Web 2.0 Programming

Formats: Manifest Files - Google Chrome Extensions - Google Code

2010-02-25T02:03:00.000-08:00

Formats: Manifest Files - Google Chrome Extensions - Google Code

You already apperceive what you charge to be a rockin' adaptable developer

2009-04-29T03:08:00.001-07:00

T-minus 4 weeks

We're continuing to tout the upcoming availability (about a month) of mobile Web development technology, which will be available as a stand-alone product as well as incorporated into MyEclipse releases in the future at no charge to subscribers.

One of the sweetest bullet points of this tooling is the ability to use what you already know (CSS, JavaScript, HTML) to create rich, powerful applications for the iPhone.

As our VP of Technology coined in a recent media article: "no funky subsets of Java to use [Java ME or Android's Java SE minus random stuff] or native languages [Objective-C and XCode for iPhone or C++ for Symbian]. What millions of [mobile] developers need to know, they already know: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript. All standardized and ready to go..."

And, these tools won't be limited to the iPhone moving forward. Many of the popular current and upcoming devices (including the Palm Pre) support the same Web standards, which will enable future programs to deploy across devices with minimal platform-specific modifications. Best of all: NO APP STORES to deal with.

You might think that Web applications can never be as rich or satisfying as native programs. We beg to differ. Take a peek:

Coming in a month or less, so stay tuned!

What appearance do you wish to see in MyEclipse?

2009-01-20T03:50:00.001-08:00

MyEclipse is a user-driven product. Your opinion truly matters. Over the years we have added features and functionality based on customer requests. As we have done in the past, your voice can be heard loud and clear through an easy poll. Let us know what you want to see!

Vote now!

Note: submitting to the poll requires a registration on the MyEclipse site (i.e. you must be logged in) to avoid spam or erroneous votes. If you do not wish to register, please leave your preference in a comment here. The choices available are:

Add PHP Support
Add a Java Profiler
Add Grails Support
Add Struts 2 Support
Add JBoss Seam Support
Add Ruby on Rails Support
Enhanced JSF/Facelets Support
Enhanced Ajax/JavaScript Tools
Enhanced Swing/Swing Framework Support
Enhanced DB Tool Support

MyEclipse 7.0 has arrived: Best alloy for JavaScript and REST Web Services

2008-12-15T03:37:00.001-08:00

For all of you who have been patiently waiting, your patience is being rewarded today! Genuitec is proud to announce the immediate availability of MyEclipse 7.0.

Download now!

This newest production release is built upon Eclipse 3.4.1/Ganymede and delivers the most comprehensive environment for Ajax and unmatched support for REST Web Services in the Eclipse space.

MyEclipse 7.0 is delivered on top of the Pulse Eclipse Management Platform, enabling users to customize and maintain MyEclipse environments both at the individual and corporate level.

Users will also note enhanced support and delivery of Maven. As an enhancement of the Maven4MyEclipse tooling found in 6.5, users can now choose between using Maven in its raw format or the fully-integrated Maven4MyEclipse solution. This allows more full customization of Maven tool capabilities dictated by user needs.

“The sheer breadth of options available to MyEclipse users with this release is truly daunting,” said Pete Carapetyan, product manager for Genuitec. “7.0 is a great blend of filling in some customer-requested feature gaps and polishing the already rich set of tools. I think our users will be very pleased with the advances.”

See postings on The ServerSide and DZone today for your chance to win a free MyEclipse 7.0 license.

Take MyEclipse 7.0 for a free trial or download it today. As always, existing customers receive this upgrade at no charge.

Allison, Genuitec, LLC

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IO achievement - Tar vs. File vs. Byte streams

2008-12-08T03:38:00.001-08:00

One of the most classic patterns in software is the producer-consumer pattern. There is a module producing data, and a module reading it for further processing. Moreover, in order to achieve better performance, usually there are many consumer modules running on many different threads while the producer (or several producers) run on its own thread. [...]

Buy MyEclipse on eBay

2008-09-18T16:32:00.001-07:00

You can now acquirement MyEclipse on eBay in accession to our main site!

Some auctions are even accessible after a assets amount so analysis aback actuality and on eBay for acceptable deals in the approaching

Happy programming!

