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Ext JS Blog
Implementation Spotlight: cara3 from Generis
cara3, built on Ext GWT, is an ergonomically designed, fast, single browser window that connects individually or simultaneously to different document repositories, like Documentum and Sharepoint. ...
With many of our developers moving to Git for smaller internal projects, and with Ext JS 3.1.1 just released, we decided to take the opportunity to move development of Ext to Git. ...
HTML5, Video, Canvas, and Ext JS
HTML5 is coming. All of us at Ext are excited to embrace the new standard as it gains acceptance. This post will examine two notable HTML5 developments - Video and Canvas. The video tag allows for native video rendering, removing the current need for third-party plugins like...
Implementation Spotlight: Spiral Universe
Spiral 2.0 is a browser-based desktop used by schools to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve their management and administration. Built on Ext GWT, Spiral Universe has become the fastest growing School Information System available. ...
Ext JS 3.1: Massive memory improvements, TreeGrid, and more
On behalf of the Ext Team, I am extremely excited to announce the final release of Ext JS 3.1. With this release we rededicate ourselves to making Ext JS the best it can be, in both features and performance. ...
Creating a Custom Ext GWT Component
Creating custom Web components can prove challenging without a good foundation. Fortunately, the Ext GWT framework contains a Component API that provides the ability to quickly and easily create custom components while using Java. This post will walk you through the steps needed to create our ContentScroller -...
Google AJAX Search API Blog
New Parameter for Server Side API Calls
Over the last several years, you've helped make Google's AJAX APIs incredibly successful. Not surprisingly, however, there are some people who try to take advantage of these free APIs by using them in ways that they were not designed for, abuse which is prohibited by the Terms of Use....
I am happy to announce the addition of the ability to scope your searches to a specific country in the AJAX Web Search API. Now, if you have a lot of visitors in Madagascar, you can make sure that the search results displayed on your site are tailored to...
Google Chrome Frame Ajax Detection
In partnership with the Google Chrome Frame team, we are making available a library to allow your web application to detect the presence of Google Chrome Frame. We on the Ajax team are excited about the possibilities of this add-on improving JavaScript performance and enabling some of the new features...
More Languages, More Keyboards
The language APIs keep right on trucking, released recently are a handful of new translation languages, pairs, and keyboard layouts.We've added the ability to use machine translation to or from the following languages:AfrikaansBelarusianIcelandicIrishMacedonianMalayPersianSwahiliWelshYiddishWith the addition of the above the total count for language pair combination comes to a mind boggling...
Custom Search with Custom Style: Peanut Butter and Jelly
Creating a custom look and feel for your website can have significant benefits in everything from improving usability to setting a professional or playful tone for your website. In many cases, letting users search the content of your site and related sites gets them the information they need faster. After...
Behind the scenes with two AJAX API Developers
We enjoy featuring real-world applications that show how versatile the AJAX APIs can be. Below we're highlighting two very different apps and the developers who built them:AroundMeAroundMe is an iPhone application where the AJAX APIs are central to the user experience. Specifically, the app utilizes the Local Search API to...
MooTools
More Than Meets the Eye: Form.Request
MooTools More features a diverse, powerful collection of Classes (60 plugins!!) and some are my favorite tools that I use over and over again. I thought I’d take some time to dig into some of the plugins in MooTools More that I think are interesting and really useful that maybe...
Hello everyone, I’m really excited and pleased to announce that my presentation “MooTools as a General Purpose Application Framework” which I delivered at the FOSDEM is now available on YouTube. If you are not able to watch the HD-Version you can download the slides here. Thanks again to the FOSDEM team for inviting...
The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it’s all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins and tutorials that have been released recently. MooTools Driver for Rails 3 Helpers Rails 3...
MooTools More 1.2.4.3, 1.2.4.4
UPDATE: 1.2.4.4 is also released; there was a new bug in Tips introduced in 1.2.4.3 that was immediately patched. This is mostly a bug fix release. Nearly 50 bug fixes (see the milestone for 1.2.4.3 in Lighthouse). Keyboard: Added some support for just pressing ‘shift’, ‘control’, or ‘alt’ Added a bunch of keycodes for Mac...
