AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. AJAX is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. AJAX is the logical next step in the services-oriented architecture revolution. With AJAX, user interfaces from within the browser can use web services as their data source to store and retrieve information. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is not a technology in itself, but is a term that describes a "new" approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including: HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, The Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When these technologies are combined in the AJAX model, web applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page. This makes the application faster and more responsive to user actions. AJAX is said to be quicker at Internet use. AJAX technology allows a web page to request data from a server without refreshing the whole page, making it possible to update only parts of a web page. This should
generally result in smother, faster page loading.
ASP.NET AJAX.
(Microsoft®), ASP.NET AJAX is a set of technologies to add AJAX (Asynchronous
JavaScript And XML) support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, server controls, and
more. More ASP links.
How To Use AJAX Patterns. Design patterns make development more efficient by speeding up common programming processes and eliminating the need to write redundant code across multiple projects. AJAX design patterns are emerging with the increased popularity of its use in Web application development. In this article, I'll focus on a few patterns that are specific to AJAX development.
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Adobe AIR lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash
and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
TurboGears Features: easy-to-use, database-driven, easy Ajax and designer- and programmer-friendly.
jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.
Businesses need the latest technologies to help them meet their needs, support their goals and compete in the marketplace. Layered Technologies has announced that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now available on its automated Web hosting platform to ensure that customers can choose from the broadest range of the powerful servers for deploying business-critical applications and the most robust operating systems for increased flexibility and control. Layered Tech customers can select from a full range of Windows- and Linux-based servers to best fit their business needs.
Direct RIA is a robust and comprehensive rich Internet applications engine which turns any client (web browser, mobile device) into an efficient and engaging environment. Direct RIA maximizes developer productivity by direct access of user interface, database, and web services. Direct RIA minimizes the development cost by transparent and automatic synchronization between client and server.
Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise (Enterprise RIA) can convey multiple benefits to a business, from lower cost of ownership, overall application availability and better security, to tremendous user experience. But these benefits come at a price: complexity and cost. For enterprises and ISVs looking for an efficient way of acquiring RIA-build capabilities, there is now a new breed of end-to-end RIA platforms designed to overcome the limited scope of client-side RIA platforms and the lack of deployment flexibility inherent in cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service solutions.
At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in New York, held June 22-23, 2009, Suresh Chandrasekaran, leader of sales and marketing in North America and APAC for Denodo Technologies, discussed the Enterprise Data mashup platform and how to build virtual data services.
Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of the uniPaaS application platform, now with .NET integration for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Clients and equivalent support for mobile devices.
3 dimensional web is all about interacting with the content provider about their contents. The ability ask questions and clarification while checking a product from an online retailer.
With the Direct AJAX programming model, Web applications can access data model and back-end integration directly. No more asynchronous communication between client and server, neither the security of sending the business logic to the client.
Based on nearly two years of research and hundreds of client engagements, the IBM Smart Business cloud portfolio is meant to help clients take complex business processes and turn them into simple services. To accomplish this, Smart Business brings sophisticated automation technology and self-service to specific digital tasks as diverse as software development and testing; desktop and device management; and collaboration.
The NY Times broke IBM’s embargo this morning by publishing their story on IBM’s new cloud computing initiatives. I’ve posted the full release here on CloudBzz. The diagram below gives a bit of insight into where IBM is today and where they are heading. IBM is also updating their collateral with a bit more detail. Here is a fact sheet for their Smart Business initiative:
IBM is also updating their collateral with a bit more detail. Here is [...]
"I enjoyed Kevin’s piece but struggled with how I might respond: cheerleader or pundit. Itried for a bit of both."
