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Category Archives: JavaScript
Record a web-browsing session using neato AJAX-powered “web recorder”
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…
WWJUA – Where Would Jesus Use Ajax?
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…
Ajax without the X? – Good article about combining a generic Javascript new script engine with some PHP to deliver simple AJAX interactions
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…
ONJava.com: AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons
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…
Simple and clear example of how to create a MySQL connection with PHP/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…
Build an AJAX application in php in minutes with symfony
Build an AJAX application in php in minutes with symfony Easy Ajax in symfony Overview Symfony has Ajax helpers that make programming an elaborate interface a piece of cake. This tutorial will show you step-by-step how to create an Ajax-powered symfony application in minutes. This PHP framework presents a nice screencast demonstrating how easy it…
jsquery – AJAX JavaScript ResultSet with securable JDBC server side component
This is a very FAST AJAX implementation using server generated javascript and eval() as opposed to XML. Site includes full source code distribution with working examples. http://www.jsquery.com/ An implementation of an AJAX JavaScript data generation server, http client, and client result set Uses a JavaScript http client to dynamically map the results of data requests…
Adding Persistent Searches to GMail via Greasemonkey (& Ajax)
This is pretty cool. Say you have an often-performed search on your GMail archive – you can store that as a Persistent Search via a Greasemonkey plugin to Firefox. More details: Persistent searches (a.k.a. smart folders or saved searches) seem to be the feature du jour of email clients. Thunderbird has them, Evolution has them,…
WebORB Message Server Chat (with Google Maps)
If you really want to see a cool “Web 2.0” application, look no further than this sweet visual world / global chat system built by The Midnight Coders. It pretty much freaking rocks. From the site: This example demonstrates bi-directional messaging between heterogeneous (Flash and AJAX) clients and WebORB Message Server. The server performs additional…