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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......
The new version offers upgraded performance, scalability and complete developer and designer freedom to design and customize Web 2.0 like user interfaces Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform announced today the release of its Visual WebGui 6.4......
DHTMLX team has announced the availability of version 2.1 of dhtmlxScheduler, a lightweight and highly customizable Ajax calendar component for creating rich scheduling UI. The update includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, and introduces the following new features: -......
AMPLE SDK, Open Source JavaScript GUI Framework
Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript GUI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL, SVG or HTML5) for UI layout, CSS for UI style and JavaScript for application logic. It equalizes browsers......
Gizmox Reveals Cloud Apps Platform at Microsoft PDC
Today Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui Web & Cloud Platform, will reveal its innovative cloud application platform which will allow developers and enterprises to deploy their applications to Windows Azure with the click of a button with no re-writes......
SRP-Hermetic, New Ajax Security Library
SRP-Hermetic, a JavaScript library which aims at providing a highly secure Ajax channel implementation (MIT license). Authentication is based on the SRP protocol, and messages can be signed using HMAC or fully encrypted using AES. An interesting implementation providing secure......
ComponentArt
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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Adding Labels and Additional Controls to Silverlight Gauges
As most people reading these blogs are aware by now, the recently released Web.UI 2009.3, introduces a powerful Silverlight Gauges control. One of the features that makes this control really powerful is the ability to insert additional Silverlight controls within a gauge. The idea is for these controls to be fitted...
Silverlight Chart Drilldown, Part Two: Adding a BreadCrumb Control
In my previous blog post, Silverlight Chart Drilldown: Part One, I described the steps necessary to create a drill-down chart using ComponentArt's Silverlight Chart. To navigate backwards to higher levels of drill-down we used a simple button that would take us back one level at a time. In this blog...
One Size Doesn't Fit All: RangeSlider and Its Motley Crew of Axii
Standard Silverlight Slider comes with the baked-in numeric axis. While this is sufficient for working with, well, numeric data, it requires extra plumbing to map numeric values to any other data type or collection of data points, including writing a value converter for use in data binding. Apart from having an...
Ext JS Blog
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 -...
Advanced Plugin Development with Ext JS
When creating a cross browser RIA, choosing a framework with a plethora of components is where most of us look first. Selecting a framework that enables you the flexibility to enhance and expand its offering becomes very important. Fortunately, Ext JS has all the rich UI functionality that...
We are very excited to share our latest version of the Ext JS Designer. This new version adds many new features to improve your efficiency creating application designs. Once you get accustomed to these features its difficult to live without them. For those of you that don't have...
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
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...
The Official MooTools Plugins Repository Is Here!
If I was to highlight the single most important thing for MooTools in 2009, I would say without a doubt it’s been its community. This year has seen the involvement of many individuals from all over the world that have contributed their time, expertise, talent and charm. Our San Francisco...
Anyone that follows any MooTools Core Developer or Contributor on Twitter may have seen us talking about a ‘hackathon’. Last weekend a large number of the dev team met up in London to work on various parts of the framework. We thought we’d share with you what we got up...
MooTools Depender - A Build Tool for MooTools JavaScript Libraries
As mentioned in the new features in MooTools More in 1.2.4.1, there’s a new plugin called Depender which uses MooTools dependency mappings to allow you to lazy load additional scripts on the fly based on what you need. Rather than list every single file you depend on, you just list...
MooTools Roundup - October 2009
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. MooShell MooShell, created by Piotr Zalewa (zalun), is...
Official jQuery Blog
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 9 – David Artz, Aol.
In this prerecorded episode from Washington DC, we sit down with David Artz, Director of Website Optimization at Aol. David talks to us about the conviences and challenges of using jQuery at the enterprise level. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you...
14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 8-14, jQuery 1.4.1 Released
In case you’re not following along with the 14 days of jQuery, here’s a summary of what has been released for days 8-14. Highlights On Day 12, the jQuery team released jQuery 1.4.1, the first bug release to jQuery 1.4. jQuery 1.4.1 is now the latest release of jQuery; take a...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 8 – api.jquery.com
In this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with Karl Swedberg and Paul Irish about the new api.jquery.com documentation site. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes via...
14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 1 – 7
In case you’re not following along with the 14 days of jQuery, here’s a summary of what has been released thus far. Pre Release Day 1 New jQuery API Site Pre Release Day 2 jQuery 1.4rc1 Day 1 jQuery 1.4 Released jQuery 1.4 Live Q&A Day 2 HD version of jQuery 1.4 Q&A Media Temple Giveaway jQuery Podcast episode 7 with...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 7 – jQuery 1.4 Release (John Resig)
In this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with John Resig after the live uStream keynote to get more insight into the jQuery 1.4 release. You can subscribe to...
