l33+): Custom chrome to make things look hawt Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Showcase
Protonotes is an Ajax app to allow you to annotate your prototype applications for review and discussion: Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality , design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context Read the rest…
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Lalit Patel has created an application that will fetch random (Creative Commons Licensed) sideshows from slideshare.net using the API. The SlideShare Karaoke Randomizer was used for the first time on 11th July at the Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco! The application uses the SlideShare.net API and Prototype / Script.acluo.us. The code has been released Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Versionate is a new online document collaboration product that uses ajax heavily for the core UI. The user experience was designed to be as fluid as possible. Once you sign in, all the interactions stay on one page. Instead of page reloads, each document or wiki page is opened in a new tab inside the Read the rest…
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
AOL has a slew of new beta products all powered by Dojo. The portal piece differs from iGoogle and the like by not using iframes. At first I was surprised at this (security concerns), but then you see that the portlets are fairly locked down. Mgnet is an interesting product that helps you find content Read the rest…
Christophe Coenraets has released a new Sales Builder (which he didn’t do on the bus! bad Christophe! :). Salesbuilder is a Sales Force Automation application that demonstrates local persistence using the embedded SQLite database, data synchronization, native drag-and-drop, and other features such as direct chart manipulation. It makes you wish that you had an “Experience Read the rest…
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Update: Site owner Miguel says the site is down for the next few days while he upgrades to a new server. Xinu aggregates content on anything and everything to do with your website. Type a URL in and several dozen XHR requests later, the page is populated with a screenshot, pagerank, Alexa rank, Digg tally, Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