The challenges he had with my article, include:
Mixing tenses in some key spots seemed to imply that out of the box today, Cloud Computing can deliver on the promises Kevin is describing now. Given the audience, this can lead to unachievable expectations
The disconnect between the public, private and military sectors with an over-reliance on military analogies as a model representing an ideal state of security operations and strategy can be startling
Unrealistic portrayals of where we are with the maturity of Cloud/virtualization mobility, portability, interoperability and security capabilities
His last couple of paragraphs, however, really brings it home:
"It’s absolutely a cultural issue, but we must strive to be realistic about where we are with Cloud and security technology and capabilities as aligned. As someone who’s spent the last 15 years in IT/Security, I can say that this is NOT the “…dawning of a new day in IT security,” rather it’s still dark out and will be for quite some time. There is indeed opportunity to utilize Cloud and virtualization to react better, faster and more efficiently, but let’s not pretend we’re treating the problem when what we’re doing is making the symptoms less noticeable.
I am absolutely bullish on Cloud, but not Cloud Security as it stands, at least not until we make headway toward fundamentally fixing the foundational problems we have that allow the problems to occur in the first place."
Culpepper and Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of compensation data and human capital benchmarks. Over 1,500 organizations use Culpepper survey market data to benchmark their global total rewards programs. The company provides job descriptions for a wide range of positions and reports compensation/benefits data for those positions. Culpepper Job Descriptions is an online subscription service with comprehensive descriptions and level cutter guides for a wide range of jobs in IT, technology, and life science organizations.
“Geeks on a Role,” hosted by Visual WebGui creator Guy Peled and Eyal Albert, VWG’s developer experience manager, will provide a platform for information and knowledge sharing for the Visual WebGui community by discussing the latest company news, product announcements, technology demos and general development topics. In addition, each week Geeks on a Role will choose questions sent in from the audience or posted on the Visual WebGui forums to provide on air answers and solutions.
Gizmox released today a new version of the Visual WebGui Platform for Rich .NET AJAX applications. Visual WebGui 6.3.7 is a further stabilization to the 6.3 pre-release version which adds support for wrapping of AJAX based controls into the Visual WebGui framework as well as support for additional languages.
Adobe has broken out a free preview of BrowserLab, a hosted cloud service that will let web designers compare their sites on various browsers and operation systems to pinpoint anything squirlly.
BIRT Report Designers are easy to use visual report development tools that offer programmatic control, extensibility and a component-based model for reuse.
Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. This paper will discuss the steps involved in understanding the requirements for an automated solution. It will also introduce a solution for automating the generation and secure distribution of spreadsheet reports.
During the learning process of getting up to speed with the beta releases of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder I created a simple version of the Employee Directory application that we use inside Adobe to find information about employees.
Chart FX for Java has for many years been the leader in Data Visualization components for Java server applications. Chart FX 7 for Java Desktop now gives all the power of Chart FX to Swing application developers in both NetBeans and all Eclipse-Based IDEs.
Xandros today announced it is developing
software products based on the recently released Moblin Version 2 project
for Intel® Atom(TM) processor-based platforms. The new version of Moblin
will enable Xandros to provide customizations with advanced Internet,
media, social networking and graphics capabilities for the ASUS Eee PC. A
turnkey Xandros software solution employing new Moblin v2 technologies will
be demonstrated for the first time at the Intel booth at Computex, Taipei, Taiwan, June
2-6, 2009.
It includes an ActionScript component OfflineDataCollection that allows you to program local/remote data synchronization. Open source Clear Toolkit framework is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit/ The source code of the OfflineDataCollection is here: http://tinyurl.com/p23do5 A demo recording of the sample occasionally-connected AIR application is here: http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=394. To see the demo in person, come to my talk at AJAX World in New York City in June.
ZK have announced a new AJAX component called ZK Calendar for Java applications. It is a fully featured web-based calendar boasting a similar feature set to Google’s calendar application.
A couple of years ago Simone Chiaretta did a survey of .NET Developers usage of Ajax. I just saw that he is refreshing that survey to see what has changed in the industry. Are people still actively moving to Ajax? Are they using MVC or WebForms with their Ajax?