MyEclipse: The Switzerland of Software

2008-09-18T03:32:00.001-07:00

Despite acumen to the adverse the appliance development accoutrement bazaar is accepting abate not beyond

Companies are blasting their assets into AppDev accoutrement which has fueled a contempo flurry of acquisitions RedHat/Jboss/Exadel Oracel/BEA/Workshop/NitroX Embarcadero/Codegear and the aftereffect has created a deluge of bell-ringer lock-in technologies and account endless Even Hewlett Packard's accommodation to access EDS may be a aboriginal footfall against a middleware and AppDev accoutrement play For these big players in exchange it is artlessly the attributes of the barbarian to attending for an always-bigger bazaar allotment

Not to rub alkali in any recently-opened wounds but that leaves a vanishingly baby amount of authentic absolute Enterprise/Web software accoutrement companies; and that includes Genuitec

But why do absolute vendors abide to angle alpine as some of the ivory building of accepted apparatus capacity blast The acknowledgment may lay in the “big boys'” all-embracing business strategies The M O of ample companies has frequently been to either carry their accoutrement barter into purchasing beyond accouterments pieces or to accord abroad the accoutrement as add-ons to middleware casework or accouterments sales In abbreviate development accoutrement today assume to serve a agency to and end rather than the best absorption of the user or to reflect accepted acceptance patterns

Thankfully the old aphorism of “the chump is consistently right” now applies to software accoutrement The chump is ambitious added adaptability beneath lock-in and greater customization options from their applique and they are not consistently annoyed with the big boys' acknowledgment as this recent blog about a presentation by Neal Ford demonstrates As a aftereffect of this annoyance users are generally axis to absolutely vendor-neutral customer-focused and not lock-in decumbent apparatus suites

The abstraction of vendor-neutral software is simple one to grasp: a developer encounters abounding altered needs during the day irrespective of their development accoutrement capabilities They again about-face to alfresco companies to ample these needs so they can do their job added finer These alfresco companies advance accoutrement for their users rather than for specific accouterments or software endless They admit that developers' calmly calmly get angry if customizing their IDEs to fit altered projects and accoutrement all-important for commutual their projects aural the constraints of lock-in accoutrement

Genuitec has championed the vendor-neutral archetypal in the accoutrement amplitude with the MyEclipse band of articles We accept stepped abroad from any one operating arrangement accouterments assemblage software array or “it wasn't invented here” mentality Our barter plan on a deluge of altered projects with altered accouterments vendors and requirements so the MyEclipse aggregation developed an IDE that is accordant with assorted servers acceptance patterns and platforms

As an archetype Bounce and Hide cipher bases do not by itself play accurately calm but their bifold functionality is one of the a lot of frequently acclimated configurations for web development A part of the abounding firsts MyEclipse has chip both accustomed them bifold adequacy and brought two actual altered camps calm in a customer-friendly way – and by chump appeal Analogously Genuitec ported the Matisse GUI Artist from Sun's NetBeans activity to accommodate our users with accepted Beat functionalities Why Because our barter asked us to and we were just crazy abundant to do it Matisse isn't an Concealment activity and is not natively accordant with Concealment But we admit that some technologies “outside” the acceptable Concealment capabilities still accept amount – abnormally if they are based on chump appeal

Relating this to beginning account a lot of of us are acquainted of the contempo buyout of BEA by Answer MySQL by Sun CodeGear by Embarcadero and a aggregation of added acquisitions in our amplitude If you are appliance these accoutrement what will appear to your assemblage in the advancing months You may be bound in and at the benevolence of the new company's play on them A vendor-neutral band-aid like MyEclipse can calmly allay these apropos with abounding abutment for over 30 appliance servers and hot-sync deployment This blazon of accepted abutment not alone allowances the chump in agreement of account but aswell in agreement of adherence Vendor-neutral companies who abide alfresco the boundaries action the user abundant accoutrement they charge after annoying about a company's acceptable continuing

We are not arguing the charge for developers to accept any specific tools; nor are we demography abandon with which accouterments systems are best Instead we focus on carrying the a lot of chip complete and affordable band-aid accessible to our users behindhand of their bearings

In accretion actual absolutely aloof allows companies like Genuitec to amount the spectrum of the newest and a lot of accepted technologies and bear those to our barter We are aloof with what solutions are aggressive with one addition which allows us to accept technologies that serve barter the best not those that serve a beyond accumulated calendar Our abandon from these agendas enables developers to do their jobs with the technologies they appeal

You‘ll apprehension there are actual few tools-only companies larboard in the amplitude and they‘re vendor-neutral and absolutely common Accompaniment

Allison Genuitec LLC

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Exposing collections: paranoia vs assurance approaches

2008-09-17T16:31:00.001-07:00

Whenever a chic in my archetypal contains a accumulating which requires that accurate affliction be taken with its items there’s an centralized agitation apropos how to betrayal it to added classes And with this there are two above schools: one the paranoia-based access which doesn’t acquiesce alien cipher to blow the collection’s centralized items and

Project Darkstar Assemblage Testing and Apish objects

2008-09-17T03:32:00.001-07:00

Ever back I started application TDD analysis apprenticed development methods in my plan I never chock-full I rarely alpha a activity after alive how I’ll analysis it and not just in Java: C# Objective-C and Python as able-bodied I’ve begin that TDD can be done in the a lot of absurd places such as servlets application Cactus

