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Opinion: Using usernamecheck as an exploration tool

30 Sep 2008 08:42:26 PDT

Written by TDavid
Happy exploring to you! A week or so ago the AJAX-powered service usernamecheck.com was all the rage in the various tech rags for being able to check a bunch of different websites (all shown below) to see if a username was already taken. I held off blogging it at that time because the service wa...

Original story at Things That ... Make You Go Hmm .

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Opinion: Using usernamecheck as an exploration tool

30 Sep 2008 08:42:26 PDT

Original story at Things That ... Make You Go Hmm » blogs and podcasting .

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Book Review: ASP.NET Ajax In Action

04 Aug 2008 12:43:00 PDT

Written by Jose Rolando Guay Paz
It really helped me get some true insights for working with Ajax. Thanks to it I've written my first javascripts to call some methods and webservices using http. And has given me a clear idea of how to work with JSON. Anyway, if you get serious about Ajax, get this book, period.

Original story at ASP.NET Weblogs .

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Opinion: Using client templates, part 1

30 Jul 2008 23:39:00 PDT

Written by Bertrand Le Roy
Last week, we shipped the first preview for the Ajax work we're doing in ASP.NET 4.0 under the simple form of a simple script file (release and debug versions). This should show how much emphasis this release puts on the client-side. As a matter of facts, I'll use a plain HTML file here instead of...

Original story at ASP.NET Weblogs .

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Opinion: Remember The Milk : One of my fav Ajax applications

23 Jun 2008 11:33:12 PDT

Written by Sanjiv Jivan
I was just reading the Ajaxian conference schedule that is being held in Boston (Sept 29th, 2008) and was pleasantly surprised to see the session Building a Highly Scalable Ajax Application: Lessons from Remember The Milk (RTM) by Omar Kilani.

Original story at jroller.com .

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Book Review: Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional

16 Jun 2008 17:51:00 PDT

Written by edhild
This book has a bit of everything leaving everyone from new .NET web developers to experienced ones coming away with a good experience. This book is almost like having 2 books in one. The first half is an introduction to ASP.NET. It covers the foundation, basics,etc and includes examples of so...

Original story at MSDN Blogs .

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Ajax news and blogs - October 11, 2008

11 Oct 2008 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Ajax news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Review: Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX -- from Code Scene
• Opinion: JavaScript creator ponders past, future -- from InfoWorld RSS Feed
• Opinion: GWT in Practice -- by Robert Cooper from Manning Publications
• Opinion: GWT in Practice -- by Robert Cooper from Manning Publications
• Opinion: OpenAjax Call-to-Action to Ajax Developers for Browser Wishlist -- by MatHertel from Aspects of AJAX
• Book review: Advanced Ajax by Lauriat (Part 2 of 2) -- by Ajaxian from fullasagoog.com full roast blend
• Opinion: The love for RIA? -- by yobo from ajax « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Dugg: Ajax homepages market review | ZDnet.com -- by Jos Schuurmans from www.josschuurmans.com
• Opinion: Learning AJAX and Javascript -- from Design Float / Upcoming Entries
• Product review: Inside open source AJAX toolkits -- by Tom Sullivan from InfoWorld Daily | Tom Sullivan

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Opinion: UPDATED WIKI: PatchUtility

29 May 2008 12:31:45 PDT

Written by kirtid
Do you want to be able to contribute fixes to the AJAX Control Toolkit, but you aren’t a contributor? The Patch Utility is an easy way to create fixes that can be submitted to the AJAX Control Toolkit team for evaluation and possible inclusion into the AJAX Control Toolkit.

Original story at codeplex.com .

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Opinion: Microsoft Developer Webcasts This Week: Visual Studio 2008, 24-hrs of SQL 2008, SAP, WPF, WCF, AJAX, Silverlight

10 Mar 2008 11:20:00 PDT

Written by georgeop
In this session, we cover the new design and development features in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 development system for creating rich Web applications. Topics include the new cascading style sheets (CSS) and HTML design tools, the much improved Javascript Intellisense and debug...

Original story at MSDN Blogs .

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Opinion: Mix08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

06 Mar 2008 09:39:00 PST

Written by BradA
The results! Now, that is nice, but there are a ton of results here.. we really need a nice way to page through them. I use the new DataPager control in ASP.NET 3.5.. Notice it can have filed that are simple Next\Prev or numeric or you can even build your own! Here is the complete code: And notice i...

Original story at MSDN Blogs .

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"Seam in Action" Book Review

28 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST

Written by globalgateway
Seam is a powerful open source development platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. Seam integrates technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), JavaServer Faces (JSF), Java Persistence (JPA), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB 3.0) and Business Process Ma...

Original story at globalgateway (WordPress) .

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Opinion: Adobe Engage 2008 To Launch Flex 3.0 and AIR

23 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST

Written by Simeon Simeonov
There seems to be a rule that really big software companies get things right by version 3.0. That has been the case for years with Microsoft and now Adobe may be large-enough to join the list. Flex 1.0 shipped late and left a lot to be desired, which made Flex 1.5 more or less a requirement. Flex 2.0 was...

Original story at simeons (WordPress) .