A well-functioning EDP is the alpha and omega for the treatment of patients in a hospital. Each investigation is recorded electronically and is available for the treating physicians at any time and place. This allows recording and evaluating patient data at the bedside to the satisfaction of the patients and the physicians. Unfortunately, in some areas of the medicine, Doctors and nurses often have to work with complicated software that doesn’t meet the needs of the users, or do not offer such interfaces to expand the software by the required functions.
Nexus Informatica develops Mobile and Wireless solutions from 1997 and provides mobility solutions specializing in retail, barcode technology, Mobile solutions and Personal Shopping Systems. WCube Logistic was created with the objective of streamlining the organization and control of all logistical activities of the warehouse through the use of radio terminals connected interactively to the system of departmental logistics. WCube Logistic solves the need of warehouse logistics and inventory management to be connected at any time by using mobile devices.
Manufacturing industries extensively use contract resources to perform 'non-core' or 'overload' tasks or services, and require business processes and systems to manage and control the activity of these providers. Paper based processes, while apparently simple and effective up-front, cannot readily provide the necessary site access control or comprehensive reporting, neither for planned activities nor for review of activities, in the event of an issue.
ZK Spreadsheet enables AJAX applications to deliver the rich functionality of Excel to browsers in pure Java. With embeddable Excel functionality in pure Java, developers can create collaborative and dynamic enterprise applications like never before.
Kaazing Corporation has announced that David Littlewood is joining the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In his new position, Littlewood will lead the growth and management of Kaazing's global sales and alliances with particular emphasis on the financial services industry. This announcement comes on the heels of the release of Kaazing Enterprise Gateway, which provides ground breaking new features such as support for full-duplex Web communication for Microsoft's Silverlight technology.
The relationship between IP addresses and web applications to most end-users is much like the metaphorical language of the Tamarians in Star Trek: The Next Generation “Darmok”. It is incomprehensible without the proper foundational concepts; to anyone who lacks the proper context. In the case of IP addresses and web applications that foundation is technological rather than the historical basis of the Tamarian’s metaphorical language.
Software technologists tend to learn by oscillating. We never arrive directly at the right solution; we just come closer to it by going back and forth. We always think (or like to think) that our current solution is correct; only to realize, some years later, that we overshot and need to take a few steps back. The evolution of the software application model is a great example of this syndrome. Every technologist knows about the three main application model phases—Mainframe, Client/Server, and Web [1.0]—and many of them think they know what the next phase will be. In fact, two models are currently being promoted. In order to better understand the current trend, it is important to first understand the three original model phases.
The main focus of ZK 3.6.1 was on bug-fixing, with over 47 bugs fixed. In addition to the host of bugs eradicated 20 new features have been added, including a debug mode for unit-testing and MVC enhancement!
Reading my previous AIR tutorials, you’ve worked with menus that are associated with tangible elements of your applications,
such as the following: Context menus that are activated on objects on the stage Context menus associated with icons in the system tray or dock bar Menus associated with windows and menus of the application itself AIR applications also allow you to create pop- up menus . These are native menus like all the other ones you’ve seen so far—the only difference is that pop- up menus aren’t natively associated with any element on the interface of the application. It’s up to the developer to
define and implement the logic and the way in which a pop- up menu can be activated
OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.
The functionality of the Telemedicine Pilot system was delivered by the Second Opinion Module - Provides all the back-end functionality for capturing, maintaining and managing Second Opinion cases. It also provides a portal with a Web-based user interface which provides access to facilities without automated medical record systems. This module also provides a comprehensive Web Services interface to enable access from external systems.
Servoy provides a Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Deployment tool. Because of its features, Servoy enables organizations to make better use of their data; improve their business processes; and get the most up-to-date and accurate information from (and into) their databases and (legacy) applications.
Adobe is at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Lost Wages this week, and its big announcement was how the company has put the pieces in place to allow it to deliver Flash content and interactivity to residential TV. “Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home will dramatically change the way we view content on televisions,” said David Wadhwani, the general manager and VP of the platform business unit at Adobe. “Consumers are looking to access their favorite Flash technology-based videos, applications, services and other rich web content across screens. We are looking forward to working with partners to create these new experiences and deliver content consistently across devices whether consumers view it on their desktop, mobile phone or television.”