Build xml architect for Eclipse

2008-09-16T16:31:00.001-07:00

Know the activity if you’re just about to absolution cipher to the public’s eye and all you charge to do is address that annoying body book Even as I address it I feel it’s an understatement: the assignment of creating an ant body book can yield a few acceptable canicule out of anyone’s activity and even

Garbage Accumulating - The banana panel

2008-09-16T03:32:00.001-07:00

The Debris Accumulating set of posts Ancestors Alongside and Circumstantial Tips and Anamnesis Leaks are ones that I am alone actual appreciative of Aboriginal they were actual absorbing to address as the actual is acutely interesting; additional a lot of humans seemed to adore them and begin absorption in account them; and third it seems

GAE GWT and added 3 letter acronyms

2008-09-15T16:31:00.001-07:00

Earlier this ages Google appear and launched as a examination absolution a account alleged Google App Engine I anticipate that by all agency this account looks abundant as it scales your appliance automatically if appeal increases is fault-tolerant by absorption your appliance in a crazy arrangement of active-active servers and has a broadcast abstracts accumulator

Giving a breach for cleaner code

2008-09-14T16:31:00.001-07:00

Time for some auspicious the anamnesis with a Java accent affection apparently few use and maybe for a acceptable acumen Accept you’re active cipher on elements of an arrangement up until a assertive aspect is begin If your cipher finds that aspect it stops the abundance Accordingly your cipher ability attending like the following:for int

Enums, Generics and for-each loops in GWT 1.5

2008-09-14T03:31:00.001-07:00

For a brace of weeks now the Google Web Toolkit 1 5 anniversary 1 was accessible for download advertisement actuality This completes the set of Java accent appearance added to Java 5 by abacus abutment for enums abundant bigger than my workaround enum generics and for-each loops GWT itself even uses generics for the asynchronous calls

Switch by chic type

2008-09-13T16:32:00.001-07:00

Imagining a adjustment which receives as a constant a blazon Article instance and needs to accomplish some activity according to its blazon is not difficult In actuality there are several architecture patterns that if acclimated in aggregate advice break just that About this column is about abacus a new about-face case assemble to anticipate some boiler-plate

Administrative: Problems with the server

2008-09-13T03:32:00.001-07:00

I’m accepting a lot of problems with the server afresh Abounding humans accept complained that they accept approved to leave comments abominably I apprehend that the RSS feeds sometimes don’t plan and even my own administration is sometimes blocked off I am addition out the accomplish I should yield - advancement my accepted hosting plan or

Using OpenID aural GWT

2008-09-12T16:31:00.001-07:00

For those of you who don’t apperceive what OpenID is get to apperceive it now This column is traveling to be about how to use OpenID affidavit in your GWT applications First a admonition of what OpenID is:OpenID is a chargeless and simple way to use a individual agenda character beyond the Internet My point of appearance

Advanced JavaScript Applique Webinar chargeless

2008-09-12T03:31:00.001-07:00

NOTE: if you absent the Webinar you can appearance the archived video from the MyEclipse Webinars page

This Wednesday MyEclipse will be hosting a FREE webinar that will analyze the avant-garde JavaScript applique accessible in MyEclipse 7 0M1

Advanced JavaScript Development
Advanced JavaScript Development Wednesday Baronial 27 2008 11am CDT UTC bare 5 Length: 1 hour

This webinar will acquaint the eyewitness to some of the new JavaScript development accoutrement accessible in MyEclipse 7 0M1

We will yield a attending at administration stand-alone JavaScript assets as able-bodied as alive with libraries in our Web Projects JSP files and HTML files

Things like validation library administration and content-assist will all be covered

There will be a adventitious for Q&A at the end of the presentation

NOTE: Webinar absolute time is allocated for 2hrs just to accord affluence of allowance for QA affair the presentation itself will be appropriate about 1hr

Jens Genuitec LLC

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Introducing Maven4MyEclipse with MyEclipse 6.5

2008-09-11T16:31:00.001-07:00

Available today: the absolution of MyEclipse Action Board 6 5!

DOWNLOAD NOW!

What's in 6 5 for you

Well for the abounding of you who requested it we are appreciative to bear Maven4MyEclipse to our Able subscribers This will accomplish MyEclipse 6 5 the alone Java IDE to absolutely accommodate antecedent development and administration body planning and administration as able-bodied as server ascendancy Web Appliance and database server into one no-stop development ambiance

“We ahead that over 1 actor Java developers will be apparent to the advantages Maven4MyEclipse provides by the end of 2008 ” said Pete Carapetyan artefact administrator for MyEclipse in a staetment to the columnist “By carrying such a accepted and cardinal abundance apparatus MyEclipse is afresh accession itself as the a lot of able Java IDE on the bazaar as able-bodied as demonstrating the advancing allegation to accessible antecedent affiliation and accessory ”

