Posts Tagged ‘AJAX’
Web 2.0 Venture Capital Increasing, But Real Success Hard To Find
September 26th, 2006
Ars Technica posted an article today regarding Web 2.0 funding and making it a successful business model. There is a huge discrepancy between investments and those that turn into Web 2.0 companies.
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Web 2.0 Entering Corporate World Slowly
September 21st, 2006
According to CNET News.com corporations are still slow adopters of Web 2.0 as compared to consumers. Most of the companies are using technologies in small scale projects. It used to be that consumers were behind corporations in the form of cutting edge technologies in the computer industry.
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Blogger.com Unveils New Beta Version
August 16th, 2006
Techcrunch has a post regarding the new beta version of Blogger.com. It looks like it’s upgrades some JavaScript with Google style making it easier for people to blog on their platform. I personally use my own blogging software or setup blogs for people on WordPress or Typepad, but I know a lot of people that just want a basic blog and Blogger is a good choice for them.
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AJAX MySQL Database Administrator – TurboDbAdmin
July 26th, 2006
For a while I have been using the program Navicat to control MySQL databases and I still use it and will continue to use it. It does a great job and it is really easy to use. The price seems reasonable to me for the features it offers so I can’t really complain. Since I had been working with a lot of AJAX applications and noticed a lot of desktop applications being converted to web applications.
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Mouse Wheel Programming In JavaScript
July 26th, 2006
There was a post on Adomas Paltanavicius website giving a tutorial about mouse wheel programming in JavaScript. It is a pretty clever idea and doing more and more AJAX-like applications I can see this tutorial becoming more and more useful. At this time I never really thought about implementing code for the mouse wheel but in upcoming projects I think I will find this tutorial very helpful.
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Do Google Ads Belong On A Company Desktop?
July 25th, 2006
CNET News.com had on article on their site a couple of days ago regarding a company called Spiceworks using Google ads to finance their business. The company creates a software program that installs on the business computers and gives an inventory on what is on the company network. Pretty simple, but seems like a pretty good idea.
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The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript
July 22nd, 2006
The Vitamin has an article on the importance of maintainable JavaScript. Since I have been doing more and more AJAX web applications for clients this has becoming such an important point especially as web applications become larger and larger and more dependent on JavaScript to create its function.
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Google Spreadsheets Getting Charts Soon
July 15th, 2006
There was a post on the ZDNet blog about Google spreadsheets possibly getting a chart function. This would be a big step for web applications and push it more towards becoming a replacement for a desktop application.
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Folder Tree With Drag and Drop Capabilities
July 14th, 2006
DHTML Goodies has a post on their site including code for a folder tree with drag and drop capabilities. It is actually a pretty creative script and works very well. It also has a demo and tutorial to implement it into your own site.
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Scalable AJAX
July 10th, 2006
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.
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About Me
Brandon Quintana has been actively involved in web development for the past 12 years. Proficient web programming languages include XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
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