With the advent of mobile technology, more and more people are using an iPhone as their on-the-go method of connecting to the World Wide Web. For those who develop Web applications, the task is to build Web applications that mimic the user interface (UI) of the iPhone and iPod touch devices. In response to the trend and demand, ComponentOne, a leading component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program, has announced a suite of Microsoft ASP.NET controls named Studio for iPhone.
JSON will be safer and "getters and setters" will be standard in ECMAScript, Fifth Edition. That's what the creator of JavaScript, Brdendan Eich, has been telling a reporter this week. JavaScript, called 'The world's most underated programming language' by JSON creator Douglad Crockford, has not been updated in any significant way since 1999.
Microsoft Wednesday sent Exchange 2010 out into public beta. It’s its first server built from the ground up, according to Microsoft, to be deployed in the cloud as an online service as well as on-site. It will be available as a cloud service from both Microsoft and third parties.
The story of software development in the last few years has been driven by the need to provide a good user experience without installation issues and update woes. For some people that has meant building "smart client" applications, as promoted by Microsoft. For others, that has meant building rich Internet applications (RIAs) using technologies such as AJAX, Microsoft Silverlight, and Adobe Flash and Flex.
Tim Bray, a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems has been interviewed by InfoQ about the future of the Web. With all my respect to Sun’s engineers, I have to disagree with some of the statements Mr. Bray made.
ZK Spreadsheet enables Ajax applications to deliver the rich functionality of ExcelR to browsers in pure Java. With embeddable Excel functionality in pure Java, developers can create collaborative and dynamic enterprise applications like never before.
Montrusco Bolton Investments is a Montreal firm with over 60 years of investment experience. MBI offers a range of equity, fixed income and alternative investment solutions and is supported by two solid institutional partners: Affiliated Managers Group and Solidarity Fund QFL. The company uses a trading desk application to send trade information to brokers and to different departments within the company by email and printouts. The Trading Desk application is used to determine the transactions needed in the portfolios that the company manages. It is an interface that creates transactions into another table in the database for another department and sends emails to the brokers with the transactions to process in attachment (a pdf file that is created with Crystal Reports).
“There is no other software platform on the market today that can give traditional desktop application developers the ability to transition that knowledge and experience directly to a web development environment – providing an unprecedented development experience.” Brian Butterfield
Craegmoor has a small IT team dedicated to supporting its IT infrastructure, so producing robust and secure web based applications was believed to be a challenge. The team considered bringing in external consultants, but this idea was rejected because it was not viewed as a cost effective measure and one that would carry much greater associated risks than an in house approach.
In Part 1 of this article, I introduced rich client development, available architectures for developing rich client applications based on the Swing toolkit, and technologies that could be used to make development more productive. In this second part, I’ll compare the most popular IDEs and evaluate them with an eye to Swing development for rich client applications.
This is a stabilization of 6.3 and another step towards a release version. The new version brings a significant enhancement in cross-browser support with full compatibility for Netscape and added support for popular browser like Chrome, Safari and Opera.
"The economy might be cooling down, but the RIA market is definitely heating up," declared Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz recently in his widely-read industry blog. Schwartz was writing as Sun shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime - a download rate that makes it the fastest growing RIA platform on the market and demonstrating the fastest adoption of any product Sun has ever shipped.
Ariba has announced the open source release of AribaWeb, the company’s framework for development of RIAs. AribaWeb enables the creation of rich, highly interactive business applications. Among the key attributes that set AribaWeb apart: Auto AJAX: “Today’s users demand a highly interactive, rich user experience from their web applications. And to date, this challenge has been met primarily through AJAX,” said Craig Federighi, User Interface Technology Evangelist at Ariba. “But implementing AJAX typically involves the extensive (and expensive) hand-coding of brittle client-side JavaScript code. With its Auto AJAX technology, AribaWeb completely changes the game and dramatically alters the cost equation - AJAX user interfaces are produced automatically, without requiring the application developer to perform any client-side scripting.”