Maven4MyEclipse supports the beheading of action Maven2 body and activity administration tasks such as activity address bearing from aural MyEclipse and apart appliance Adjudicator command band accoutrement By abacus Maven4MyEclipse's avant-garde functionality to the already-rich affection set of MyEclipse users will be apparent to the fastest and a lot of able end-to-end apparatus assemblage in the Java industry

“MyEclipse 6 5 represents a sea of change in the way enterprises attending at development accoutrement ” said Genuitec CEO Maher Masri aswell in account “By accumulation the new adaptable body and administration appearance of Maven4MyEclipse with MyEclipse's appliance server and database server hot-sync deployment controls corporations are able to advance projects end-to-end utilizing the latest accessible standards and Web 2 0 technologies after the albatross of bureaucracy and agreement or the altercation of continued server stop-start cycles ”

Also included in the MyEclipse 6 5 absolution are appearance and/or upgrades aboriginal alien in the M1 absolution including:

MyEclipse Portlet accoutrement
Spring IDE 2 0 for MyEclipse upgrade
Hibernate Accoutrement 3 2 for MyEclipse advancement
Java Server Faces JSF and Facelets enhancements
ICEfaces 1 7 JSF Ajax UI Basic Update
MyEclipse Web and UML apparatus updates

MyEclipse 6 5 is accessible for actual download and chargeless aisle Accepted MyEclipse subscribers as consistently will accept admission to the new absolution chargeless of allegation

Allison Genuitec LLC

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Genuitec Unlocks Accessible Standards for RAD and WebSphere Developers

2008-09-11T03:32:00.001-07:00

Though a lot of humans are adulatory the blush blooming today Genuitec is aflame about Dejected Genuitec appear today the abundant advancing accepted availability absolution of MyEclipse 6 1 Dejected Copy a tailored customizable toolsuite for WebSphere developers

The success of the anniversary absolution of MyEclipse 6 1 Dejected Copy and consecutive chump ascribe collection development for the accepted availability absolution which provides users with all of the capabilities of the MyEclipse Board Able Copy and abounding affinity with the IBM WebSphere server

Quick artefact absolution cycles about every 8 to 10 weeks acquiesce Genuitec to accommodate developers with accessible accepted accoutrement and affluent bartering affection sets that accept not been fabricated accessible by IBM's RAD Developers application MyEclipse Dejected Copy can adapt their WebSphere-compatible plan environments to advance MyEclipse Dejected Edition's avant-garde appearance such as Ajax applique added Hide accoutrement Bounce capabilities JPA Struts JSF Web architecture accoutrement database abutment third-party libraries and abundant added

“MyEclipse 6 1 Dejected Copy provides developers able accoutrement to get a jump on technology innovations while application RAD for assembly administration and to abide demography affliction of bequest development ” said Maher Masri CEO for Genuitec “Users of the MyEclipse Dejected Copy can yield advantage of MyEclipse's accelerated technology acceptance to accumulate up with the latest accessible standards and arising technologies at a cogent amount accumulation ”

MyEclipse Dejected Copy supports Websphere 5 1 6 0 and 6 1 and will be accessible for download alpha Advance 17 2008 Anniversary subscriptions of MyEclipse Dejected Copy are 149

Allison Genuitec LLC

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MyEclipse Now on Ganymede

2008-09-10T16:31:00.001-07:00

We‘ve just appear the aboriginal anniversary absolution of MyEclipse 7 0

Download now

This absolution delivers abounding ALM capabilities for Concealment 3 4 Ganymede and provides added advertisement accoutrement

In accession to Concealment Ganymede abutment and MyEclipse Ajax for JEE applique MyEclipse 7 0 M1 includes a abundantly bigger set of JSF and Advertisement accoutrement a part of added enhancements

Users can apprehend a additional anniversary of the 7 0 artefact in about six weeks and the accepted availability absolution is currently slated for backward October

We're aflame to accord users the advantage of an even faster way to access MyEclipse 7 0 M1 and Concealment Ganymede through Beating Genuitec's software profiling and Eclipse plugin administration service The Beating account was overwhelmingly accepted with those users accepting the abject Concealment Ganymede projects arch Genuitec to accommodate this advantage to users adulatory to download this anniversary absolution The anniversary is accessible in the Ganymede “Popular Profiles” breadth

Also today for all you WebSphere users be abiding to analysis out the anniversary absolution of MyEclipse 7 0 Dejected Edition

As consistently accepted subscribers can advancement to this absolution for no allegation

Allison Genuitec LLC

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MyEclipse Releases 6 0 1 with Concealment 3 3 1 Abutment Examples On-Demand

2008-09-10T03:32:00.001-07:00

Genuitec is appreciative to advertise the actual availability of MyEclipse Action Board 6 0 1 This aliment absolution enhances developer abundance by abundantly acceptable the Concealment 3 3 1/Europa belvedere abacus apparatus of Java 6 abutment and streamlining Ajax and JSF abundance

Download MyEclipse 6 0 1 Now!

