AJAX. Asynchronous Javascript And XML

TurboGears Features: easy-to-use, database-driven, easy Ajax and designer- and programmer-friendly.

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML, HTML 5 document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

Xajax Project Introducing Xajax Ajax-enable your PHP application with a simple toolkit that gets the job done fast. Runs on any PHP 4.3.x/PHP 5.x and Apache/IIS platform. xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Applications developed with Xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit helps you bring your web sites to life! The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a collection of samples and components that makes it easier then ever to build and consume rich client-side ASP.NET AJAX controls and extenders. The toolkit provides both ready to go samples and a powerful SDK to simplify the creation and re-use of your own custom controls and extenders. More ASP, Active Server Page links

AJAX Tutorial AJAX is not a new language, but just a new way to use existing standards. With AJAX you can create better, faster, and more user friendly web applications. AJAX is based on JavaScript and HTTP requests.

Coding in Pardice AJAX Tutorials. This page has various tutorials, articles, and blog posts I've created concerning AJAX and AJAX techniques. Real World AJAX. Blog Tutorials & Projects.

Go Beyond HTML Forms With AJAX implementing features such as auto-saving, just-in-time validation, submission throttling and popup forms.

HTML5 Offline Applications: "Donut Hole" Caching. This tutorial demonstrates how to implement an offline page that makes an AJAX call when connected to the web in order to display live data to the user. When offline, the page simply renders default data in the page. More HTML 5 Information

WPF/E is the Microsoft solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for the Web and beyond. Utilizing a subset of XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language)-based Windows Presentation Foundation technology, WPF/E will enable the creation of content and applications that run within multiple browsers and operating systems (Windows and Macintosh) using Web standards for programmability. Consistent with Web architecture, the XAML markup is programmable using JavaScript and works well with ASP.NET AJAX. Broadly available for customers in the first half of 2007, WPF/E experiences will require a lightweight browser plug-in made freely available by Microsoft.

WPF/E (codename) Software Development Kit (SDK) Community Technology Preview (Dec 2006)

TurboGears Features: easy-to-use, database-driven, easy Ajax and designer- and programmer-friendly.

FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

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Winding road of open-source webOS: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:21:14 +0000 - HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript Read the rest...
Shim uses node.js to test sites on multiple browsers: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:01:13 +0000 - Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers. A laptop intercepts all wifi traffic – this is redirected to a custom node.js server – which inserts a javascript, or “shim,” at the head of each web page that is visited. Read the rest...
HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:15:51 +0000 - Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine. Described by Evans is ”a new PHP execution engine based on the HipHop language runtime that we call the HipHop Virtual Machine (hhvm).” He sees it as replacement for the HipHop PHP Read the rest...
Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:04:13 +0000 - Earlier this week, Adobe VP and General Manager Danny Winokur disclosed that the company has concluded that HTML5 is ”the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” The company said it would stop building Flash to run on mobile browsers. In a blog post on the new focus of Read the rest...
Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:38:07 +0000 - Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, hooks into on-chip vector extensions to improve performance of Web applications. Details of Intel’s attempt to get on the JavaScript juggernaut emerged last month at its developer event. The prototype JavaScript extension offered by Intel is intended to allow JavaScript apps to take advantage of modern parallel Read the rest...
Adobe buys Nitobi: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:52:57 +0000 - As it kicked off its yearly developer event, Adobe announced that it had acquired Nitobi Software, maker of PhoneGap open source software for cross-platform mobile application building with HTML5 and JavaScript. In a blog, Nitobi CEO Andre Charland pledged to pursue donation of the PhoneGap code to the Apache Software Foundation ”to ensure open stewardship Read the rest...
A simple random bit on var selector: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:26:21 +0000 - Isobar’s Rob Larsen suggests that there is often a need to build CSS selectors dynamically when building applications. ”This is typically some existing pattern paired with a loop counter or something pulled from a data attribute,” he writes on his blog. His choice is to create a variable called ”selector” and ”to craft the selector Read the rest...
The power of intent tag discussed: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:09:59 +0000 - Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan has detailed his recent work on a lightweight sharing facility using a very simple intent share protocol. Web Intents began life in 2010. Now, Kinlan and company are looking for feedback. Basically, his intent tag is intended to allow users to more easily mix and match favorite plug-in capabilities, freeing Read the rest...
Code injection, error throwing: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:01:12 +0000 - In a blog, Opera Software Developer Relations team member Tiffany B. Brown looks at code injection, error throwing and handling and mobile debugging. She notes Opera Dragonfly and its remote debug features provide a way to debug mobile sites from their desktop. Brown mentions WebKit’s recently added remote debugging capabilities, folded into Google Chrome developer Read the rest...
The State – Sort of – of HTML5 Audio: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:17:34 +0000 - The State – Sort of – of HTML5 Audio Scott Schiller discusses the high level of hype around HTML5 and CSS3. The two specs render ”many years of feature hacks redundant by replacing them with native features,” he writes in an insightful blog. Blogging, he says: CSS3’s border-radius, box-shadow, text-shadow and gradients, and HTML5’s <canvas>, Read the rest...
Maqetta to the Dojo Foundation: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:14:14 +0000 - IBM recently announced the open source contribution of Maqetta to the Dojo Foundation. Maqetta provides WYSIWYG authoring of HTML5 user interfaces using drag/drop assembly, and supports both desktop and mobile user interfaces. Maqetta is said to target user experience designers working in teams focused on HTML5 application development. The Maqetta application runs in the browser. Read the rest...
Best Practices for test revisited: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:08:30 +0000 - With Google and their apps like Search, Docs or GMail only a very small time is actually spent in the initial page load, writes Andreas Grabner in a recent blog post. Of course, much time is spent in JavaScript, XHR Calls and DOM Manipulations triggered by user actions. Grabner writes: It is very important to Read the rest...
Searching for public Orion beta?: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:09:46 +0000 - The Eclipse Foundation now offers sign-up access to a beta version of the OrionHub service, a hosted implementation of Orion tools. Orion is an Eclipse initiative to define a browser-based platform for building and integrating web development tools. Key features of Orion include: a fast editor for JavaScript, HTML and CSS development; a client-side plugin Read the rest...
jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:13:20 +0000 - jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 increases browser support to include Firefox Mobile, Opera Mobile / Mini. Improvements reported on support for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and Palm WebOS. Moreover, the Ajax navigation system has been … deeply re-factored to improve performance and handle more edge cases. This includes event handling for click, submit, and hashchange, all Read the rest...
Jdrop – JSON in the cloud: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:21:40 +0000 - Performance Wonk Steve Souders has announced Jdrop – described as a JSON repository in the cloud. It builds on his work with Mobile Perf javaScript meta-bookmarklets that can work as profilers for mobile devices. Bookmarklets gather data and display data. The data can be saved to Jdrop. For analysis. Souders blogs: It was pretty simple Read the rest...
Using HTML5 sensibly and multimedia on the web: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:29:45 +0000 - It is high time developers take back HTML5 from the marketing people, says Chrisian Heilmann. “HTML5 is the evolution of our web technologies, not another flashy add-on to already badly used outdated practices,” he writes in a blog posting that includes illuminating slides. http://www.wait-till-i.com/2011/02/09/using-html5-sensibly-and-multimedia-on-the-web-speaking-at-the-london-ajax-meetup/
Prism work makes way for Chromeless effort: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:50:19 +0000 - Mozilla Labs announced it will no longer maintain the Prism project. Attention instead will focus on the more general Chromeless project, which also is a ”task-focused layer” running on top of Mozilla’s XULRunner runtime environment. In a blog entitled “Prism is now Chromeless,” Lloyd Hilaiel wrote: “The final change we’re announcing today takes the form Read the rest...
HTML5 Gets a New Logo: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:07:06 +0000 - That’s all we needed, really, a new logo. Does anyone else feel the need to have this stitched onto a leotard with a cape? ;-)
Smart GWT 2.4 Released: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:12:38 +0000 - Smart GWT 2.4 has been released and, as expected, they are jumping on the HTML5 and iOS/Touch bandwagon. The fact that the touch support doesn’t require code changes for existing apps is most welcome. Also, the mention of the upcoming Smart GWT Mobile with “pixel perfect iOS look and feel” sounds intriguing. Many have tried, Read the rest...
People of HTML5 – Bruce Lawson: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:44:29 +0000 - The Mozilla folks including Mozilla Evangelist Chris Heilmann thought it a good idea to introduce some “People of HTML5,” starting with Bruce Lawson of Opera, co-author of “Introducing HTML5″ and one of the curators of HTML5 Doctor. Among the most vivid new technologies of the moment Lawson cites: …DAP (“Device APIs and Policy Working Group”). This Read the rest...

Ajax Endangers Pageviews As A Metric. Hits eventually yielded to page-views when it came to counting web traffic, but the growing usage of Ajax technologies that refresh content without triggering a new page-view could bury that metric.

LAMP is an acronym for a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites: Linux, the operating system; Apache, the web server; MySQL, the database management system (or database server); Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages.

Yahoo! Maps AJAX API - Getting Started Guide. Learn the fundamentals of the Yahoo! Maps AJAX API and get started creating your own maps. Yahoo Developer Network Yahoo! Answers API: Now With Filtering and Sorting!

IP Location Lookup This is not an SEO tool, but is very useful in determining the geographic location of an IP address, Check and IP address e.g. 203.113.20.70, (hit Enter after entering your IP address on the page), using a bit of AJAX and Maps.

W3C The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF).

AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSL-T uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSL-T.

Web Services. UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). WSDL (Web Services Description Language). SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).