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Can an AJAX-powered user interface help you ship your software on time?

Written on November 17, 2006 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Applications

“Shipping great software on time is a difficult but not impossible task.” – Jim McCarthy, Microsoft Corporation (From 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time) This is a sponsored review. If you are looking for a program that could possibly help you ship your software in a more timely manner, you might…

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Record a web-browsing session using neato AJAX-powered “web recorder”

Written on April 16, 2006 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Applications, JavaScript, Web 2.0

This is an application which feels like it must surely have a useful purpose. I’m not totally sure what that use would be though. Perhaps recording a demo or walk-through of a website. From the site: TAPEFAILURE is a “history recording tool.” What this means is that anyone can record a browsing session using TAPEFAILURE’s…

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How much attention have you paid lately to securing your AJAX application?

Written on April 5, 2006 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Development, Web 2.0

A good introductory 2600-style article warning about possible security vulnerabilities that using AJAX may lead to. Never trust user input, especially if it is coming via AJAX and you are not authenticating every request. One good suggestion in the article is using sequential authentication tokens to make sure each request is legitimate. This adds more…

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Max Kiesler – Downloadable AJAX Galleries, Slideshows and Effects

Written on March 8, 2006 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Resources

This is a nice list of Ajax-powered image galleries with mini-reviews of each. Many of the components that make up image galleries and slideshows are perfectly suited for AJAX. Lightboxes, slides, fades, uploaders and live search are just a few of the many AJAX widgets that could improve the usability of many image galleries and…

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WWJUA – Where Would Jesus Use Ajax?

Written on December 3, 2005 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Applications, Ajax Development, JavaScript, Web 2.0

There’s a good discussion going on over at Ajaxian about specific times when Ajax should or should not be used based on a posting by Alex Bosworth (10 Places You Must Use Ajax). From Alex’s article: For heavy use applications such as a webmail client or a blogreader, users have the luxury of time to…

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Ajax Browser in a Browser – Gollum

Written on November 28, 2005 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Applications, PHP and Ajax, Web 2.0

This is a neat “browser in a browser” Ajax application. It makes Wikipedia beautiful, simple and lovely, almost more like an OS X dashboard widget application than the gigantically time-sucking wonderful website that it is. Beautiful. Neat use of forward / back, nicely designed. As nice as this is, I don’t think I’ll be switching…

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Ajax without the X? – Good article about combining a generic Javascript new script engine with some PHP to deliver simple AJAX interactions

Written on November 22, 2005 by Gabriel in Ajax, AJAX Code, Ajax Development, Ajax Examples, Ajax Tutorials, JavaScript, PHP and Ajax

If you’ve wrestled with the whole XMLHttpRequest part of AJAX you should read this article. It clearly explains the technique of appending a new Javascript SCRIPT tag into the body and using the results to display new or updated content. But there is one problem with most of the current implementations of Ajax: it has…

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ONJava.com: AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons

Written on November 19, 2005 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Applications, AJAX Code, Ajax Development, Ajax Examples, Ajax Frameworks, Ajax Resources, Ajax Tutorials, JavaScript, Web 2.0

I can’t wait to try this library out to see if it really does work to enable back and forward button support. Don’t be afraid to read all 6 pages of this excellent article and then download the example code and libraries. This article presents an open source JavaScript library that finally brings bookmarking and…

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Simple and clear example of how to create a MySQL connection with PHP/AJAX

Written on November 18, 2005 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Development, Ajax Examples, Ajax Tutorials, JavaScript, PHP and Ajax

This is a good and simple example of doing one very clear action — sending a command to open a MySQL database connection through the AJAX transport layer. It includes downloadable code examples as well to get you started. Filed under, “Roll-your-own-Ajax” department. In this tutorial I will explain how to open a mysql database…

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AJAX Whitepaper – Issues when working with AJAX (Mercurytide)

Written on November 17, 2005 by Gabriel in Ajax, Ajax Tutorials

This is a good and fairly thorough introduction to the world of AJAX programming, cleanly and simply laid out with clear examples of each piece of an AJAX transaction. Worth a read both for new and experienced coders who need to refresh their understanding of this whole squiggley octopus mess that we call AJAX. This…

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