Kevin Survance, CTO of MapQuest, gave a keynote speech at the last Ajax Experience show. Kevin came to the company and basically transformed the entire team to create the new MapQuest beta. MapQuest uses Ajax on a massive scale and also provides commercial Ajax APIs. In this keynote, Kevin shares lessons learned from recent MapQuest development […]
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Ah the end of the year, the time to write top ten lists and predictions. I am not going to go this here. We do that enough in our State of Ajax talks. What I will do though, is the digital version of something I dislike. As an experiment, I used a “highlighter” on Matt Webb’s […]
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Alex Graveley has built Er.js, a library that “piggybacks on Neil Mix’s Thread.js which fakes threading in JavaScript 1.7 using coroutines and nested generator continuations. The goal is to replicate Erlang’s concurrent lockless process model and message-passing APIs in JavaScript.” Alex also added initial concurrent Ajax support:XmlHttpRequest, AJAX and JSON integrate nicely with the process […]
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I got to interview Ben and Stephan, the creators of a new Flex/AIR application that was shown off at JavaPolis in Belgium. The application gives you access to the library of talks that Parleys has available, and it includes features such as: Being able to take video offline to watch later Comments in the stream itself Rating system Much more. In […]
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Reposted from my blog. I had the pleasure of finally meeting Didier Girard. I seem to run across Didier’s work every week or so, but for some reason we haven’t had a chance to meet face to face, until JavaPolis. Didier sat down with me to talk about GWT, Gears, Java, and JavaScript, and I gave my […]
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The nice folks over at Dynamic Drive have created a new jQuery plugin that lets you turn ordinary pieces of HTML content on your page into an interactive, “glide in” slideshow, with severalconfigurable options: This script lets you painlessly showcase new or featured contents on your page, by turning ordinary pieces of HTML content into an […]
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Facebook released FBJS as a way to do more than just the simple Mock Ajax that you could do before hand. It didn’t go as far as Caja (hopefully Facebook will work together on it), which seems to be the natural step wrt sandboxing code. Today, they announced improved support for Ajax via a new feature, […]
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Ajatus is a new distributed CRM that “runs as a local Ajax web application on your own computer. It uses the CouchDb object database for data storage and enjoys a wide range of plug-in and replication possibilities.” The Ajax side of the house uses jQuery for fun and profit. It is a lot of fun to see […]
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Arena Albionu has written about Django and Comet using the Orbited Python event driven comet server. The article walks through the hello world of Comet… a chat server. The JavaScript looks like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function processGetPost() { var myajax=ajaxpack.ajaxobj var myfiletype=ajaxpack.filetype if (myajax.readyState == […]
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