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“We look at a lot of Ajax applications, and we have seen a lot of trends over the last couple of years. In general we are maturing, but as complexity has gone up in Ajax applications we are seeing one scary trend. The first set of apps simply added some <script> that did some happy XMLHttpRequest dancing. Then we abstracted to libraries such as Dojo and Prototype. Then people tried to do the right thing and use unobtrusive JavaScript where we keep the HTMl structure separate from the code. We would all like to see more of this. Unfortunately, we are starting to see Ajax applications that look more like Flash web pages…” (Thanks SuccessForce!)

btw, you can see some work XPLANE has been doing for Salesforce over at the Successforce blog.

“In an effort to increase developer productivity at Google, Steve tried to convince the company to adopt Rails (and consequently Ruby) as a programming language. When that fell on deaf ears (Google really does not want to increase the number of languages that must be supported by their infrastructure), Steve decided to do what any other frustrated programmer would do: he ported Rails to JavaScript. Line by line. In 6 months. Working 2000 hours. Steve is a coding stud.”

Ajax scripts demos and downloads from Florentin Sardan.

“Learning Rails from scratch can be a pain. But don’t fret, this guide provides the best Rails resources the Web has to offer.”

“On one of my web projects I’ve been working on, we needed to allow the user to edit some information on their profile page. I could have written an HTML form page and then written the php database updater, but why use such outdated interfaces? This is the era of AJAX, and you can’t deny it. AJAX is pretty sweet. I decided on using Flickr-like editing boxes to do the job. If you are not familiar with how flickr handles editing data, here’s a short summary.”

“Have you ever watched your status bar while you wait for a page to load and wondered why several files seem to be downloaded before you see anything at all on your screen? Eventually the page content displays, and then the images are slotted in. The files that keep you waiting are generally the CSS and Javascript files linked to from the ‘head’ section of the HTML document. Because these files determine how the page will be displayed, rendering is delayed until they are completely downloaded.”

“You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn’t have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special.”

Compresses the JavaScript you enter by removing whitespace, creating a reduced fully-functional version of code you input.

Creates a thumbnail index of all the images in a directory: “Server generated directory indices are ugly. OK, they work everywhere, but they’re still ugly. If you’d like your download directory to be maintainable without creating and changing huge HTML files, just put snif as its index file into the directory and here you go!”

“…check out the way The City Church does theirs using SlideShowPro. It’s pretty cool, because it gets your attention, and then you can click on the image to go to the corresponding page to read more. I think that SSP is a great product, and use it myself for my portfolio. Yet, to administer SSP takes owning either Flash 8 or MX 2004, $20.00, and a bit of XML savvy. Additionally, you can also buy Director, a PHP and MySQL based Ajax admin that will handle all the XML heavy lifting for you. Both of these are worth well more than what Todd Dominey charges for them. So, please do not mis-interpret this post as a slam against SlideShowPro. All I am saying is that if you just want to simply rotate images with some accompanying links, and you want to do it on the cheap, this is a possible alternative.”

“On Monday I gave a 3-hour tutorial first thing in the morning, here at O’Reilly OSCON 2006 in Portland. From the description: Even though AJAX wouldn’t ever have become so popular if the Javascript world hadn’t suddenly exploded with mature development and testing tools, there’s little information on how to be a really good Javascript programmer. This talk is for everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren’t up to snuff.”

“The best way to accept file uploads on your website!”

“A little HTML, a little CSS, and a little Javascript should do the trick. In my HTML, I used two divs, and a link to clear the results. One div is the search control div, and the other is a wrapper for the search control div. I put it near the bottom of my html files so it appears on top of the content on each page.”

“The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to bring Ajax to the web design community who can benefit from Ajax, but are not well served by other frameworks.”