MiniAjax - Free Downloadable Ajax Scripts

Have you ever wanted to do something with ajax but didnt want to code it yourself or pay to have it coded for you? Check out MiniAjax.com Here is a list of a few things they have for download:

- Prototype Windows
- Ajax Star Rating Bar
- Site Heatmapping Script
- GrayBox Popup Script
- Bubble Tool Tips
- Ajax Tabs Script
- Ajax Poller Script
- Ajax Pie and Donut Chart Script
- Ajax Form Validation Script

And much, much more. Check it out now.

Wufoo

Wufoo is a web-based tool to help you build and host amazing online forms. In only a few short minutes, you can create a mailing list, a marketing survey or even a complete customer management system. In other words, Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. Because we host everything, all you need is a browser, an Internet connection and a few minutes to build a form and start using it right away. As it is beta stage right now, its tough to see how it would compete with JotForm.

Ajax and ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcMap?

Ajax and ArcIMS, ArcView, and ArcGIS

 

Anyone have success implementing Ajax into ESRI products? I’m in process of taking on the GIS specialist position at the lab I work at and looking to start implementing Javascript and XML into our applications and projects. I’ve heard of some working on some AJax  applications that allows you to send and receive information from an mxd file from the client side straight to a webservice like arcweb services,  and receiving the results asynchronously into your arcmap server.  Anyone have success with it?

http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Google AJAX development toolkit

Google donates OpenSource software development tool with all the AJAX fun in it, makes creating AJAX applications much easier. With Google Web Toolkit (Beta) , you can develop and debug your own AJAX applications in Java code using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler simply translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Get Help With Ajax Freaks

While surfing the web I came across a great tutorial site for users of Ajax. Ajax Freaks is an informational website and you can use it while you are learning or if your still in the development stage.

They have over 200 articles, and they also have forums, downloads, scripts and tutorials. If you are completely unsure what Ajax is, try starting here and reading a few articles tutorials.

XAP - eXtensible Ajax Platform

A project proposal from Apache …

XAP is to provide an XML-based declarative framework for building, deploying and maintaining rich, interactive, Ajax-powered web applications. A basic principal of XAP is to leverage existing Ajax projects such as Apache Kabuki and Dojo, as well as other community efforts such as Eclipse openAjax. It aims to be pluggable with various Ajax toolkits, reduce the need of scripting and solve the development challenge as well as application maintenance challenges associated with Ajax programming.

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/XapProposal

Zephyr - MVC Framework for PHP5 Developers

zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement. you can deliver a full fledged ajax application with strong business layer in backend within some minutes. installation and deployment of packages that you develop for zephyr is hassle free. moreover you will get all the features of most popular templating engine “smarty” and powerfull data access layer “adoDB”. lets go through the documentation process to discover how easy is to develop an ajax application using zephyr framework.

Ajax Patterns and Best Practices — Free Chapter Preview

I’ve been meaning to write about this Ajax book (Ajax Patterns and Best Practices - by Christian Gross) for a while now. It’s gotten some really great reviews at Amazon.com, including this one by Jason A. Salas:

I very much enjoyed reading this book and got a lot out of it. To date, I’ve read about four of the major Ajax titles from various publishers, and this is the best of them so far. Christian Gross uses a very friendly voice and makes tacking the technical concepts behind modern-day web programming with Ajax - often a difficult task to simplify by the writing community - very easy to grasp.

Here’s a little more about Ajax Patterns and Best Practices from the publisher (Apress Inc.):

This book addresses the server side with the REST protocol. REST and Ajax blend elegantly together, but REST can also be used alone, with just a computer-to-computer solution. Like Ajax, REST can be used with today’s existing technologies. Millions of client computers are now Ajax-ready, and millions of servers are REST-ready.

This is an ideal book whether or not you have already created an Ajax application. Because the book outlines various patterns and best practices, you can quickly check and verify that you’re building an efficient Ajax application.

You can download a Free Chapter Preview (Ch. 03 - Content Chunking Pattern) from the publisher’s site. (PDF format)

The author has also made available the source code used throughout the book. (probably more useful when you own the book, though )

More Links

Buy Ajax Patterns and Best Practices from Amazon.com.

More about the book from the publisher.

BloggerJacks: the Author’s Weblog (Christian Gross)

Rails 1.1 and RJS Templates for Easily Ajaxifying your Webapp

Well, as you probably know, Ruby on Rails 1.1 has been released.

One of the major new features of 1.1 is the RJS templating language. (hint: it’s really just Ruby!)

RJS is a templating language that allows you to write JavaScript in a native Ruby style.

Some Good RJS Links

Cody Fauser’s Intro to Rails’ RJS
More on RJS and some of its advanced features
Rails JavaScript Generator Methods

Now, here’s an absolute Must-Have RJS Debugging Snippet to drop into your rhtml page when you’re playing around with this stuff:
[ruby]

[/ruby]

(via techno-weenie)

Cross-blogged at sablog.com.

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

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 overhead to the overall AJAX experience, but consider the potential problems you could encounter if you allow actions to happen on your server that you are not properly sanitizing.

Some popular applications I checked are hardened in such a way that they use some form of random sequence numbering: the server tells it, encoded, what the application should use as a sequence number when sending the next command. This is mostly obscured by Javascript and a pain in the ass to dissect — but not impossible.And as you may have already noted: if there is improper authentication on the location called by the XmlHttpRequest-object, this would leave a possibility for malicious purpose. This is exactly where we can expect weaknesses and holes to arise.There should be proper authentication in place. At all times.

Read the entire article: AJAX: Is your application secure enough?

(Via Slashdot, where there are some good comments on the article as well.)

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