Posts Tagged ‘AJAX’
AJAX Tabs Content Script
May 24th, 2006
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.
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Dojo The Browser Toolkit
May 24th, 2006
When writing scripts, I didn’t think white space would affect my code so much. A space is still considered a character though and it does take up file space. By using the Java tool Dojo to compress JavaScript files, removing white space reduces a 321B file down to 140B. While this might not seem like that much with broadband connections out, it makes a difference.
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Serving JavaScript Fast
May 23rd, 2006
Vitamin has a post by Cal Henderson for those creating next generation web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. The main issue is the optimization of the content in order to give users the best possible experience when visiting the website.
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Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX Apps in the Java Language
May 17th, 2006
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.
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Yahoo Updates Home Page
May 16th, 2006
Yahoo has released their updated home page. I had seen screenshots of this before, but I think this is the first time it is available to the public. Overall I think it looks a lot better than the previous page. The look and feel is a lot lighter and that’s easier on the eyes, which is important for a page with that much content. I felt that the old page overburdened the reader with too much distraction. This new page appears to be a step in the right direction.
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Gmail Adds Photos to Contacts
May 15th, 2006
As reported on Hawk Wings, Gmail has added the ability to add photos to the people in your contact list. This is similar to how instant messaging applications allow the user to have an icon. The Google Talk application allows this and since Talk is now implemented in Gmail’s web interface, it seems like a logical feature to add.
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Google Trends
May 15th, 2006
Google has released Google Trends, a utility used to analyze users search trends. While they have a disclaimer on the bottom of the page that it does not include all data and infers a few things in order to tabulate its data, it’s still a pretty handy tool for people. I see this especially useful for web developers using keyword based ad placements.
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Yahoo! User Interface Library
May 14th, 2006
For those of you that don’t know, Yahoo has a set of open source utilities written in JavaScript. It includes some helpful tools for DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. Many of these tools are used in their applications and are available through their developer network.
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JavaDB: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come?
May 4th, 2006
There was a blog entry on ZDNet a few days ago regarding JavaDB. JavaDB is a relational database management system written in Java. Apache has its own version named Derby. The JavaDB system will be included in Sun’s Solaris Enterprise System.
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Google Calendar Tips
May 3rd, 2006
Google Calendar has been out for a few weeks now and people have gotten a chance to use the system. Stopdesign has a collection of tips to help you use Google Calendar more efficiently. They also have a few tips for Mac users hesitant to switch from iCal to Google Calendar.
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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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