10 Words to Avoid in Your Writing As a writer, especially for white papers, it is important to avoid the overused jargon (or gobbledygook as my friend David Meerman Scott calls it). with humanwriting
3D Canvas in Opera Tim Johansson is talking about Opera's support for a 3d Canvas which differs from Mozilla's in that it doesn't map directly to OpenGL, which they did because: * It makes it easier to implement on non-OpenGL platforms (such as D3D) * We wanted with ajaxtutorials
A guide to writing a good CV Curriculum Vitae (CV) is a summary of our academic, professional work and other extraordinary skills and talents. It is a self-marketing tool. One should be highly dedicated while preparing it so as to ensure that he/she gets the best chance of grasping the job which they wish. with c.vcreatwrite
A self-management checklist Everybody faces challenges in managing certain aspects of their lives. Someone who loves to go trail riding on a bicycle will have no problems motivating themselves to exercise. However, putting aside time to sit and read might be problematic. On the other hand, the reader might have problems putting down the book and getting active. with humanmanagement
Ajax : Flash Killer After a two week hiatus we’re back! And we’re really lucky that JavaScript superstar and local legend Jeremy Keith has agreed to give a presentation at our next meeting with designflashgraphicsweb
Ajax : Flash Killer? His session, provocatively called “Ajax : Flash Killer?” was a massive hit at Flash on the Beach last year. Jeremy is part of Brighton web guru company ClearLeft who organise the dConstruct conference here in Brighton in November. with ajaxprogramming
Ajax for classic ASP Are you writing classic ASP pages and want to join in the Ajax revolution too? Really? Well, Ajaxed is for you. The framework is simialr to xajax for PHP, in that it allows you to tie in to a named function on th eserver side. with .netajax
AJAX Performance Analysis As more code is moved client-side and the network model changes, the community is responding by building tools to address the unique performance challenges of AJAX. with ajaxarticle
AJAX, Flash, Silverlight, or JavaFX... Some of the more notable visual effects and desktop-like interactions include Prototype-esque fades, Dojo style fisheyes, the near ubiquitous drag-and-drop, and, of course, who can live without the entertainment provided by the assortment of animated loading icons that now distract us while AJAX does its asynchronous "thing." with ajaxjavascript
An Introduction to using AJAX with Rails The Rails framework comes bundled with the Prototype and Scriptaculous Javascript libraries. In this entry I'll introduce how to use those libraries in a Rails application. with ajaxjavaprogramming
An Introduction to using AJAX with Rails:Take 2 . In my first take on introducing AJAX with Rails, when a new comment is posted to an entry, the entire set of existing comments is replaced with a new set containing the new comment. Although the request is asynchronous, it's still inefficient, especially if the list of comments grows large. with ajaxjavaprogramming
beta.ifilm IFILM is an online video network, serving user-uploaded and professional content to over ten million viewers monthly. IFILM's extensive library includes movie clips, music videos, short films, TV clips, video game trailers, action sports and its popular 'viral videos' collection. with video
Central JavaScript Library URLs Jon Davis has created CacheFile, a place to store versions of common libraries such as Dojo, jQuery, Ext, Prototype and more. Dojo has a nice CDN already thanks to AOL, and YUI thanks to Yahoo! The other libraries don't have the same, so this could be the solution: with ajaxjavascriptprogramming
ColdFusion 8 Grid Magic Scott Bennett put up two nice postings which demonstrate how to extend ColdFusion 8's built-in Grid control. with ajaxtutorials
Create flickr-like Editing Fields Using AJAX & CSS On one of my web projects I’ve been working on, we needed to allow the user to edit some information on their profile page. I could have written an HTML form page and then written the php database updater, but why use such outdated interfaces? with cssdesignstylesheetwebby 3 users
Cross Domain XHR W3C proposal The W3C has a new proposal titled Enabling Read Access for Web Resources which defines access control primitives to be used for cross domain XHR. with ajaxtutorials