MooTools Roundup December 2009
With the release of the Forge in December the way people contribute to MooTools has changed. The quality, amount, and the variety of plugins has amazed all of us. There are already more than 100 plugins available. In addition to that, Jacob Gube (SixRevisions) and MooTools contributor Garrick Cheung (@garrickcheung)...
MooTools 1.1 Upgrade Helper (beta)
Users wishing to upgrade any large site from MooTools 1.1 to 1.2 can sometimes find it difficult. The API for 1.2 changed quite a bit, so without help upgrading your code can be fraught with danger. Our solution is an upgrade helper that will allow you to replace your old MooTools...
Official jQuery Blog
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 14 – Phil Haack
This week Elijah and Ralph sit down and talk with Microsoft’s Phil Haack, Senior Program Manager on the ASP.NET team, currently working on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. We discuss their recent decisions to include jQuery into several of their products what ASP.NET MVC is and how jQuery is...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 13 – David Walsh
In this episode we sat down and talked with David Walsh, a developer for the MooTools JavaScript framework. We spent time comparing jQuery with MooTools and talked about how each community can help each other. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you...
jQuery 1.4.2 is now out! This is the second minor release on top of jQuery 1.4, fixing some outstanding bugs from the 1.4 release and landing some nice improvements. I would like to thank the following people that provided patches for this release: Ben Alman, Justin Meyer, Neeraj Singh, and Noah...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 12 – Rey Bomb 1
This week Elijah Manor is attending the MVP Summit at Microsoft so Ralph Whitbeck sits down with fellow Developer Relation members Rey Bango, Cody Lindley and Karl Swedberg. Additionally, we had Doug Neiner of Fuel Your Coding on to talk about everything jQuery. We discuss the reactions to 14 Days of...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 11 – Yehuda Katz
In our final episode from the 14 Days of jQuery recordings in Washington, DC, Ralph and Elijah sat down with Yehuda Katz, core team member of the Rails and jQuery teams. We discuss the new hooks that are coming in Ruby on Rails that allow it to use jQuery...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 10 – appendTo, LLC
During the 14 Days of jQuery recordings, Elijah and Ralph sat down with appendTo cofounders Mike Hostetler and Jonathan Sharp. We discuss the company’s mission, services and client experiences. appendTo, provides training, support and consulting services to programmers and end-user enterprises who adapt jQuery into their front-end web development strategies....
SproutCore Blog
creationix's node-router: Want to try node.js with SproutCore? Check out creationix’ node-router library which includes source code for a simple backend to the Todo’s tutorial....
Yay! SC.TableView is coming to SproutCore! The full...
Yay! SC.TableView is coming to SproutCore! The full implementation is not done yet (column resizing and reordering in particular are not fully functional) but the basics are working - it should be enough for most casual users today. You can see it in the demo code we just posted to samples: Go...
Why Does SproutCore Use Absolute Positioning to Layout Views?
Why Does SproutCore Use Absolute Positioning to Layout Views?...
We’re coming to JSConf 2010!...
"I expect music and to some extent video to stay in iTunes or similar venues. Terrified book..."
“I expect music and to some extent video to stay in iTunes or similar venues. Terrified book publishers who want their DRM will likely stay in the iBooks zone, though hopefully Apple will let braver publishers in there without DRM. Customers will expect to find “books” there. It’s also clear...
Testing and auto-generated ids in SproutCore
martinottenwaelter: If you’re trying to automate tests of your SproutCore application with Selenium, for example, you’ll realise that the HTML element ids are automatically generated. They change every now and then and break all your tests. To get rid of this problem, you can override the layerId method of certain view classes...
Yahoo! User Interface Blog
YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010 — Win a Ticket to JSConf 2010
We’re pleased to announce the YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010. Thanks to our friends at the Yahoo! Developer Network, we have a conference pass to the sold-out JSConf 2010 to offer. We’re pairing that with a $500 gift certificate to Expedia.com to help the prize winner get back...
Tom Hughes-Croucher is an evangelist for the Yahoo! Developer Network. Our friends over at JSMag are celebrating their first birthday. If you haven’t read JSMag it’s a monthly PDF magazine that covers news on hot JavaScript topics and provides practical tutorials. JSMag are giving away a free issue from their first year....
In the YUI 3 Gallery: Stephen Woods’ TimePicker Module
Stephen Woods works on frontend platforms at Yahoo! and has been working closely with YUI 3 and technologies related to the Yahoo! Home Page during the past year. You can find him at @ysaw and at stephenwoods.net I was working on an internal product here at Yahoo! that required...