New & Noteworthy

Additionally MyEclipse 6 0 1 offers Examples On-Demand a new web website to accommodate software developers a affluent and anytime growing archive of ready-to-run archetype applications that authenticate how to use accepted programming technologies and frameworks such as Ajax frameworks JSP JSF Struts Bounce Hide JPA and EJB3 Anniversary of the Examples On-Demand archetype applications are advised to run anon on the server-sandbox provided in MyEclipse 6 0 1 with aught agreement and can be downloaded anon into MyEclipse 6 0 1 with a 1-click accession action

Additional notable appearance and capabilities include:

dataTable Support
Content-Assist for h:dataTable's var
Navigation Case Agreeable Assist
Navigation Case Validation

EJB 3 pagination support
JPA

Dynamic table creation
Pagination support

MyEclipse Hide Accoutrement Upgrades
Ajax Proxy Support
UML enhancements
MyEclipse Bounce Accoutrement upgrade
Database disciplinarian upgrades
Tomcat 6 anchorage configuration
Much more!

Jens Genuitec LLC

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MyEclipse Gives WebSphere an Ajax Booster Attempt Concealment Ganymede Support

2008-09-09T16:31:00.001-07:00

MyEclipse 7 0 Dejected Copy is accessible today!

DOWNLOAD NOW!

This aboriginal anniversary absolution delivers Concealment 3 4 technology Ajax for JEE to WebSphere developers

To accumulate accretion bland Genuitec is accouterment Dejected Copy users with the fastest and easiest way to access MyEclipse 7 0 Dejected Copy M1: Beating Genuitec‘s software profiling and Concealment plugin administration account The Beating account was overwhelmingly accepted with users accepting the abject Concealment Ganymede that we absitively to action this advantage for the anniversary absolution to ensure alert and able supply to our users Users can acquisition the Anniversary absolution in the Ganymede “Popular Profiles” breadth and from there can you can calmly administer their admired third-party accoutrement in Pulse‘s sharable software profiles

In accession to acknowledging Ganymede and carrying avant-garde Ajax applique MyEclipse 7 0 Dejected Copy M1 includes:

SR 168 Portlets support
Maven 2 abutment
EJB and Java Projects support
Advanced deployment modes for J2EE/JEE projects
WebSphere-compatible Web Casework abutment and the latest Java EE 5 development accoutrement for the WebSphere Appliance Server 6 1
Web Casework and Web 2 0 affection packs
Spring IDE for MyEclipse
Hibernate Accoutrement for MyEclipse
JSF/Facelets support
MyEclipse Reports
much more!

As consistently with MyEclipse Dejected Copy accepted subscribers will accept this advancement at no allegation

Happy downloading!

Allison Genuitec LLC

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Ajax, Google Maps and MyEclipse

2008-09-09T13:31:00.001-07:00

Greetings! My name is Greg and I'm a appreciative affiliate of the MyEclipse development aggregation One of my primary areas of focus is alive on the Ajax development accoutrement in the MyEclipse IDE I anticipation it ability be advantageous to columnist a column about what's new in Ajax development in MyEclipse 6 0 There are some things in it that I anticipate are absolutely agitative and hopefully others will adore them as able-bodied

Some of our new users may not apprehend that the Ajax accoutrement in MyEclipse in fact go aback absolutely a few versions all the way aback to MyEclipse 4 1 in the Abatement of 2005 Those were appealing crazy canicule arch up to the aboriginal absolution of our Ajax accoutrement MyEclipse was the actual aboriginal IDE artefact that included Ajax development accoutrement like JavaScript Debugging and as-you-type syntax validation So we've absolutely appear a continued way with the contempo absolution of MyEclipse 6 0 to bear a abundant bigger JavaScript debugger Ajax Web Browser and new acknowledging angle Advertisement out all of the concise appearance actuality would actualize an cacographic laundry account so you can apprehend added about them on this page

One of the above industry changes over the endure 3 years of Ajax acceptance is the amount of accessible web APIs that are accessible to Ajax developers There is no bigger archetype of this than the Google Maps API But there's no charge to abhorrence With MyEclipse 6 0 you accept all the accoutrement you charge to yield advantage of the affluent array of Google APIs that are accessible to web developers

The archetype that I wish to accompany to your absorption today is the Google Maps Archetype activity But for this column today I just wish to point out a few items accompanying to accepting started with Google Maps and aswell Ajax Development in accepted

Sidebar: The MyEclipse Apprenticeship aggregation has put calm a absolutely nice audience that shows a affirmation of alive with this archetype activity If you accept some time you ability wish to analysis out that audience Google Maps Development Demo

Aboriginal there is now a acutely simple way to get admission to real-world ready-to-run examples projects which are accessible in the Examples On-Demand Athenaeum from aural MyEclipse 6 0

