Friday, April 29th, 2005
Category: Ajax, Java
, JavaScript
Matt Raible has written up his experience using DWR with Spring and Hibernate. Matt also kinda put up a movie showing the Ajax features at work. Very nice and clean. A good view of DWR, and nice Ajax techniques (e.g. changing from view to edit mode).
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
SmartClient is another Ajaxian piece of software that is: an open DHTML/AJAX client engine rich user interface components & services client-server databinding systems Take it for a Test drive to see what you think. Some interesting examples there.
Category: JavaScript
Found an interesting JavaScript Shell: A command-line interface for JavaScript and DOM. Features You can enter statements and expressions at the same prompt. The result of each non-void statement or expression is shown. User-defined variables. b = document.body User-defined functions. function f() { return 5; } JavaScript error messages are shown in red. Previous statements Read the rest…
Friday, April 22nd, 2005
Category: Ajax, Java
, XmlHttpRequest
Atlassian has added a few new features to their new versions of Confluence, a quality Wiki. One item to show is their component which lists all pages in a nice tree. The Ajax approach now means that ALL of the data doesn’t have to get loaded at once (which could grow to be very large). Read the rest…
Thursday, April 14th, 2005
Category: JavaScript
A lot of people ask about drag and drop, and here is a nice set of examples: Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS. Direct manipulation, particularly drag and drop, is under utilized in desktop applications and is almost non-existant in web applications. The following examples demonstrate that direct manipulation is possible in modern browsers. Each Read the rest…
Monday, April 11th, 2005
Category: JavaScript
GreaseMonkey is a very popular plugin for Mozilla, and now Todd has released a very early version of GreaseMonkIE. Although some may poo-poo IE, we can’t forget its market-share, and from what I hear IE 7 is going to be pretty darn cool. So, hopefully the monkIE will catch up to the monkey, and user Read the rest…
Category: .NET
Michael Schwarz has released a .NET Ajax wrapper DLL. The DLL itself is available for download, but the source code is not currently available. You can take a peak at an example using C#, or VB. Of course, ASP.NET has a bunch of Ajax support, which is enhanced in Whidbey. A lot of the components Read the rest…
A new release of Tacos has been produced. Tacos contains Ajaxian components for the Java Web Framework Tapestry. Typical Tree components exist, but what is more exciting is the fact that Partial components have been added. Take a look at the demo to see more. As Matt Raible says: Even better, these components work fine Read the rest…
Monday, April 4th, 2005
Category: Component, JavaScript
, Library
, Toolkit
ActiveWidgets has released an updated Grid component: ActiveWidgets Grid 1.0. The grid component is very clean and slick, and is only one of the many components in their UI toolkit. ActiveWidgets products are available for both open source and commercial software development. Here are the simple guidelines for choosing the right licensing option: Use the Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript
TrimPath has a new TrimQuery release which groks SQL: With some inspiration from the JavaScript DB project, I’ve finally added a SQL parsing frontend to TrimQuery, release 1.0.28. That is, the TrimQuery engine now supports SQL instead of just the TrimQuery Language (TQL). You can take a look at the new demo page for a Read the rest…
Friday, April 1st, 2005
Category: Java
Hani viciously biles you, and you publicly thank him for it, calling it “an honor” You go to TheServerSide Java Symposium even though you talk about how much you hate TheServerSide.com. You then try to hide in sessions as you blog that you only go because you like Vegas You feel the need to tell Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