Tickets Remaining for Wednesday’s Crockford on JavaScript
Continuing the Crockford on JavaScript lecture series (Videos: Part One, Part Two, Part Three), Douglas will be presenting Wednesday at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Attendance is free, but seating is limited (a few tickets remain for each of the final shows) — a full schedule including links to...
About the Author: Philippe Bernou is the founder and CEO of the French startup EtreProprio.com, a real estate website for individuals. After working for four years in Luxemburg on IBM technologies, he launched EtreProprio.com in 2008 with Aurélie Eav. EtreProprio.com aims to provide high quality classifieds for free (see an example...
In the YUI 3 Gallery: Checkbox Group Behaviors
John Lindal (@jafl5272 on twitter) is one of the lead engineers working on the foundation on which Yahoo! APT is built. Previously, he worked on the Yahoo! Publisher Network. Checkboxes and radio buttons are well known patterns for choosing from a small set of items. The former lets you...
Ajaxian » Front Page
Friday fun: Let’s translate YUI3 to jQuery
I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var $; YUI().use('*', function(Y){ $ = Y.get; for(var p in Y) { $[p] = Y[p]; } }); // test $('body').append("boo!"); In case you want to use YUI3 but really really like jQuery syntax :) OK, it breaks the whole sandboxing idea of YUI3, but...
Firefox gets hardware acceleration in early stage
Bass Schouten is a cool name, and the Mozillan has presented Direct2D hardware acceleration. You have to grab Firefox nightly, do the about:config / gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled game, but then you get to see it in action. IE9 showed off how they will support hardware rendering, and I am sure we will see more...
Color Picker: Works even in IE6
Works even in IE6 Love that quote from the color picker over at RaphaelJS land. This plugin by Dmitry Baranovskiy gives you an easy color picker in short order: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var icon = Raphael("picker", 23, 23).colorPickerIcon(11, 11, 10); icon.attr({cursor: "pointer"}).node.onclick = function () { document.getElementById("benefits").style.visibility = "visible"; var out = document.getElementById("output"); ...
Andrew Hoyer shows his canvas Fu with Cloth, a great experiment using nice physics. What makes this simulation special is the speed at which everything is computed. Javascript (the language this is written in) is not exactly the most efficient language for this type of computation. This being said, much time...
Fin: self updating template language
Marcus Westin has created a new templating language called fin. It is an interesting beast, and he gave us a run down: Since this past November I've been working on a realtime templating system I call "fin". I'd love to get some eyes on it, and hope that you'll find it...
Harmony: Bringing together great libraries to enable awesome JS testing in Ruby
Martin Aumont has released Harmony, which "provides a simple DSL to execute JavaScript and DOM code within Ruby." This enables you to do very cool things such as unit test JavaScript in the same area as your Ruby tests: PLAIN TEXT RUBY: require 'test/unit' require 'harmony' class JavascriptTest <Test::Unit::TestCase def setup @page = Harmony::Page.new ...
Google Web Toolkit Blog
GWT 2.0.3 has been released and is available for download here: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html This was a minor release that includes the following fixes: Using a PopupPanel in Internet Explorer without a history IFrame throws a NullPointerException (#4584) Opera support for History is not working (#3956) ...
GWT 2.0.2 has been released and is available for download here: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html This was a minor release that includes the following fixes: Standard.css missing new layout styles (#4429) Using a PopupPanel in Internet Explorer without a history IFrame throws a NullPointerException (#4584) ...
Putting test data in its place
Inevitably, as your app grows, you will find areas that involve consuming large amounts of textual data and performing some action as a result. You may be handling a JSON response, a serialized GWT RPC payload, or HTML that has been rendered on the server. In any case, you're a...
GWT Developers: Hope to see you at Google I/O
As you may have heard from our announcement this morning, registration for Google I/O is now open. In addition to publishing access to registration, we've also included event details on the I/O website. We already have quite a few Google Web Toolkit I/O sessions and Developer Sandbox demos lined up, and...
Introducing Google Web Toolkit 2.0, now with Speed Tracer
Earlier tonight, we wrapped up a very exciting Campfire One at which we announced that GWT 2.0 is now officially available. In addition to major improvements in the GWT SDK and the Google Plugin for Eclipse, GWT 2.0 includes a brand new performance analysis tool for Chrome called Speed Tracer. Introducing...