Big News: jQuery 1.4 has been released! Head on over to the 14 Days of jQuery site to see the full details: jQuery 1.4 Released Also Media Temple has just started their 15 prizes for 14 days of jQuery contest. Submit cool uses of jQuery and enter to win free hosting or...
SproutCore Blog
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...
Tasks: In case you haven’t been following the mailing list, Suvajit Gupta and some associates have been working on a really nifty software planning tool called Tasks. They are using Tasks to plan some large software projects internal to their own company and they are also adding features we need...
“So again, the question isn’t Sproutcore vs. jQuery. In fact, you can (and probably will) use jQuery if you develop Sproutcore apps. The question really isn’t even Sproutcore vs. Flash vs. Silverlight, but it’s so easy to frame it up like that. The point of Sproutcore is that it provides...
"But chances are, you know that, and don’t need to be convinced of the wonder of animation. So,..."
“But chances are, you know that, and don’t need to be convinced of the wonder of animation. So, instead, I will tell you about the beginnings of SproutCore’s support for animation.” - Alex Iskander on the new SC.Animatable ...
The Dojo Toolkit blogs
1.4.1 release candidate 1 is ready
The 1.4.1rc1 release is now available for testing at http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.4.1rc1/ Given the timing of the Firefox 3.6 release, this is a great opportunity to test for regressions. Please try testing on the new Firefox release (or any other browser) and report your results by EOB Friday. Thanks!...
3-day Online Dojo Conference - dojo.connect
This year we wanted to create an Dojo Conference / Event that is more inclusive for the Dojo Community than our traditional Dojo Developer Days. To that end, we have established a Dojo Conference, dojo.connect to provide an online virtual conference so that more people may attend and...
There are a lot of great new features in the 1.4 release, all of which are document in the release notes. I just wanted to document a few of the especially big changes in dijit: - Jared has done a lot of work on Editor, split between dijit.Editor and...
New Dojo release ready for consumption: 1.4.0
... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date. While this release is...
Hi all, A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket). If all looks good we'll make the...
Hi Dojo-ers, Almost there on the 1.4 release... we just put out the first (and hopefully only) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket). Thanks! Bill...
Yahoo! User Interface Blog
YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Volume 1: The Early Years”
In the first part of Douglas Crockford’s five-part series on the JavaScript programming language, he explores the historical context from which JavaScript emerged. But he begins with a little bit of his own history, relating his efforts as a child to build a homemade computer: I found some pieces of...
Fybit Riatrax4Js: Program YUI in Java
About the Author: Erol Koç is a co-founder of Fybit, a Switzerland based startup company. Before joining Fybit, he worked as a software architect for a security company where he was the tech lead for the product’s web frontend. He has an MS degree in computer science from ETH Zurich. During an internship at IBM,...
The YUI Team is Looking for a World-Class Engineer to Work on Frontend CI, Build Systems, and QA
If working alongside people like Douglas Crockford and on the team that created YUI (Matt Sweeney, Adam Moore, Dav Glass, Jenny Donnelly, Luke Smith, Tripp Bridges, Allen Rabinovich, Alaric Cole, Satyen Desai, and others) sounds like a good way to spend your time, read on: We’re hiring. We’re looking for a...
Crockford on JavaScript: Night One Recap, and More Tickets Released
About 200 people gathered in URLs Café at Yahoo! last night to take in the first installment of the Crockford on JavaScript lecture series. Douglas took the audience through a selective history of computer science and programming languages, focusing on the evolution of those features and conventions that would...
In the Wild for January 19, 2010
News and notes follow from the past week in the YUI community. As always, please let us know via the comments or @yuilibrary if we missed something good. YUI DataTable, TabView and More on SpokenWord.org (thanks, @dougkaye): Doug Kaye wrote in to tell us about YUI use at SpokenWord.org, his...
In the Wild for January 10, 2010
News and notes from the YUI community over the past month…let us know in the comments or at @yuilibrary if we missed something important: Sacramento Bee Using YUI DataTable and AutoComplete for Legislator Voting Record Explorer: Kamal Gill noted a great use of YUI DataTable and AutoComplete on the Sacramento Bee...
Ajaxian » Front Page
jsContract: Design by Contract library
Fan of Eiffel or the design by contract pattern that it espouses? Øyvind Kinsey is, and he just created jsContract an alpha library to give you some pre and post condition abilities. Here is an example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function _internalMethod(a, b){ Contract.expectNumber(a); Contract.expectNumber(b); Contract.expectWhen(config.mode === "divide", b> 0, "Divisor cannot be...
User scripts becoming more portable with Greasemonkey support in Chrome
Aaron Boodman created Greasemonkey back in the day. He also worked on Gears. And most recently he created Chrome Extensions. I have a funny feeling that folks were pinging him daily "hey, when ya gunna give me Greasemonkey on Chrome" and he just delivered: One thing that got lost in the...
LunaScript: A new language and platform to take your Web 2.0 apps to the moon?
A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc). Well, they may not have...
