Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, commonly known as Ajax is a web development tool that is used to create interactive web applications. It is mainly an amalgamation of several technologies, each having specialties of its own and becoming more powerful when integrated together. Ajax includes XTML and CSS for standard based presentation, Document Object Model for…
Category Archives: Ajax Resources
Online Ajax Tutorials – A New Approach to Learning to Create a Benchmark
It is the next generation web programming through Ajax. Web programmers are grabbing this opportunity to move from what is usually the case of the standard or classical technology used for web pages and introduce a new way for the server, browser and webpage to work simultaneously through Ajax. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and…
So – how do you find out more about Ajax and how it interacts with the system?
Before I found this weblog I though Ajax was something we used to clean the bathroom. (haha) Now I understand some of the potential weakness and strength that has to do with the scripting. I would like to know how others managed to find tutorials that were appropriate and learner friendly for the run of…
Practical Javascript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects
Practical Javascript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects picks up where Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax left off. Frank Zammetti’s practical guide to real-world JavaScript and Ajax will have you developing actual client-side apps in no time. As more of a hacker than a theoretician, this kind of guide appeals to me. Usually when…
Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax
Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax will take you from knowing absolutely nothing about JavaScript to being able to manipulate the DOM, build basic Ajax applications and more. Most of us who have been building websites since the pre-Ajax days learned JavaScript through a mish-mash of one-off scripts, validations, etc. If a book like…
Review: Beginning Ajax with PHP
Beginning Ajax with PHP (by Lee Babin) is a good introduction to learning JavaScript client-server techniques on the PHP platform. Some of the scenarios Lee walks you through: * Sexy client-side Calendars (that can be built / communicate with the server) * Auto-completion (a la GMail’s compose recipient, etc) * Form validation (that leverages Ajax)…
Huge list of Ajax tutorials
Just found this list of 126 Ajax Tutorials over the weekend — here’s a sampling: Ajax Workshop 3: Shopping Cart using Script.aculo.us at AjaxLessons Building an AJAX-Based Chat: The Barebones Structure at DevArticles Dynamically loaded articles at DHTMLGoodies Slide Show with Controls at Zapatec Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications at IBM Create…
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…
Pixsy – Image Search
Pixsy is indeed a upgraded image search. Apart from the fact that it does not use any third party service of Google or Yahoo! search like backbase , it is a powerful system of its own. Image search is the fastest growing vertical search category on the Internet today. To address the problem of finding…
Rail Adds Ajax
Version 1.1 of application development framework Rails went live earlier this week, with more than 500 fixes and additions, including simplified Ajax programming. (See Information Week for more.) “It makes Web application programming a lot more like desktop GUI [graphical user interface] programming,” said Jeremy Voorhis, lead architect at Planet Argon, a Portland, Ore., services…