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Ajaxian » Seadragon: zoom deeply in the world of Ajax
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• Wed, Nov 26
To build the thing itself you use Deep Zoom Composer and then you choose whether you want the Silverlight version or this Ajax one. The embed viewer is easy to use too. Posted by Dion Almaer at 6:28 am. + + + + +. 5 rating from 2 votes ...
How To: Ajaxian » Canvas Step by Step Tutorial
Original at Ajaxian
• Mon, Nov 24
Audible Ajax. Episode 25. In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more. Podcast RSS · View in iTunes · Ajaxian Odeo Channel · Podnova · iPodderX · more podcasts. GET E-MAIL UPDATES ...
Ajaxian » iPhone for JavaScript Developers
Original at Ajaxian
• Fri, Nov 21
Plus the latest focal area of Ext LLC (ExtGWT) is basically xerox-copying my ideas of “no JavaScript Ajax” and still they’ve got like 100s of Articles and Ra-Ajax have like *ONE* that hurts - not to mention that it is probably not in ...
Ajaxian » FlickrBrot: Happy Birthday Mandelbrot
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• Thu, Nov 20
It’s “Ajax”, not “AJAX”, stupid. News · Podcasts · Showcases · Resources · Training · Conference · Jobs · Planet .... Audible Ajax. Episode 25. In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more. ...
Ajaxian » CDNs Gaining Broader Use with JavaScript Libraries
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• Thu, Nov 20
Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API. Apart from providing a central distribution point for these libraries, ...
Ajaxian » The Ajax side of AIR
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• Wed, Nov 19
By Dion Almaer Our internal tests show that HTML-based AIR applications run as much as 35% faster for many types of operations. We have also added support for interactive debuggin fo Ajax-based AIR applications. There is also a nice sample app that ...
Sys.Observer: Microsoft Ajax 4.0 wants you to be able to be an ...
Original at Ajaxian
• Tue, Nov 11
By Dion Almaer interface that Microsoft AJAX Components can implement, but without the interface and bloat of implementing a component. The hypothetical "renderWidget" function here could look something like this:. PLAIN TEXT. JAVASCRIPT: ...
Razor Optimizer: Runtime analysis of your Ajax code for optimization
Original at Ajaxian
• Thu, Nov 6
By Dion Almaer Razor Optimizer itself is a web based JavaScript application that runs in any browser. It contains a server component and a client component. Razor Optimizer client is an Ajax application based on Dojo 1.1. Razor Optimizer Server is a ...
The Ajax Universe: Ben and Dion showcase the Presentation Randomizer
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• Tue, Nov 4
By Dion Almaer Dion and Ben set the stage for the Ajax Experience by discussing the latest developments, including multithreaded JavaScript technology-powered UIs, robust offline storage, choosing the right Ajax/JavaScript technology framework, ...
State of Ajax for June 2008: Apple flexes Open Web muscles
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• Tue, Jul 1
By Dion Almaer JavaScript An interview with 280 North on Objective-J and CappuccinoSteve Yegge on Server Side JavaScriptJavascript HTML Construction BenchmarkThe fight for cross domain XMLHttpRequesteval(’foo=a’, obj.fn); How you aren’t private in FirefoxGoogle Analytics after onLoad and d...
Podcast: Audible Ajax Episode 27: SproutCore with Charles Jolley
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• Thu, Jun 19
By Dion Almaer SproutCore is much more JavaScript focused though, and gives you MVC in the client in a simple and intuitive way. I found it interesting to see how the framework has developed, from its Rails plugin roots, to now (dispel myth: it has no dependency on Rails, just some build files are Ruby).
How To: WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio 3.1.1 Released
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• Thu, Feb 28
By Dion Almaer Studio lets users create database- and web service-driven Ajax web applications using a wysiwyg visual designer. WaveMaker helps users create simple applications without any scripting knowledge, while developers can easily add ...
