Ajax Examples

Ruby On Rails Framework Adds AJAX Tools In Major Update

"The star addition to Rails 1.1 is RJS, which enables JavaScript calls in Ruby code and simplifies AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-style programming. Tasks that previously required more extensive coding and server calls can now be handled more concisely with RJS." Source: sys-con.com

Father of Ajax Heads Real-World Ajax

"Jesse James Garrett headlines the one-day Real-World Ajax Seminar being produced by SYS-CON Media at the San Jose Hilton on April 24. Garrett's presentation is entitled, "The Elements of User Experience," and the presentation will be a reprise of Garrett's successful presentation at the inaugural Real-World Ajax event in New York on March 13. Jesse James Garrett has been tracking the evolution of Ajax since, well, before it had a name! He is the Director of User Experience Strategy and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He is author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders), and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of information architecture." Source: sys-con.com

Alacra Store Unveils New Ajax-Driven User Interface

"Alacra, Inc., a leading provider of online business information solutions, announced today the launch of a new Ajax-driven Keyword Search in the Alacra Store (www.alacrastore.com). This enhancement, combined with Alacra's easy to use interface, enables business professionals to search for and discover reports from all of the premium database providers in the Alacra Store. Users can now search simultaneously for premium content from every publisher by keyword, date range, report price, content category, and database publisher. Additionally, users have the option to query and gather data on any company found within Alacra's expansive company universe." Source: tmcnet.com

Microsoft And Eclipse: A Showdown For Ajax Leadership

"Web users are getting spoiled. Once they experience the Ajax-powered speed and interactivity of apps on Google or Flickr, click-and-wait Web interfaces won't cut it. Spurred by growing business interest, Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, last week stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications." Source: informationweek.com

Comet: Beyond AJAX

"Alex Russell, who works at JotSpot and did the DOJO Toolkit for JavaScript is talking about Comet and low latency data to and from browsers (slides). The subtitle is “after AJAX.” The goal is responsiveness. AJAX gives you half the answer. AJAX is about me. Social applications are driven by others—the multiuser web. How do we send the datagrams that users make to each other." Source: irishdev.com

AJAX and LAMP boost Linux-based camera UI

"This technical article explains how Elphel used asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) to add advanced features to the user interfaces of its Linux-based network camera family. A unique AJAX architecture leverages a full LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) on the client side, providing richer functionality than a Javascript/XML-enabled browser alone could provide, especially in terms of interaction with local client-side mass storage devices, the author claims." Source: linuxdevices.com

AJAX and IE7?

"Many of the AJAX libraries out there have tons of duplicate functionality to handle cross-browser support. Recalling Microsoft's history of IE quirks, it seems likely that the new IE7 will have its own set of problems with regards to JS implementation. With the AJAX craze only growing, how are other developers and IT departments addressing this problem? Is this even a valid concern? While this is probably not an issue with ASP developers - especially with the release of Atlas - is this an issue for sites that use non-MS technologies?" Source: slashdot.org

Java Experts Predict AJAX Will Be Huge

"Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) was the rage at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas, as keynoters and panelist offered predictions and expectations for the future of development on the Java platform. Cedric Beust, an engineer at Google, said, "I think all the pieces are there on the server side. But I think we'll get a whole new ecosystem around Ajax. It's like a bad cold. More and more people are coming to this thing and we have a whole new excitement for Web sites we never had before, with things like mashups."" Source: au.sys-con.com

101 Common AJAX Questions Answered

"SitePoint (sitepoint.com), provider of fun, practical and easy-to-understand content for web professionals, announced the launch of "The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks." "This book was written for the new breed of JavaScript developers, to help them use this technology with intelligence, creativity, and empathy for end-users. It provides working solutions that take full advantage of all that JavaScript has to offer, while ensuring standards-compliance and accessibility," said SitePoint CEO and Co-founder Mark Harottle." Source: be.sys-con.com

Meet Ajax Write

"There is no registeration or anything of that sort. Go to the website, hit the “ajaxwrite’ button, a new window opens up, and while it looks like a cut rate wordprocessor, it gives you an interface that is remarkably familair - circa 1994." Source: gigaom.com

AJAX Isn't All Purpose Soap

This article provides with a thorough AJAX primer and gives a real-world illustration of its usefulness. it also demonstrates the benefits of AJAX using a test case application for a chemical sales company. Source: webpronews.com

Innoopract Proposes New AJAX Project for Eclipse

"Innoopract Informationssysteme is proposing this week at EclipseCon a new project to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers create AJAX-enabled applications using Eclipse technology and methodology. The Karlsruhe, Germany, company is proposing the Rich AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Platform, or RAP, Project, an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build rich, AJAX-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model, plug-ins and a Java-only API." Source: eweek.com

Exadel's component framework does some of the AJAX dev work for you

"Commercial tool provider Exadel is rolling out a Web component framework for building apps based on JavaServer Faces components. What's new is that the open source IDE takes some of the development work out of creating AJAX-enabled components. The Exadel Visual Component Platform 1.0, an open-source Eclipse-based framework, is designed to "hide" the complexities of the underlying technologies, by enabling developers to add, for example, AJAX capabilities without writing JavaScript code." Source: adtmag.com

XForms meets Ajax: Can they get along?

