Tag Archives: Ajax

jQuery API site using WordPress as CMS

By Dougal | Published: January 19, 2010

I mentioned before that the jQuery project was going to switch from Mediawiki to using WordPress for their online documentation. They’ve recently pulled the trigger on that change, and you can now visit the new WordPress-powered site at: api.jquery.com

Performance and Backend

As mentioned before, we’ve switched away from using a MediaWiki backend to a new WordPress-powered backend. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged API, cms, content management, docs, documentation, JavaScript, jquery, libraries, livesearch, Search, WordPress | 5 Comments

I was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0

By Dougal | Published: January 12, 2009

Just about 7 years ago, Brent Ashley was experimenting with some dynamic browser/server communications using Javascript and IFRAMEs. This was one of the early techniques would later evolve into what we now call AJAX. [...]

Posted in Blogging | Also tagged blogchat, chat, datapocalypse, JavaScript, jsrs, Services, web2.0 | Comments closed

Atlanta PHP

By Dougal | Published: April 2, 2008

Tomorrow night, I will be attending the April Atlanta PHP meeting. My friend Glen Gordon will be giving a presentation titled, “I’m a PHP dev! Why should I care about Microsoft?”

There are a host of technologies and tools from Microsoft that can add value to your PHP solutions, save you time, and are just plain cool. [...]

Posted in Community, Development, Operating Systems, Servers, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged .net, Atlanta, fastcgi, iis, meeting, Microsoft, PHP, presentations, silverlight, Tech, WordPress | 2 Comments

Typography design patterns for the web

By Dougal | Published: July 5, 2007

When I’m putting a new web site together, one thing that sometimes bugs me is choosing which fonts to use. I’ll typically throw together a list of fonts that I like, decide to use this set of serif fonts for these page elements, and that set of sans-serif fonts for those other elements, select some fallback choices for my stylesheet, and let it go at that. Obviously, I’m no designer — or I’d be saying ‘typeface’ instead of ‘font’ — but I’d like to be able to make ‘better’ choices for my fonts.

I’ve done a little bit of searching, but I haven’t found what I’m looking for. [...]

Posted in CSS, Design, Ideas, Web Design | Also tagged Atom, CSS, Fonts, Web | 5 Comments

The State of FeedLounge

By Dougal | Published: December 5, 2005

Alex has posted a moderately detailed article explaining The State of FeedLounge. For any newcomers who don’t know what FeedLounge is, it’s a web based feed aggregator, not unlike BlogLines. But FeedLounge is a next-generation web service that looks and acts more like a desktop application than a web site.

I’m one of the lucky alpha testers who have had access for the last six months. [...]

Posted in Applications, Atom, Syndication | Also tagged Aggregators, FeedLounge, Feeds, RSS, Web | 10 Comments

Ajaxian multi-file uploads

By Dougal | Published: September 27, 2005

Over on StickBlog, there’s a nice little demo of using AJAX to provide a nice, clean interface for uploading multiple files in a web form. Only one file input is displayed at a time. As you add files, the input is replaced with information about the file, and a new file input is dynamically added. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Java, JavaScript, PHP, Programming, Web | 7 Comments

Map Service APIs

By Dougal | Published: July 1, 2005

Both Google and Yahoo! have announced APIs for their mapping services. I’ve already gotten a developer key for the Google service. But it doesn’t support address searches, only lat/lon coordinates. So I’m thinking about applying for a Yahoo! key, using their service for geocoding (translating from street addresses to coordinates), then using Google’s mapping interface with all of its Ajaxy goodness.

I don’t know what I plan to actually do with this stuff, or when I’d find time to do it. [...]

Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Tech | Also tagged API, Geocoding, Geography, Google, Programming, yahoo | 12 Comments

Feedlounge web-based aggregator

By Dougal | Published: June 10, 2005

Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. Color me impressed.

FeedLounge interface screenshot

Keeping in mind that this is alpha software, I’ll grant you that I found a couple of suggestions to make. [...]

Posted in Applications, Software | Also tagged Aggregators, CSS, Feeds, Folksonomies, Perl, PHP, Programming, RSS, Tags, Web | 18 Comments

Old wine in a new bottle

By Dougal | Published: March 24, 2005

The topic of Ajax is pretty hot right now. And some people are getting a little hot over the naming. As I pointed out yesterday, and as Ian Hickson and Dare Obasanjo have also said, Ajax is not a new technology. Web developers have been doing this stuff for years under various names. JavaScript Remote Scripting, Remote Scripting with IFRAME, JPSPAN. [...]

Posted in Browsers, Software, Tech | Also tagged dom, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Programming, Web | 14 Comments

Ajaxing the Rails

By Dougal | Published: March 23, 2005

If you’re a web developer, then hopefully you’ve already heard of Ruby on Rails and Ajax. If not, you’re behind the times, and you have some reading to do. New in Rails is built-in Ajax support.

I haven’t had time yet to play with Rails yet, but I’m itching to do so. Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby, an odd, interesting programming language (probably only ‘odd’ to me because I haven’t used it yet). [...]