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Opinion: Finding your balance between AJAX and Silverlight

24 Jan 2008 06:30:33 PST

Written by scbarnes
Internet Explorer had memory issues (garbage collection) and I cursed its existence – it let me down!. Yet little did I know that it was actually my fault, as I wasn’t disposing of my variables after use and I’d cache way too many getElementById() results inside JavaScript.

Original story at MSDN Blogs .

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Opinion: AJAX Latency problems: myth or reality?

05 Jan 2008 05:47:33 PST

Written by Jep Castelein
I've read many articles on AJAX and network latency in the last year, but every article seems to claim to a different thing: one talks about latency as a problem specific to AJAX, while others claim that especially AJAX applications can overcome network latency problems. While yet others...

Original story at AJAX Rich User Interfaces .

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Opinion: Mibbit: Ajax-based IRC Client

04 Jan 2008 03:46:20 PST

Written by Rey Bango
I'm always surprised but what people are building using JavaScript & Ajax. It's spurred so much creativity over the last two years and it doesn't appear to be stopping soon. Most recently, I discovered Mibbit, a JS/Ajax-based IRC client, and had the opportunity to interview the devel...

Original story at Ajax .

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Opinion: Aspects of OpenAjax

20 Dec 2007 15:40:17 PST

Written by MatHertel
The ajax, the proxies and the jcl prefix will be used by the Aspects of Ajax framework because these are the names of the global variables I use (beside minor important stuff). I hope and pray that nobody else will use this prefix in any other AJAX framework. (I am the first - I won! :-)

Original story at Aspects of AJAX .

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Opinion: My "Ajax Experience"

25 Oct 2007 20:31:32 PDT

Written by Sanjiv Jivan
JQuery : JQuery is really slick. Its lightweight, powerful and has a very intuitive API. Unlike Dojo or Ext, JQuery is a library and not a framework and typically targets different use cases. Dojo or Ext are probably not the best choices if you want to sprinkle some Ajax magic on some of your int...

Original story at jroller.com .

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Opinion: UPDATED WIKI: ContributingToTheToolkit

11 Oct 2007 13:29:29 PDT

Written by kirtid
Contributing to the Toolkit The Toolkit is a shared source project that is released under the Microsoft Permissive License. It is a framework built on top of ASP.NET AJAX and has a set of over 35 controls. Many of those controls have been written by members of the ASP.NET AJAX community. The Tool...

Original story at codeplex.com .

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Opinion: 10 Ajax Start Pages to Consider

12 Sep 2007 20:38:29 PDT

Written by Aidan Henry
iGoogle is probably the most simple of all the offerings. It is Google's first big kick at AJAX start pages. The offering is extremely basic and lacks any clutter. See a full review here: iGoogle: The Epitome of Google Personalization MyYahoo

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Bloglines Launches Beta Re-design and Start Page

26 Aug 2007 23:00:00 PDT

Written by Richard MacManus
The new Bloglines beta has a lot of Ajax functionality, allowing you to drag and drop feeds, get pop-over previews, and more. Overall it provides a much slicker user interface than the old Bloglines. 3) 3-Pane view - using the email UI favored by many desktop RSS Readers and also My Yahoo.

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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World’s First Review of Streamy - The AJAX-based Digg Rival

14 Jul 2007 21:44:05 PDT

Written by Pete Cashmore
gt;>Click Here to Visit the Streamy Screenshot Gallery>Click Here to Visit the Streamy Screenshot Gallery<

Original story at Mashable! .

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Bulletproof Ajax (Book review)

30 May 2007 22:29:15 PDT

Written by Roger Johansson
In Bulletproof Ajax, Jeremy Keith (Adactio, DOM Scripting) explains how to use Ajax the right way. He does so by relentlessly reminding the reader that accessibility needs to be considered throughout development, especially once you start adding JavaScript.

Original story at 456 Berea Street .

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Opinion: Zimbra Desktop Launched - Growing Trend of Offline Access to Web Apps

25 Mar 2007 21:59:48 PDT

Written by Richard MacManus
As noted in the press release, Zimbra Desktop will allow users to access their email, calendar, contacts, and documents while on the road, or in places without a network connection, through Zimbra's familiar Ajax-based Web interface. When users come back online, all the changes that we...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Wither Away Ajax?

06 Mar 2007 08:28:40 PST

Written by Shelley
There is an Eclipse plugin for JavaScript development (actually, more than one), and that's only one of many JS development tools. I tend to use text editors and Firebug because I've found both to be sufficient for my needs. All you have to do is search on "edit JavaScript" to pull up a host of f...

Original story at Burningbird .

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Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax (Book review)

23 Feb 2007 07:48:03 PST

Written by Roger Johansson
I'll say it right from the start: this book is great. There are several other books that teach modern JavaScript, but Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is really focused on explaining unobtrusive and accessible scripting techniques, which I think is excellent. This book i...

Original story at 456 Berea Street .

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Opinion: Some recent technical books: Concurrency, Messaging, Ajax, Web design

30 Jun 2006 00:00:00 PDT

Written by Chris Winters
I also looked at the Ajax book with Dion as one of the co-authors. I like Dion even though I've never met him; unlike many Java people he doesn't think 'Perl' is a dirty word and he's very pragmatic about technology and applications. But it was more of a manual; I already know half the stuff in the...

Original story at cwinters.com .

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