Ajax Girl

This site has a huge list of programming cheat sheets - not directly AJAX related, however, you have to write code to work with AJAX…

Check out the list:

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/yuppi/links/cheatsheets.html

It recently came to our attention that not everyone knows about two critical free tools for any type of AJAX development.

http://www.jslint.com/lint.html

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html

JSMin is a tool for compressing Javascript. It will strip your white-space and comments so that all that is left is code….you know, the good stuff. It does not obfuscate the code, just shrinks it.

JSLint will check your Javascript for basic coding issues. You gotta try them both!

ajaxpatterns.org has a nice listing of AJAX frameworks; everythign from .Net to Coldfusion, from Java to Smalltalk and C++.

http://ajaxpatterns.org/Ajax_Frameworks

There is even the beginnings of a Comparison Matrix.

Years ago, Adam Bosworth coined the term DHTML - as in Dynamic HTML. Jesse James Garrett re-labeled DHTML as “AJAX” If you have not seen this clip - you should. Watch it and pay close attention to what is said, as well as what is not said. Notice that AJAX is not just about Email, or Maps, or Calendars; it is in fact about providing a rich user experience when it is needed. Everyone knows this already or at least they should.

The GWT (Google Web Toolkit) is essentially VB for AJAX. The first version is nice, but the next version will be more realistically usable. There will come a point in time when writing AJAX guts like XMLHttpRequest will be like writing Assembly code. You’ll be able to do it, but you will probably want to use a GWT-like library and some type of AJAX library aware IDE.

The browser, is a platform in and of itself. In some ways it is kind of like Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. The browser is windows and the logic and file-access is all DOS. So at some point it’s possible we’ll see a better integration between the UI and the back-end. Right now, the best tool for this is probably GWT, however, it’s not perfect and it doesn’t let you use Java 5 yet. The whole key to GWT is the compiler. It essentially translates code into separate pieces that allow you to break the app into two pieces the server side and of course the client side. (Feels like the early 90’s all over again).

The single thing that is going to make AJAX frameworks/toolkits/libraries great is when the client-side runtime is standardized. This means, at some point the framework code that runs in the client (events, rendering, code-management, et al) will need to be unified so that it won’t matter so much what the back-end is. Ideally anyways. The other added benefit of this is that you should be able to have the same experience regardless of the host platform (Operating System) and regardless of the browser. That being said, their will probably be two: one for Microsoft and one for everyone else. Which is kind of a necessary evil for Microsoft to preserve their platform. The irony of this is that as Microsoft keeps building their product pyramid and enhancing their platform, they inadvertently create a platform to compete against which is the obviously named “non-MS platform”. Oh – it has other names like “Open Source”.

Please share your thoughts.

Kool IM (http://www.koolim.com/). is an all new web based instant messaging service. Though in Alpha stage it supports 6 instant messaging services all together - AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ and apart from all that jabber. AJAX is used in the application very well and Kool IM hardly have any known problem. It has a registration option which enable to take advantage of saving and managing user’s network accounts and more. Meebo and e-messenger were the two most popular web based IM services which are ruling from last few months, Kool IM is a very hard contender for them as it also supports ICQ, which neither meebo nor e-messenger does.
Meebo and e-messenger in recent months have developed a new problem of banishment in some schools and colleges by authorities in order stop children from using Instant messaging. Well, Kool IM can be a great solution for them . A support forum and a blog is also available. As per what I checked, Kool IM is supported on Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.5.0.4 and Opera 9.0 .

Niner Niner, a collaborative weblog network, has over 25 great blogs and this “Best Of” highlights just a few of the posts that were written by some of the Niner authors, in topics that range from High Heels, Ajax, HIPAA Privacy Regulation to gadgets, books and health.

Blogging Naked: Scarification and lip plates are shown to be some of the newest and more popular form of “self-expression” in recent years.

Bookadoodle: Nancy Callahan posted more in her series “Getting Published” and this latest edition was part 5.

Boomer 2.0 had posts that pointed out that boomers can still have that second career and another that shows many are not even planning retirement anytime soon.

In Class Action Questions find out about lawsuits involving pyramid scams, hair raising beauty product claims and why State Farm was penalized.

Credit Cardenza: Unfortunately, millions of people are drowning in credit card debt, have to worry about credit scams and fraud, and let’s not even talk about the international fees.

Dealsneak managed to sneak more than a few deals pass us this summer including, the Samsonite laptop case, a gorgeous leather bench, and a sweet looking Thermaltake Tsunami computer case.

Feed Money discusses the fact the Ebay has jumped on the contextual ad bandwagon as well as blog feeds and a program called RSS To Blog.

If you need to Fix Your Finances one of the first steps is learning how to save your money. After that you can check out Mvelopes to learn all about budgets.

At Games For Money you can find places to play free online gambling games and also learn some card counting tricks and tips.

The High Heels Blogs show us which killer heels are on sale including boots, sandals, slides and mules. Also take a look at some killer wedding heels for this summers nuptials.

A few notable gadgets that were blogged in the HyperGadget blog were the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, and the jumbled and messy looking organizer.

Over at the Medcare Forum, Kathleen Milazzo tells us more about that scary mad cow disease and our medical privacy laws.

Find out just how much house you can afford before you go running off to get that mortgage. And is the housing bubble really ready to blow? All this and more in Mortgage Updates.

At My Secret Side Biz learn how to make a profit, how to get your own powerwash, and simple business and Ebay tips.

On Healthy Living: Sarah White tells us all about a new study that could help with asthma reduction when it comes to do light exercise that involves stead breathing like yoga.

On Movies has a decade of super heroes list that includes recent and unreleased movies. Leafworks reviewed The Omen and we got to see the trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie.

Powersellers Blog: Ebay has done it. They finally reached 200 million members and they are also expanding into new ideas. Also people are fed up with Paypal while crooks are finding more ways to defraud your account.

Seo Updates: Yahoo one of the biggest email services was hit with a worm and Google expanded into real estate but won’t be making a browser, at least not anytime soon.

Get some free exercise tips from The Diet Logs. You will certainly need them if you plan to take a bite of this $100 burger.

Living the Single life? Well take a look at some great break up lines and if your looking to meet people Leafworks posted a great review of club La Rumba.

Thumb Gods: Nintendo is no, no to the name Wii for their new console a game system that is at the end of this long list containing The Evolution of Video Game Consoles.

Las Vegas Revealed that it was ill prepared for a massive disaster, but til then you can still get married and get comp’d in Vegas.

Wander the World, well the State of Colorado with Leafworks. He takes us to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Gothnic in Denver, Old Colorado City, Plaza del Arte Festival in Downtown Denver and Garden of the Gods.

eBusiness Applications Ltd. has launched EBA Grid v3.1. It’s a cross-browser Ajax data grid component capable of displaying and editing tabular data in a webpage.

They also have a nice screencast demoing some of the functionality, including:

• Copy & Paste to Excel
• Selection API
• Keyboard navigation & selection
• Live scrolling