"When the W3C released a second edition of XForms this month as a recommendation for "new generation of Web forms," the question that begged to be asked was where does this fit into the Web development world where Ajax is the hot technology? The W3C touts the benefits of XForms as minimizing back-and-forth with the server and reducing the need for scripting. That might sound like a challenge to Ajax." Source: searchwebservices.techtarget.com

Microsoft Ships 'E-12' Code, Ajax RTC Client

"A flurry of news around Microsoft’s communications lineup last week included shipment of Exchange Server 12 beta to 1,400 testers and availability of Office Communicator Web Access, a lightweight Ajax-based client. A broader Beta 2 of “E-12” is due in mid-2006, with final code expected late that year or early the next, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said. When it ships, the product could capitalize on the planned concurrent rollout of Office 12. E-12 has “robust integration with those tools,” said Ken Winell, CTO of VisAlign, a King of Prussia, Pa., solution provider." Source: crn.com

AJAX-Based Echo2 Web Framework

"NextApp, Inc., today announced the availability of the open-source AJAX-based Echo2 Web Framework and commercially-licensed EchoStudio2 Visual Development Tool. Echo2 unifies AJAX technology with a practical server-side framework to create a next-generation web application platform. For web application developers, Echo2 provides a familiar and powerful component-oriented framework that promotes event-oriented design similar to traditional thick-client user interface toolkits like Java Swing or Eclipse SWT. Echo2 leverages AJAX technology to deliver rich internet applications that create a user experience normally reserved for desktop-based applications." Source: prnewswire.com

Real-World AJAX Seminar

"SYS-CON Events (www.sys-con.com) announced today the “Real-World AJAX One-Day Seminar” (www.ajaxseminar.com) to take place on Monday, March 13, 2005 in New York City. Delegate and sponsor registration information can be obtained at the conference website, www.ajaxseminar.com, as it becomes available. This one-day AJAX seminar will feature 15 speakers in 11 sessions, including the world’s most renowned AJAX experts: Jesse James Garrett, the Father of AJAX; David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails (with his very first talk on “AJAX in Rails”); Satish Dharmaraj, the creator of server-side Java; Bill Scott, AJAX evangelist of Yahoo!; Scott Dietzen, the creator of WebLogic; Rob Gonda, the bestselling AJAX author and evangelist; and Ross Dargahi, well-known AJAX evangelist and architect." Source: au.sys-con.com

Rob Gonda's Two-Part AJAX Special: Now In One Part

"Building an AJAX platform or engine from scratch can be a difficult and lengthy procedure. There are many AJAX engines available for download and you're welcome to use any of them. The only difference between implementations will be the data encoding, transmission, and decoding methods. The views and models of the MVC will be the same. My examples will be based on CFAJAX, a community-driven Open Source project. One of the problems with CFAJAX is its poor documentation. There is no manual or even a complete FAQ. So I will explain how to set it up step-by-step and work around its downside." Source: ne.sys-con.com

Microsoft uses Ajax to Web-enable corporate IM

"Microsoft on Tuesday released a Web-based version of its corporate instant-messaging software that gives users access when they are working remotely or from non-Windows computers. Gurdeep Singh Pall, a Microsoft corporate vice president, unveiled the product, Office Communicator Web Access, in a keynote at the Interop New York 2005 show. Office Communicator Web Access includes support for Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), a programming technology that enables developers to build applications that can be altered dynamically on a browser page without changing what happens on the server. The product provides a Web front end to Microsoft's Office Communicator desktop application, and is available to customers of Live Communications Server 2005 for immediate download at www.microsoft.com/rtc, said Paul Duffy, a senior product manager at Microsoft." Source: computerworld.com.au

Year in Review: AJAX Desktops and Homepages

"Home pages are making a comeback, thanks to AJAX and Flash-powered "desktop" applications. Inside, a look at seven desktop and homepage apps vying for your news feeds, bookmarks, and sticky notes." Source: publish.com

Desiging and Building With Ajax - slides, code and resources

Sample Ajax code from Adaptive Path's Designing and Building with Ajax workshop. Includes: "* Breakout presentation [PDF 528k] * Ajaxian maps code [7 megs] (this is big due to all the graphics included) * DWR and jsUnit code [2.1 megs] - this also includes an older version of the presentation above, you can ignore that. * Ajaxian RSS reader code - one version doesn't cache the data, the other does. Note that its hard-coded to put the data in a particular directory (/tmp) -- best make sure this exists before you use it." Source: ajaxian.com

AJAX Is Just the Beginning

"Developers everywhere are scrambling to understand and implement AJAX-based applications. It looks like it may be one of those rare new technologies—or old technologies successfully revitalized—that make us rethink how we publish and develop for the Web." Source: publish.com

Mastering Ajax Websites

"An anonymous reader writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article introducing the uninitiated to the world of Ajax. From the article: "Ajax, which consists of HTML, JavaScript technology, DHTML, and DOM, is an approach that helps you transform clunky Web interfaces into interactive Ajax applications. The author, an Ajax expert, demonstrates how these technologies work together. Ajax is more than just the latest fad -- it's your stepping stone to build better Web sites through efficient use of your time."" Source: Anonymous via Slashdot.org

Create an RSS Aggregator with AJAX and PHP

"Imagine using a simple HTML file to send a request to a server-side script, receive a custom XML file based on that request, and then display it to the user without ever refreshing the browser! Kris Hadlock explains how to use a combination of PHP and AJAX to create real-time data transfers in any application without a browser refresh." Source: informit.com