New insights into web application performance
I've sometimes thought that optimizing web applications is as much a science as dowsing. (No offense intended, dowsers of the world — but you have to admit it's a hard thing to explain even when it does work out.) Even when you are completely willing to invest time and energy...
Prototype JavaScript framework - blog
Documentation: not just new, but also improved
When we officially released 1.6.1 last week, we also published new documentation, the first official docs generated with PDoc....
Core Team update: Andrew & Tobie take the reins
In addition to releasing Prototype 1.6.1, I’m pleased to announce that Andrew Dupont and Tobie Langel now officially head up the Prototype Core Team. They’ll be in charge of maintaining Prototype, deciding what makes the cut for new releases, and handling day-to-day operations....
We’re pleased to announce the release of Prototype 1.6.1 today. This version features improved performance, an element metadata storage system, new mouse events, and compatibility with the latest browsers. It’s also the first release of Prototype built with Sprockets, our JavaScript packaging tool, and PDoc, our inline documentation tool....
Prototype 1.6.1 RC3: Chrome support and PDoc
Today we’re announcing Release Candidate 3 of Prototype 1.6.1. Among the highlights of this release are official Chrome support, improved IE8 compatibility, faster generation of API documentation with PDoc, and lots of bug fixes....
Prototype 1.6.1 RC2: IE8 compatibility, Element storage, and bug fixes
Today we tagged the first public release candidate of Prototype 1.6.1. (What happened to RC1? Long story.) While there are more minor fixes we’d like to get into this release, we decided an interim release was necessary because of the final release of Internet Explorer 8 last week....
Sprockets: Beautiful and angular
Over at SvN, Sam announced the 1.0 release of Sprockets, the new dependency management and concatenation tool that makes it easy to modularize your JavaScript. Sprockets is Prototype’s new build system, but it’s also been extracted into a Ruby library so you can use it anywhere you write JavaScript....
Pathfinder Development
Pathfinder sponsoring Day of Mobile in Chicago
Day of Mobile is happening this Saturday, and Pathfinder is proud to be sponsoring the event. This should be a very cool event , and we're excited about interacting with other mobile developers in the Chicago area. We look forward to seeing you there! ...
photo credit: moonlightbulb Refactoring versus Rewriting I started my first real Agile software development project in 1999. I'd been doing more traditional software development before then all the way back to 1980. I won't bore you with the details of those earlier projects, but my feeling was that there had to be...
Instead of a "loading" animation that we may bail out on, why not tell a story? I was impressed with this technique used by BMW. They are running banner ads on NBC's site which hypes the upcoming Olympic events. You see a car in the banner ad, you expect to...
So, it's little Stevie Jobs' birthday today. Certainly he's been influential in the world of digital computing. But when folks wax on and wax off about how great some of these more recent figures in computing have been, I like to remind them of some of the all-time greats. It...
mort_calc gem: Rails Mortgage Calculation Gem
Ruby gem for calculating APR Pathfinder Development - creating innovative software that builds business value. mort_calc gem: Rails Mortgage Calculation Gem Related posts:Launched: Rapid Reporting Employment ChekInstalling Edge Ferret/acts_as_ferretRails Performance, Code Metrics, and Locking Down your Application: Tips & Tricks from Windy City Rails 2008...
Where the iPad will take over: 15 examples
There's still a lot of internet chatter about why you'd want a tablet anyway. I think there's a big space between the laptop and the iphone, and that in particular, the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch will take over from a lot of purpose built devices that...
Ajax Blog
Patterns being patterns, theres not a lot of unseen information here. Patterns are just a concise way to represent the knowledge embodied in the many AJAX applications that are out there. The point is to discover best practices by investigating how developers have successfully traded off conflicting design principles. AJAX...
Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Framework
Ajax is a popular technology that is used in many different ways on the World Wide Web. It has become a technology of choice for building fast and responsive user interface. This artical takes a brief look at the features of some of the more widely used ASP.NET Ajax frameworks. The...
A simple feedback of AJAX for beginners
Website script holds large importance as far as popularity and usage convenience are concerned. As an innovative web language AJAX may not be very popular as it has come quite recently as compared with other web languages which have been around for last 10 years or more. For beginners a...
