http://www.onajax.net Ajax Tutorials, articles, framework reviews and resources Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:59:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A great way to put Ajax feeds on your website without even needing to write any code. Google has created a tool that will write the code for you. You can make the feeds appear vertical, horizontal, or vertical stacked. The only issue that I have found is that it ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-frameworks/google-ajax-feed-api.html The election is upon us, so here is a little Ajax poller to help you with your polling needs. To install the script is very easy. Here are 3 steps to install it. Open the dbConnect.php and put your database name, username, and password in it. (You may have to create ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-resources/an-ajax-poller-to-celebrate-the-election.html 1. Ajax is not an acronym. I have seen some people spell Ajax out as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or Active JavaScript and XML. This is not true. XML is not required to create an Ajax application. 2. If you are running your own server then this will be important. Plan ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-resources/a-few-things-you-should-know-about-ajax.html Google has released an online course for the study in current computing technologies and paradigm called the Google Code University. It has examples and tutorials for the study of many different languages, including Ajax. The course is free and appears to be very robust. http://www.onajax.net/ajax-resources/a-great-way-to-learn.html The Ajax Bible is like many of the other Bible books. They start out fairly simple but ramp up into more complex concepts fairly quickly. If you are reading the book as a beginner in Ajax, you may have some difficulty understanding some of the concepts in the book, but ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-book-review/book-review-ajax-bible.html Debugging ajax has will always be difficult because of its mixture of JavaScript and other languages, but there are a few ways to make your debugging go a lot smoother and less stressful. Firebug My personal favorite is an add-on for firefox, it is called firebug. Best of all, it is ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-resources/ajax-debugging.html The Ajax framework has introduced a novel way to look at the basics of a web application and has been touted by the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Amazon.com, but is it really worth investing the time to learn more about it? By the fact that you are reading ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-resources/ajax-fundementals-a-revolutionary-new-way-to-look-at-the-web.html Recently I had compiled a listing of AJAX frameworks AJAX framework for JAVA Google Web Toolkit: Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-resources/ajax_frameworks_collection_1.html Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-book-review/ajax_in_action_review.html AjaxTags is a set of JSP tags designed to make it easy to add AJAX to Java JSP sites. Each tag implements a specific widget. These tags include support for an auto-complete text box, pop-up balloons, multistep select boxes, tabbed panels, and area displays. Tags are also offered for making ... http://www.onajax.net/ajax-tutorials/add_ajax_to_jsp_with_ajaxtags.html