Ajaxian Roundup for December, 2007: It’s the end of the year as we know it
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• Mon, Dec 31
By Dion Almaer Prototype NASA Relaunches 5.0 with Prototype and Script.aculo.usPacking Down Prototype Microsoft Silverlight 1.^H^H2.0: Controls are hereMicrosoft Labs Volta: .NET Web Toolkit Security Cross Site Scripting Joy: XSS in detailFiltering JavaScript From HTML Content with AntiSammy
Podcast: GWT Conference: December 3-6, 2007
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• Thu, Nov 15
By Dion Almaer Advanced Topics Advanced UI programming: Widgets, Panels, DOM, and JSNI Using deferred binding for dependency injection and code generation Designing for no-compromise usability, including tips for maximizing responsiveness, supporting history, and internationalizing well...
Ajax, Browsers, Running Out of Time
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• Thu, Nov 15
By Dietrich Kappe I'm not alone in this. Colleagues and friends report similar problems with Safari/Mac, IE7/Vista, Firefox/Mac. I've even checked with a friend that runs the helpdesk for a large firm: reported problems with browsers are up. The only one who seems blissfully unaffected is the lone Opera ne...
Opinion: Automated security scanners choke on Ajax
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• Mon, Oct 8
By Rey Bango It looks like some of the most expensive security scanners can’t handle Ajax code. Information Week reviewed and tested 5 pricey application scanners, including software from IBM & HP, and all, sans IBM’s scanner, failed to pinpoint vulnerabilities with Ajax code:
Podcast: Audible Ajax Episode 21: Dojo Offline on Google Gears
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• Wed, May 30
By Dion Almaer Google has announced some big news for Ajax developers at Google Developer Day. The announcement is Google Gears, an open source runtime to allow you to build Offline Web applications. Some may think "hmm, what about Dojo Offline?" The great news is that the Dojo crew were in the loop wrt thi...
How To: Freja 2.1: XSL and JavaScript
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• Thu, May 3
By Dion Almaer Freja is a specialized JavaScript framework for creating template-based, single-screen web applications. It relies on browser-side XSL Transformation to render the user interface faster than any other Ajax-based method, and is built on top of Sarissa.
Google announces new AJAX Feed API
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• Wed, Apr 18
By Dion Almaer The Google AJAX API team has announced a genuinely useful Feed API that gives an Ajax developer the ability to access feeds, cached in the fast Google edge cache where appropriate, from across the web using a simple JavaScript API. This is a subtle service that does one thing that is current...
The New Timers
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• Sun, Apr 1
By Michael Mahemoff Ask any self-respecting Ajax developer how they time events, and they’ll tell you “I use setTimout()” or more likely, “I use setTimeout(), duh”. However, two new Ajax patterns are making that “duh” seem just a little tenuous. One new timing technique relies on the notorious tag, the other...
CrowdRules
Original at Ajaxian
• Tue, Mar 27
By Dion Almaer is a “crowd-powered content recommendation engine”. We use Ajax in a few, carefully-selected parts of our application to improve the user experience. Our application is written using Ruby on Rails and implements Ajax features using RJS templates and the Prototype library. These tools a...
Docs for Dojo, Prototype, Others?
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• Fri, Mar 16
By Michael Mahemoff What’s on your Ajax doc wishlist? In my recent post on current concerns with Ajax, there was a comment about lack of documentation for Dojo and Prototype. In the comments (of the Ajaxian post and my blog post), project members asked what would you like to see wrt documentation? Here’s my wis...
The Business of Ajax - Google’s Ajax Search API
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• Thu, Feb 15
By Dietrich Kappe You agree that you will not, and you will not permit your users or other third parties to: (a) modify or replace the text, images, or other content of the Google Search Results, including by (i) changing the order in which the Google Search Results appear, (ii) intermixing Search Results f...