Installing the Google Maps archetype activity is a 1-click operation:

Now that the activity is loaded just right-click the activity binder and accept "Debug As > MyEclipse Server Application" Thats it! Now you can affect your co-workers with your Ajax abilities :

Before you starting searching about in the archetype cipher I capital to acknowledgment that the Instant-On debugger activity is now accessible aural the chip browser toolbar For both the accepted MyEclipse Web Browser and the Ajax Web Browser you can activate debugging the JavaScript in the Browser by appliance the Instant-On Debugger activity

This creates a new JavaScript debugging affair from which you can alter the Google Maps audience appliance that will be active in the Ajax Web Browser Now you can set breakpoints in your JavaScript cipher ambassador the Browser DOM nodes watch for JavaScript errors and appraise expressions which chock-full at breakpoints

Click to see a beyond angel of JavaScript debugging in action

There is just too abundant Ajax advantage for me to awning in one blog column so I will accept to appointment you afresh anon with some added advice so analysis aback actuality generally or subscribe to this blog Actuality are some added advantageous links:

If you accept any questions or comments amuse aftereffect appliance this post's comments I'll be watching and would adulation to acknowledgment your questions

Greg MyEclipse Development Team

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UUID Generator in JavaScript

2008-09-09T10:12:00.001-07:00

Robert Kieffer didn't like any UUID generators out there, so decided to create a lightweight randomUUID.js script. It creates RFC 4122-compliant ids:The practice is probably a little different. The uniqueness depends on how random the numbers generated by Math.random() are. Generating truly random numbers is a notoriously tricky problem, solved in different (imperfect) ways across [...]

Form access control via jQuery and Jaxer

2008-09-09T07:12:00.001-07:00

Tom Kirkpatrick has written about writing one form, and using access control to map it to various roles using jQuery and Jaxer.This is a simple pattern. You never want to use client code to manage access, for obvious reasons. The approach is to use the server to spew out HTML that makes sense, and then [...]

The JavaScript Framework Long Tail

2008-09-06T07:12:00.001-07:00

One of the reasons Dion is such an effective editor here at Ajaxian is his sense for filtering all of the available news from the Ajax community down to about three stories a day. Truth-be-told, with all the submissions we get and what we find on our own, we could easily post 10 stories a [...]

Audible Ajax Episode 29: Interview with Google’s Gavin Doughtie

2008-09-06T04:12:00.001-07:00

In the run up to The Ajax Experience conference coming up at the end of this month, Dion and I thought it would be fun to interview a few of the speakers. In this episode of Audible Ajax, we talk with Gavin Doughtie, a Dojo contributor and Google employee. The topics range from browser graphics [...]

Cappuccino and Objective-J released as opensource

2008-09-06T01:12:00.001-07:00

We were all very impressed with the work that the 280 North team did with 280 Slides, and they fulfilled their promise by opensourcing Cappuccino and Objective-J under LGPL:Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.Cappuccino is built on top of [...]

jTPS: Animated Sortable Datagrid jQuery plugin

2008-09-05T22:12:00.001-07:00

The data grid above is a jQuery plugin jTPS that creates a table you can sort and page through, using nice animations, all via a simple call out:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: $(document).ready(function () {$(’#TABLETOCONTROL’).initTable( {perPages:[5,12,15,50,'ALL']} ).controlTable();});

gameQuery:

2008-09-05T19:12:00.001-07:00

Selim Arsever wants to make it easier to great JavaScript games, so he created gameQuery, based on jQuery.gameQuery allows you to declare animations, which are made of one image with a succession of frames just like in a css sprite. An animation in itself doesn't exist until it's associated with a sprite.PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: var myAnimation = [...]

Dojo Multifile Uploader with Flash

2008-09-05T10:12:00.001-07:00

SitePen continues their work on Deft with a multi-file uploader:The Dojo Toolkit now has support for multi-file uploads, thanks to the new Deft project. The dojox.form.FileUploader class embeds a hidden SWF file in the page which, when triggered, will open a system dialog that supports multiple file selection, and also file masks, which allows the [...]

Zend Framework 1.6: Dojo, SOAP, Testing, Tooling, and more

2008-09-05T07:12:00.001-07:00

Andi Gutmans announced Zend Framework 1.6 which includes the new Dojo support which they put to work on the site itself:With this release we continue to provide enterprise-grade features with our new Zend_Soap component, which brings PHP-style simplicity to building and exposing SOAP web services. This component can operate in both WSDL and non-WSDL [...]

IE 8 Security and nosniff

2008-09-05T04:12:00.001-07:00

Eric Lawrence posted on IE 8 security issues in the beta 2 release, which include:Restricting document.domainIn Internet Explorer 7, the following set of calls would succeed:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: // initial document.domain is app1.example.com document.domain = "app1.example.com"; // 1. Domain property set to default value document.domain = "example.com"; // 2. “Loosen” [...]

