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Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Google, of late, has been stepping up its public contributions to the world of frontend engineering: Gears, GWT, Doctype, and Google I/O are all manifestations of this assertive public disposition. And it’s no surprise that some of this engagement with the discipline stems from the hiring last year of Ajaxian cofounder Dion Almaer. [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The team at Dojo have been really working hard to improve their documentation and put more information in the hands of Dojo developers. Between DojoCampus.org and the SitePen blog, they've really come a long way to providing solid education material for the Dojo community. Normally, the Ajaxian Featured Tutorial consists of one really good educational [...]
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The effect of “sliding panels” has become extremely popular for categorizing & displaying large amounts of data on a single page. One of the most notable implementations of this effect was done by Panic to display all of the features and benefits of their Coda web development IDE. Since then, many implementations of this effect [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The effect of “sliding panels” has become extremely popular for categorizing & displaying large amounts of data on a single page. One of the most notable implementations of this effect was done by Panic to display all of the features and benefits of their Coda web development IDE. Since then, many implementations of this effect [...]
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techno.blog("Dion") (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
I was really excited to launch the AJAX Libraries API (I know, I know, I hate typing “AJAX” too…. haven’t you seen the rotating header on Ajaxian? ;) at Google I/O this week. The only problem with the timing was that at the same time that it was getting picked up by the trade rags, Wired, [...]
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The Future of the Web (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
You may have heard that Google is hosting a number of Ajax APIs , including jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools and dojo. Ajaxian actually has a good write-up of the benefits of this hosting. Long story short: Google's servers do caching and gzip compression as good or better than most of us know how to do, plus their web hosting is collocated and fast . On top of that, if we all were to...
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Webware.com (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
SAN FRANCISCO--Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, founders of Ajaxian , took the stage at the Google IO conference here Wednesday morning to talk about one of the technologies that has helped define Web 2.0, and is of course their area of expertise: Ajax. The technology is one of the things that made Gmail stand out among its other Web mail brethren, with messages and an entire in-box that would load...
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Eric Miraglia has posted a great tutorial on how to build your first YUI application. He runs you through the steps of creating a simple application that leverages YUI’s AutoComplete Control to create a site-search form powered by the Yahoo!’s Search web service. The tutorial is a great walkthrough of both how to build the [...]
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, and Alex Russell, along with the Pragmatic Programmers themselves have been kind enough to give the Ajaxian community some exclusive extracts from the Mastering Dojo beta book. What do we have on the docket? First, we have details on the Dojo DOM Apis. Specifically, the author takes us through a challenge involving interview [...]
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
We are having a special week at Ajaxian. Ben and I are giving an Ajax talk at JavaOne this week, and decided to put a little video from Ajax pioneers. As we worked out what we wanted to do, we asked the pioneers for a little time to do an interview. Although only a piece [...]
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Kristopher William Zyp has written a post on how to use YSlow to analyze the performance of JavaScript applications. To understand what aspects of a Web application you need to improve, you must properly analyze the components of the application. This article looks at how you can use the Firebug extension to Firefox and the [...]
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Prototype JavaScript Framework (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Dion Almaer just posted on Ajaxian an interview of Prototype creator Sam Stephenson – the first of a series on Ajax pioneers. Sam talks about the future of Prototype, shares his thoughts on the current state of browsers, and discusses some of the upcoming tools we’re busy working on (PDoc, Sprockets, etc.). So, without further ado:
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Yokway (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
There is the David. There is the Mona Lisa. And then, the artist has to create the Homer. Posted: 44 minutes ago by stephane
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techno.blog("Dion") (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
I was sitting in a session at Web 2.0 Expo last week with Salil Deshpande, one of the original investors and advisors to Ajaxian and a former boss at CustomWare. (Salil is now a VC at Bay Partners, and you can follow his new blog here). We started on the observation that the bay stacks up [...]
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
March has flown by for me, and we had some great announcements, and some busy threads of discussion to show for it. The Webkit folk have had the great insight to realize that although SVG and canvas are still thought of as more advanced technology and are not mainstream in anyway, the problems that they [...]