SVG-Edit is a nifty open source editing web app that uses SVG and doesn't need a server-side: The SVG-Edit team recently announced SVG-Edit 2.4, code named Arbelos. New features include: - Raster Images - Group/Ungroup - Zoom - Layers - Curved Paths - UI Localization - Wireframe Mode - Change Background - Draggable Dialogs - Resizable UI (SVG icons) - Convert Shapes...
Google isn’t Evil. Flash isn’t Dead; Thank god the Open Web doesn’t have a single vendor
The following post is a reprint from my personal blog. It is editorial in nature and even delves into random politics. I apologise. You can deal with it though :) Steve Jobs didn't hold back when talking about Google and Adobe. That is great. Life is so much more fun when...
fullscreen API coming to browsers near you?
What can you do if you want to enable a fullscreen experience on the Web? You can't. Or, use Flash. Some claim that you shouldn't offer this ability as it is a security liability. Someone can put a fullscreen view that tricks the user into giving it information. However, as much...
Google Web Toolkit Blog
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...
The enterprise (apps) in your pocket
When building great enterprise apps for our users many of us often first target the desktop user. Did you know that GWT lets you just as easily build great user interfaces for your mobile users? Modern mobile phones such Android based devices and the iPhone ship will powerful web browsers which...
Building Enterprise web apps in the cloud
An important decision to make when building a web application is how to coordinate state between client and server. This includes how to create appropriate representations of your data to send over the wire. There are many possible approaches. I'd like to present a straightforward one from Jerome Breche, CEO of TimZon,...
At the recent Search Marketing and Expo East Conference (SMX) several members of the Google Web Toolkit team delivered a presentation on making AJAX enabled web apps crawlable. This presentation included a proposal that is currently in the works which aims to solve the fundamental problem that it is difficult...
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
How Would Steve Jobs Pitch YOUR Product?
It's no accident that Steve Jobs is arguably the ultimate technology pitch-man. He's worked with some of the best designers, ad agencies and creative people on the planet even since the early days of Apple. But how would he pitch your idea? It's a fun question to ask and I...
iPad: How big is the space between laptops and iPhones?
Laptops are a strange, inefficient tradeoff between an iPhone’s portability and a desktop’s capabilities. They don’t satisfy either need extremely well, but they’re much closer to desktops than they are to iPhones. The usefulness and portability gap between a laptop and an iPhone is staggeringly vast ... Ergonomics are awful...
A Slight Correction to using PureMVC with Vaadin
photo credit: suki_fotografiert A while back I looked at the Vaadin Plugin and tried to make it work with the Multiton PureMVC. Back then I proposed the following code: public static ApplicationFacade getInstance() { if (instance == null) { // nuke the multiton so we...
iPad: Instant Reaction to Apple’s Tablet Event
I just finished looking at a couple of live blogs on Apple's big iPad event, flipping back and forth between Macworld and Ubergizmo's coverage. While initial reaction has been all over the map, mine is overwhelmingly positive. I think they hit a grand slam. Here's why: 1. There are lots of...
Apple Earnings Call: 90% of iPhone Apps Approved within 2 Weeks
Anther interesting item from yesterday's earnings call: Over 90% of iPhone apps are approved within 14 days of submission. Given over 100,000 apps in the store from a wide variety of developers (from amateurs to experts) and a wide variety of topics, that's actually pretty good. Apple claims that most rejections...
Apple’s Earnings Call: Enterprise iPhone Adoption Growth
Macworld’s Coverage of Apple’s Quarterly Results and Finance Call had some interesting news on continued enterprise iPhone adoption: The iPhone is ranked #1 in customer satisfaction in J.D. Powers' survey. Corporate clients have doubled. 70% of Fortune 100 are actively piloting or deploying iPhone. About 50% of FT 100 are doing the...
Ajax News
Region should get cut of Ajax casino cash
It always amazes us what gets people excited enough to pick up a pen, click a mouse or dial a number to give their thoughts on something they have seen in the paper or on our website....
Gun, drugs seized in Ajax bust
A stolen handgun was recovered by police as part of a drug investigation Thursday night in Ajax....
No train, but a glorious railway relic
A level railway crossing in Ajax that irritates local drivers connects to a time when wealthy people a ' even kings and queens a ' rode the rails in sumptuous style....
Obsolete level crossing driving frustrated motorists off the rails
A railway line to nowhere is a boxcar of aggravation for drivers who approach it at a level crossing....
Contraband smokes trial set for April
An Ajax, Ont. man busted twice within four months for allegedly trying to transport illegal tobacco on the Trans-Canada Highway in western Newfoundland will be going to trial April 20....
Among Canadians missing in Haiti are Edme Jean-Baptise, 32, of Ajax, shown at left with one of his three sons, Edem, 2; Yvenson Noel, 33 of Montreal, top right; and James W. Coates, 37 of Deer Lake, Nfld....
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...
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