Adding Custom Tags To Internet Explorer, The Official Way

2008-09-05T01:12:00.001-07:00

There have been some clever tricks to create new custom tags in Internet Explorer, such as the createElement trick. However, I never realized that Internet Explorer itself provides a facility to define new tags in the markup and have them styled, since Internet Explorer 5!Some details from the MSDN documentation on this feature, titled "Using [...]

Brendan discusses how TraceMonkey is climbing faster; Ruby on the Web with V8

2008-09-04T22:12:00.001-07:00

Brendan Eich jumped right in and benchmarked the tip of tree for TraceMonkey, with the V8 version that came with Google Chrome:We win on the bit-banging, string, and regular expression benchmarks. We are around 4x faster at the SunSpider micro-benchmarks than V8.This graph does show V8 cleaning our clock on a couple of recursion-heavy tests. [...]

Audible Ajax Episode 28: The State of Ajax, with Chrome and friends

2008-09-04T19:12:00.001-07:00

Everyone knows that the big news of the week is Google Chrome, Chromium, and V8. Ben and I sat down for our podcast update and delve deeper at how all of the browsers are doing interesting things and progressing nicely. We discuss SquirrelFish, TraceMonkey, and of course V8.We also delve into Canvas land and the [...]

Coverflow again…. with Canvas

2008-09-04T10:12:00.001-07:00

For some reason, we like to implement Coverflow to see if the technology of choice is decent enough to do so. This latest version works with Canvas, and does a nice job of smoothly doing the animations at hand. All you have to do is:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: Coverflow.init( [ [...]

Drag and drop via sneaky Textarea hack

2008-09-04T07:12:00.001-07:00

Ernest Delgado put together work from an earlier project, and the realization that textareas are native drop targets, to create Drag and Drop without Drag and Drop.Something that I never realized before is that text areas are drop targets by default. Using this property alone (without registering drag events on the source elements), we can [...]

Xsstc: Cross-site scripting through CSS data

2008-09-04T04:12:00.001-07:00

Wes Biggs has posted on Xsstc, his cross-site scripting solution that uses CSS to hide the data:It turns out CSS leaks data in a very subtle way. Properties set by an external stylesheet (that is, one that is loaded using a LINK REL="STYLESHEET" tag) are used to style the elements of the host page, and [...]

QUnit: A simple look at the jQuery unit test framework

2008-09-04T01:12:00.001-07:00

Chad Myers has a simple look at GUnit, the jQuery based unit test framework. His article explains how to get going, and walks through a test like this:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: module("Show and Hide"); test("should hide the element when hide is called", function(){ $("#testDiv").hide(); // actual, expected equals($("#testDiv").css("display"), "none", "The element should be hidden");}); test("should show the [...]

Google Chrome, Chromium, and V8

2008-09-03T01:12:00.001-07:00

It is really exciting to see the level of pace that browsers have been setting recently, especially with respect to performance.I have been able to keep in sync with Google Chrome the new browser, and Chromium, the open source code-base it comes from. There are a couple of innovations that have been great to see [...]

Firefox implements 3 CSS properties: text-shadow, -moz-box-shadow and -moz-column-rule

2008-09-02T22:12:00.001-07:00

Michael Ventnor has blogged about the new support for text-shadow, -moz-box-shadow and -moz-column-rule which follows on with Safari and Opera. The subtle effects really add a great touch when NOT used gratuitously. The samples are both ;)If you’ve been following the Gecko 1.9.1 development since it started then you’re probably already aware of, and possibly [...]

This Week in HTML5; Open Web Podcast with Anne van Kesteren

2008-09-02T19:12:00.001-07:00

The tag-team HTML5 series, and Open Web Podcast is back this week with new content.First, Mark Pilgrim’s This Week in HTML 5 Episode 4 comes to you with the weekly summary: The big news this week is the birth of the W3C’s experimental HTML 5 validator (announcement). It is based on Henri Sivonen’s experimental [...]

toStaticHTML: Sanitize your HTML in IE 8

2008-09-02T10:12:00.001-07:00

The IE 8 beta has a new method, toStaticHTML that sanitizes HTML strings by removing dHTML elements and attributes from an HTML fragment.The example they give is:PLAIN TEXTHTML: <script type="text/javascript">function sanitize() { var szInput = myDiv.innerHTML; var szStaticHTML = toStaticHTML(szInput); ResultComment = "\ntoStaticHTML sanitized the HTML fragment as follows:\n" + [...]

addSizes.js: automatic link file-size generation

2008-09-02T07:12:00.001-07:00

Nathalie Downe has taken Simon Willison's json-head App Engine mini-service and used it to create addSizes.js, a little script that looks for large files linked from a page, and automatically adds their file size to the copy after the link.Once in place, you simple do your usual link, and asynchronously the Web page will be [...]