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, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with Xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.
Atlas is a very powerful Ajax framework generally associated with ASP.NET
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.
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.
Atlas is a very powerful Ajax framework generally associated with ASP.NET
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.
Brian Arnold created a fun sample drum machine simulator using HTML5 <audio>.
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
function playBeat() {
if (isPlaying) {
var nextBeat = 60000 / curTempo / 4;
// Turn off all lights on the tracker's row
[...]
Alex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser.
It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality.
I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :)
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts.
John told us:
Canvas-rendering corrects GChart's most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice).
Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]
Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings.
Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way.... as he talked about
en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]
As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]
Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them:
Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr
Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]
A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day.
First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests.... 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5.
All of the tests are released under New BSD.
Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]
It is great to feel the good vibes at Mozilla HQ today as we launch Firefox 3.5! It is always an interesting ride to see a browser develop, and realize how complex and large the work is.
Congrats to the browser developers out there who are working hard to make the Web better. With final [...]
Kyle Simpson has developed LABjs, a library that lets you define your JavaScript file dependencies, and then loads them as efficiently as possible.
Kyle told us:
This project is a simple little tool (1.6k compressed!) for being able to load javascript files dynamically. It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the [...]
Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here's one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA.
It's only been two weeks since we announced open registration for The Ajax Experience with [...]
Developers tend to tease MySpace for its look, but the insiders are incredibly impressed by some of the engineering behind the scenes (e.g. their internal monitoring tools are said to be second to none).
They have surprised us again with their new tool MSFast which is "a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code [...]
Zach Johnson is at it again, this time giving us a fun Friday treat with CSS text shadow, all via:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
document.getElementById('text-shadow-box').onmousemove = function(e) {
var xm = e.clientX - 300;
var ym = e.clientY - 175;
var d = Math.sqrt(xm*xm + ym*ym);
text.style.textShadow = -xm + 'px ' + -ym + [...]
Thomas Fuchs has been working in the open on scripty2 for a bit, and now the website has launched.
It even comes with nice documentation and fun demos:
What's new in scripty2? It is a complete rewrite, and comes packaged in three parts:
scripty2 core contains the main namespace and an area for extensions to be added. It [...]
Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3:
We’ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 — YUI, Node, and Event — to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and we’ve refined our module/submodule structure. In [...]
We have been sandboxing JavaScript in iframes for a long time. The Web Worker API has the nice property that it doesn't have access to objects like document and the like, and just runs code that you can pass over to it.
With this, Elijah Grey has created an experimental jsandbox API that gives you an [...]
Rana Sobhany of Medialets has posted on Sun Spider benchmarks of the iPhone 3GS as well as other devices which shows off the performance angle of 3GS:
The WebKit Open Source Project provides a JavaScript test Suite dubbed SunSpider. According to the description on the SunSpider home page, “this benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, [...]
The religion behind a simple $ has been fierce in the Web world. MooTools has decided to make the Dollar Safe Mode which is similar to cousins such as jQuery.noConflict (in MooTools case it just looks for the $ function). Now you can just use document.id if you want to play in the wild, or [...]
ProtoFish is an advanced hover menu based on Prototype, written by Peter Slagter. You can easily add a delay to your menu (on mouseout) and choose your own hover class. All ProtoFish menu's will respond to users who use the TAB-key to navigate through your page.
It is trivial to use. Once you load up [...]
There have been many tools to help make image spriting easier, by packaging up your images into one large image and splitting it up again via CSS.
Steve Souders just showed off a new little tool he created, Sprite Me at the Velocity conference that kicked off today. He has made it easier to work with [...]
Kyle Weems, the CSS Squirrel and author of the occasional and bizarre comic of the same name, targets his latest rendering at Ian Hickson:
Click-through to see the full comic. The related blog entry fleshes out the basic complaint some more:
Why is it that the person who is the center of this process is allowed to [...]
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.
W3CThe 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.
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