There was an article on James McParlane’s blog last week regarding AJAX and its load on servers. If AJAX is done correctly it can easily reduce file size transfers reducing the amount of bandwidth needed to run the web application. The opposite is true as well in that if a developer creates a poorly executed AJAX application the could bring a server down to its knees. Read the rest of this entry »

Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, there was an article on Computerworld stating that Microsoft is still working on its Atlas framework for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The Atlas framework is said to not displace the JavaScript technology with its own Microsoft technology. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of clients have been requesting edit in place editing for their Web 2.0 applications. It’s a simple but very useful feature. It makes editing documents on the web a lot faster than the traditional point and click. Now there are many ways to tackle the problem but there is some pretty good documentation on Joseph Scott’s blog. Now I wouldn’t say this is a perfect solution, no solution really is, but it does work and get the job done. I’m sure over time this code will evolve as all coding usually does. Read the rest of this entry »

Dynamic Drive has a tutorial on creating AJAX Tabs similar to the ones I have in the portfolio section on my home page. While I didn’t use this script to create them, many sites such as CNN and Yahoo have incorporated this feature. It’s actually a pretty nice way of organizing a lot of content and only sending the content that the user wants to see making the page load faster and less bandwidth hits on your server. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) written in Java to allow easy implementation of AJAX applications for web developers. What the Google Web Toolkit does is takes the developers Java code and converts it to HTML and JavaScript for use in an AJAX application. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone who has been following web technology the last couple of years has had to have heard or used the term AJAX that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Jesse James Garrett coined the term in 2005, but the technology has been around long before that. AJAX has been so popular that there have been conventions and trade shows focused around the topic. Read the rest of this entry »

AJAX Magazine has a small tutorial on how to integrate Google Calendar into your website using PHP and AJAX. The PHP script just reads the feed from Google Calendar which you can publish via XML or ICAL. This script can read either the public or private calendars. The JavaScript is a basic XML parser which reads the data from the PHP script and output’s it to the DOM. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve decided to move toward more standardized JavaScript code as opposed to custom code. I figure it would make things easier to debug and if there was a patch with open source code I could just apply it to my existing projects. Those of you familiar with AJAX or even JavaScript in general have probably heard of these open source JavaScript projects. Read the rest of this entry »

For those not familiar with AJAX, there was an article I read when I first started learning by Jesse James Garrett called Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. To sum the article, AJAX is XHTML/CSS for the presentation, display and interaction through the DOM model, data interchange using XML and XSLT through an XMLHttpRequest all bound together with JavaScript. For more information read the article. This week I came across an article called AJAX Gets ALE. Read the rest of this entry »