Just ran into this on another site. Really cool way to build your own “custom” ajax loading image. Gives you something nice to do with that div while your content is fetching. You can choose from over 30 image animated gif styles, and customize the background color/transparency, as well as set the primary foreground color.
I love generators like this. This is simple to use, and saves you the time of creating your own gif.
I ran into this great article over on Digg .
This is one of the best design tutorials I have seen that really covers building a true Ajax web app,and how to implement it. The example uses php and and the Dojo library, so those are obvious pre-reqs. I think this would be helpful for any newbie ajax developer trying to get their feet wet, while at the same time enforcing good coding practices. This particular tutorial starts out with a basic site design, but promises future modules such as a user forum . Check it out at http://snyke.net/blog/2006/02/05/ajax-design-patterns/
Yahoo has done something nice for web world ! Surprised? I know some people don’t think they are very nice, since they will give your private search info to the government at the drop of a hat.
But Yahoo is trying to tell you it cares. The tools being released, are a pretty neat UI toolkit with features such as:
I have yet to really take an in-depth look at the code, but I expect a little more bloat than some of the other open source js toolkits out there.
Either way, it is released with a BSD license and is free to use. Give it a try–
I decided to do another Gmaps mashup, since I had so much fun with the first one .
This new one is a Google Map, with a bunch of Boulder,Colorado area Bars and Restaurants listed.
The kicker here, is that you can click on a marker, and get their happy hour information.
Whether you want a glass of wine, or just some appetizers, this map helps you find what you are looking for.
Also would be helpful, it you wanted to do a bar tour/walk of shame in Boulder.
CLICK HERE for the Gmap Happiness
EDIT:
Here is the link to the latest and greatest version of the Google Maps Snow Report
Here is a little page I put together for an RSS feed supplied version of the Colorado Snow Report.
This data is collected from the RSS feed at http://www.coloradoski.com For a link to the feed, try http://feeds.feedburner.com/snowreport
To update the data, click the link again. Any updated results from the RSS feed will automatically appear.
(PS. Check out the AJAX RSS feed reader on the sidebar, to see the ‘lite’ version of this)
In the continuing vein of my Ajax related posts, here is a link to an interesting Ajax toolkit, that simplifies the front end of content creation greatly.
Simplicity really is the key to making these technologies popular and viable.
Twilight Universe » Blog Archive » Sack of Ajax
Found a new site that has a lot of great references and information and articles about AJAX.
AJAX stuff is now my little development hobby, and I am finding myself rethinking any number of old applications I have written.
The ability to make web apps more user friendly is exciting. blah blah ..I love ajax..
Check out the site for some great resources and links.
