Posts Tagged ‘AJAX’
MyNewPlace Promises Easier Apartment Hunting
May 1st, 2006
CNET News.com reviewed a Web 2.0 site for people searching for housing called MyNewPlace. The site allows blog postings by its communities and also shows Google maps of the apartments locations. People can get information regarding apartment choices without needed to registering for the site. The renter receives $150 in rebate money if they sign a rental agreement and the owner of the units pay a fee to list the unit.
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Web 2.0 Meets The Enterprise
April 28th, 2006
CNET News.com had an interesting article about Web 2.0 in enterprise. The corporate world has been slow to adopt technology such as blogs and AJAX, but it finally seeing the importance of using Web 2.0 in their businesses.
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Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
April 23rd, 2006
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.
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Integrate Google Calendar in Your Website Using AJAX
April 23rd, 2006
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.
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Invest in Web 2.0 Without Getting Burned
April 22nd, 2006
With the Web 2.0 phenomenon in affect, people are feeling the investment fever they did in the dot-com era according to CNN Money. The Internet bubble had burst once before and many people thought it would never happen again. The next net boom may happen again.
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AOL to Launch ‘MySpace Killer’
April 20th, 2006
AOL may release a competitor to the popular MySpace social networking site. The rumors has been somewhat confirmed by associates working at AOL. It seems to be a pretty good market but AOL may be too late in the game to unseat MySpace.
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Prototype, Behaviour, Rico, and Script.aculo.us
April 16th, 2006
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.
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AJAX Gets ALE
April 15th, 2006
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.
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Google Calendar
April 13th, 2006
Google released the beta version of their calendar program and I have to say I’m quite impressed. That’s not to say that I’m not impressed with the other Google products, but Google continues to put quality ideas into a working Web 2.0 application.
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AJAX: Building a Spy
April 13th, 2006
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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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