A Typical Life Cycle or Process of AJAX Life cycle of AJAX is more similar to a traditional GUI than a traditional web application. It has DOM objects who acts like GUI widgets. The used script has capacity to register even listeners on DOM objects and respond accordingly after manipulating DOM....
AJAX: Introduction and Advantage
Basics of AJAX: AJAX is defined or termed as Asynchronous Javascript and XML. It’s a new avtar of modern day website creation. AJAX is one of the programming techniques which has primarily made popular after 2005 by Google. No doubt about it that AJAX has set innovative and new standads of...
ASP.NET: Disable, Enable Validator Using Javascript
Doing this is pretty easy, if you know how or what method to use. I wanted to disable a Validator for a province TextBox if the country DropDownList chosen is USA because the state DropDownList will be enabled so the province should be inactive. Doing this server-side may be...
AJAX Magazine
Visual WebGui based web applications automated IDE built with $300,000 savings
Visual WebGui are sharing with us today a new interesting case study for a web applications automated IDE built with Visual WebGUI : Automato. "Visual WebGui turns web dreams into reality in a very gracious way while Automato makes it......
Alpha Software Launches Alpha Five Version 10 with Codeless Ajax Technology
Every day, companies announce new products and call them revolutionary, breakthrough, innovative, and game changing. It's not often that a new product actually lives up to that kind of billing. Today is one of those days, with the official......
Vaadin, Free Java UI Framework
Vaadin is a Web application framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). In contrast to Javascript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions it features a server-side architecture, which means that the majority of the logic runs on the servers. AJAX technology......
CopperLicht, fast WebGL JavaScript 3D Engine
WebGL is getting hot after being supported by modern browsers Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Now you can even create amazing apps with CopperLicht, a fast JavaScript 3D engine for creating games and 3d applications in the webbrowser. It uses the......
ItsNat Natural Ajax v0.7 Released
ItsNat is a server centric Java AJAX web framework with the same style of programming as the client, because ItsNat approach is "The Browser Is The Server" (TBITS). ItsNat simulates a Universal W3C Java Browser in the server, client......
Websync, .NET and IIS Comet Server
If you are looking to turn your IIS, ASP.NET server into a highly scalable HTTP Comet/Reverse Ajax server, your solution could be called Websync, by Frozen Mountain Software. Websync is cool, because unlike every other comet server currently available, it......
ComponentArt
Dashboards Made Easy - The DrillDownManager Control
The usability and value of most modern dashboards becomes seriously questioned if the data shown is fixed, and the user does not have the ability to zoom in or drill-down into the data to a more detailed view. Implementing this functionality can sometimes be a time consuming task - a...
Simplifying the WCF Service Connection - The WcfServiceDataProvider control
WcfServiceDataProvider is a handy new control introduced to the Silverlight and WPF suite of controls in the 2010.1 release. The control is somewhat different from most of the other controls. It has no visual aspect to it (hence the pictureless blog post) and its sole purpose is to simplify the task of...
Along with ComponentArt UI Framework 2010.1 for Silverlight and WPF comes fantastic new funtionality for our ItemFlow control, the ability to utilize live XAML content within ItemFlowItems. This brings to bear endless possiblities, anything from a simple form wizard spanning multiple ItemFlowItems to nesting an entire ItemFlow within an ItemFlowItem....
HOWTO: Using ComponentArt Themes with your Web.UI AJAX/MVC controls
With Web.UI 2010, ComponentArt has introduced the ability to quickly apply a pre-built stylized design to UI controls in the form of Themes. This allows developers to concentrate on the functional behavior of the control, as design concerns are essentially moved into CSS. This has the added benefit of cleaning...
Customizing Axis Annotation Schemes in Silverlight Charts
As my previous blog post mentioned, the sophisticated axis annotation mechanism is one of the most useful features of the Silverlight Chart control released with Web.UI 2009.3. It allows the programmer to just drop the data into the chart and not worry too much about how the axis annotation labels...
Silverlight Chart: Overview of Chart Types
This blog post lists all the chart types that Silverlight Chart supports. They are divided into several sections: bar charts, pie and doughnut charts, area charts, line charts, marker and bubble charts and financial charts. Next to each chart type illustration we provide the XAML code block that generated it. Bar Charts The following bar chart...
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