Friday, July 13th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Robot Replay is a Rails application written by Nitobi that allows you to record how your users use your site, and play it back later. You include a piece of JavaScript on your site, and then user events are chunked, and sent up to RobotReplay every now and then. Once the user is done with Read the rest…
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Category: Prototype, Rails
, Showcase
Derek Gaw gave an ignite talk tonight onAIR which showed off his Uncluttr project. Derek works for Amazon, but this is outside of his company work. He is frustrated seeing 1.5MB of content being downloaded when you login, find a book, and then view the detail page. That is too much. Uncluttr uses the Amazon Read the rest…
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Ryan Stout’s company recently launched Bust a Name which has the functionality of things like Instant Domain Search , but it also has a “word combiner” where you enter words and the site tries all different combinations of them and lets you know what domains are available based on those combinations. It also lets you Read the rest…
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Nothing drives me more batty than when I want to contact someone at a company, and it keeps sending me to some crappy set of FAQs that I know will not answer my question or concern. I am sure you have been there. Geni has a nice solution. It appears to let you go right Read the rest…
JDocs is a place to search Java API documentation. It does more than just give you the usual Javadoc though. Users can annotate the documentation, Wiki style, and thus the documentation gets better. This new release is jam packed with Ajax support, from the wiki support, to model queries, and much more.
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Adeel Khan has created another HTTP shell called htsh using PHP on the backend and jQuery for the front end. It currently supports most common commands, like cd, chmod, cp, edit, exit, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, unzip, and zip. It is also very easy to add your own commands. It even supports tab-completion. Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Vayama is a new Travel 2.0 site that has an Ajax UI. Vayama itself has a focus on international travel for U.S. travelers. To help out, you get visual clues on your itinerary. Maybe this is because they know that the US has some… erm…. issues with geography? :) The Ajax (DWR and more) and Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Ron Schneider announced a new look for Google Docs and Spreadsheets today. This is a good example of changing the feel for an app that you use daily, and adding some nice Ajax effects and features, such as the good ‘ole left side folder list. I wonder if anyone will be confused that these folders Read the rest…
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Category: jQuery, JSON
, Showcase
There has been a lot of talk in the Digg community about their new comment system. Joe Stump implemented the new system, and in the process he took out Script.aculo.us, and created a jQuery plugin based solution. By far the most complex portion of the comments system was how dynamic it was going to be. Read the rest…
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
James MacFarlane developed this real estate map to give real-time data of unit availability in one of our rental developments. You can mouse-over the available units to view the townhouse details, and click to view the floor plan. It’s simple, clean and to the point. The application makes heavy use of Prototype and Script.aculo.us throughout. Read the rest…
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Category: Dojo, Java
, Showcase
Rhyme & Reason provides a rich text editor for composing poems, automatically scans each line’s meter as you type and displays the marked up line in a panel below the editor. I believe it is the only online tool that can read a line of poetry and scan it automatically. It also supports scanning an Read the rest…
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
CNN has a new beta site that plays with Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some simple clean effects and inline Ajax. The site also uses a StorageManager to access local storage using IE-specific, DOM storage, or cookies. This way your personalization is stored away. If you put it side by side the current site, you will Read the rest…
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
To go with the keynote, Apple pushed live a new revamped website that looks even more like it is running in iTunes. There are lots of effects, courtesy of Prototype and Script.aculo.us, such as mouseover accordians, and horizontal scroll areas. Fred Oliveira wasn’t all impressed: Apple launched a new website. “Great!â€, I hear you say Read the rest…
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Marc B. Stroz pointed us to a new Joomla module called TARR (Tabbed Ajax RSS Reader). TARR is using the EXT JS libraries, JQuery and the simplepie xml parser to display different feeds in a tabbed format. It allows for server defined defaults / favorites and for users to add to their favorites for later Read the rest…
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Category: Gears, Offline
, Showcase
Remember The Milk is one of the early Web 2.0 entrants that keeps innovating. I think that they were probably the first popular-non-google web applicationto go offline with Gears. They decided to take an approach similar to Google Reader’s offline model: What can I do offline? Just about everything that’s possible online with Remember The Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Stefan Schuster has created Mind42, a collaborative mind mapping tool. It’s a Dojo powered full JavaScript client with a Java server in the backend for providing a JSON interface. Its a full Drag and Drop enabled graphical mindmap editor including web only features like collaboration, sharing, blog integration and: Text nodes with colors, icons, links, Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