Ajax in London: QCon and Ajax2007
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• Wed, Feb 7
By Ben Galbraith The month after that, Ajax2007 happens (Apr. 17 - 18). This show has also got a lot of Ajax names, including Jesse James Garrett and Bill Scott (Rico; Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist); Dion and I will also be there to greet our legion of UK Ajaxian.com fans (i.e., Dion’s family).
iPhone could change mobile browsing
Original at Ajaxian
• Wed, Jan 10
By Dion Almaer Fun stuff to think about. Nokia has had a phone that supports Safari for awhile. A Nokia chap was at the first Ajax Experience in San Francisco last May showing off the phone. It had the same features that Safari on the iPhone has (zooming around web pages). Opera Mobile is also very popular on var...
COMET with PHP
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• Thu, Sep 28
By Dion Almaer Manuel Lemos has written a post about the details and challenges of an AJAX COMET implementation in PHP. The article describes an approach used to implement highly responsive AJAX applications using the COMET approach, and how it can be implemented in PHP.
Ajax-based PHP Grid Acquired, Soon to Open Source
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• Thu, Sep 14
By Chris Cornutt According to this quick press release, Senza Limiti has snagged an Ajax-based PHP data grid component and is already making plans to publish it out with an open source license. Senza Limiti will re-release the PHP Grid under an Open Source license on October 1st, 2006, hoping to create the...
The JSON RFC
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• Fri, Aug 4
By Michael Mahemoff JSON was born in 2002, and has really flourished alongside Ajax in the past eighteen months. And now Doug Crockford has established a a JSON RFC: The application/json Media Type for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) (via Sleepyhead).
How To: Ajaxian: Simple Ajax Quiz using Atlas
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• Tue, Aug 1
Been wondering how to get Atlas and Ajax to play nicely together, but just don’t know how to get started? Well, this quick tutorial ...
How To: The Ajax Transport Method(s)
Original at Ajaxian
• Thu, Jun 8
The IBM developerWorks site has this new tutorial posted today, a look a the various “Ajax transport methods” - XMLHttpRequest, IFrames, and script tags - what they are, how to use them ...
Ajax Experience Day 2: Thomas Fuchs’ on the Enhancing the User Experience
Original at Ajaxian
• Thu, May 11
By Rob Sanheim Notes from Thomas Fuchs' session on Ajax and Javascript/DOM techniques to build a better user experience. Thomas is the creator of Script.aculo.us, a member of the Rails core team, and has his own blog at mir.aculo.us. Why use tools and frameworks? Don't reinvent the wheelJavascript gives yo...
Hive7 - The (Virtual) World Ajax Built
Original at Ajaxian
• Mon, Apr 3
By Chris Cornutt From a quick glance at the source of the page, there’s no embedded elements to be seen - just HTML and Javascript powering this lightweight app. There’s even custom menus for the additional functionality the software offers. I took a look at the Javascript behind the application and was ple...
AjaxLaunch.com: An Ajax App Each Week
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• Fri, Mar 24
By Michael Mahemoff Hopefully the “Ajax PC” suite will work for all major browsers. Alex Russell’s recent post takes issue with the fact that AjaxWrite belies its name by working only in Firefox, and graciously suggests that the xulwrite.com domain is still available.
JSEclipse 1.5 released
Original at Ajaxian
• Wed, Mar 22
By Rob Sanheim JSEclipse is free to try and free for non-commercial use, and $29 for a single commercial license. JSEclipse (covered here previously) has released version 1.5, with a host of new features: Code completion Supports most common JavaScript coding idioms and features from major JavaScrip...
Ajax Tutorial Round-up
Original at Ajaxian
• Fri, Mar 17
By Dion Almaer AJAX Framework and Toolkit Tutorials AJAX Tutorial with PrototypeLearn xajax in 10 MinutesUsing Ajax with PHP and SajaxDeveloper Notes for prototype.js Ajax Getting Started Tutorial Ajax: Getting Started Ajax Image Gallery Tutorial Ajax: What is it Good For?
Google Calendar: CL2
Original at Ajaxian
• Wed, Mar 8
By Dion Almaer Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has gotten leaked screenshots of Googles Ajax Calendar. CL2 is closely, very closely, integrated with Gmail. It includes now-standard web 2.0 features - Ajax, suscription feeds for integration with iCal and other desktop calendars, event creation, search...
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