Open Flash Chart for GWT Released

2008-09-01T22:12:00.001-07:00

Grant Slender has released the Open Flash Chart GWT Widget Library which “provides a simple to use chart widget for GWT based on Open Flash Chart 2. It uses a modified POJO bean model from OFC4J that is serialized using GWT JSON to provide the correct GWT Client data that meets the requirements of the [...]

Aptana keeps moving with jQuery/Ext support, and Python love via PyDev

2008-09-01T19:12:00.001-07:00

Aptana has three posts in a row for us Ajax folk. They have updated support for the latest and greatest versions of the Ext and jQuery libraries:jQuery 1.2.6 supportExt 2.2 supportAptana has a javadoc/jsdoc like system called ScriptDoc that you can use to document your APIs nicely for the tool, and we are seeing more [...]

CSS Sprites2: Return of the JS

2008-09-01T10:12:00.001-07:00

In March 2004, Dave Shea wrote about CSS Sprites, and now he is back with CSS Sprites 2. He walks us through using JavaScript to make this all work nicely, and picks jQuery to get 'er done:After putting this together piece by piece, we end up with:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: $(document).ready(function(){ // remove link background [...]

foreignObject: Hey, you’ve got HTML in my SVG!

2008-09-01T07:12:00.001-07:00

The SVG foreignObject tag allows you to mix non-SVG content into your page. For example, you could drop some HTML in the middle of an SVG element.Firefox 3 recently announced support for foreignObject; both Safari and Opera have supported this tag for awhile.From Mark Finkle comes two examples (1, 2). The first embeds some HTML [...]

jQuery.com redesigned with a Rock Star

2008-08-30T19:12:00.001-07:00

When I was doing an interview with John Resig for the Open Web Podcast, he mentioned that the redesign of jQuery.com had a lot of people talking, and it seems like people have strong feelings about the Rock Star for whatever reason.Ignoring the style, the redesign is more than just that:The entirety of the site [...]

GWT 1.5 final release is shipped and out the door

2008-08-30T10:12:00.001-07:00

I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete:GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you’re counting. We’re also happy that one of those is issue 168, [...]

qooxdoo 0.8: new GUI toolkit and tool chain

2008-08-30T07:12:00.001-07:00

qooxdoo 0.8 has been released and it appears to have a lot of big changes. Andreas Ecker told us a little about it:While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version numberover the previous 0.7.3, the actual changes are huge. In particular theUI capabilities as well as the developer tool chain were [...]

Degrading script tags for fun and profit

2008-08-30T04:12:00.001-07:00

John Resig posted on degrading script tags and adding functionality to <script> so you can add a src attribute and a body of code that will be executed one the external script loaded error free:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: <script src="some-lib.js"> var foo = use_some_lib(); foo.do.stuff();</script> To make this all work, John shows us a jquery aware version that detects [...]

The Ajax Experience Framework Summit

2008-08-30T01:12:00.001-07:00

We talked a few months ago about something new we're doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the "Framework Summit." Basically, we're providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own half-day events on-site, and these events are free and open to the general public.Since we announced the summit, the frameworks have [...]

Inkscape: Open Source Drawing for SVG

2008-08-29T19:12:00.001-07:00

I recently ran across Inkscape, an open source very high-quality graphics editor that can output SVG that I’m blown away by. Even better, it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. From the Inkscape website:[Inkscape is] an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C [...]

The State of SVG Browser Support + Using Flash for SVG in Internet Explorer

2008-08-29T10:12:00.001-07:00

As part of the Open Web Advocacy work I’ve started with Dion and others at Google, one of my goals right now is to help increase awareness and support around doing 2-D/vector graphics on the open web. This includes tools such as the Canvas tag, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML markup language for vector [...]

In Praise of Evolvable Systems

2008-08-29T07:12:00.001-07:00

I met with a colleague recently who wants to take his project and create a standard on the web that actually gets adopted. We talked for a long time, and when we finished up I pointed him at a paper that had a huge impact on me, called “In Praise of Evolvable Systems” by Clay [...]

GALGWT 1.0… it isn’t a land next to Mordor

2008-08-29T04:12:00.001-07:00

GWT has long had a project that aimed to give rich support for Google APIs called GALGWT, or “Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit”.This project has stepped up to higher gear recently, and we have seen the GALGWT 1.0 release candidate appear.What is in GALGWT?The project is a collection of libraries that provide Java [...]

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 and Web Standards

2008-08-29T01:12:00.001-07:00

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released today. There are several cool UI enhancements that this beta brings to the table that I won't cover in this post, but you can learn more about them on the IEBlog. Instead, I want to talk about how beta 2 affects IE's relationship to web standards.First, CSS Expressions [...]

YouTube Uploader now using Gears, and what people missed in Gears 0.4

2008-08-28T22:14:00.001-07:00

While we posted about the Gears 0.4 features a lot of the press only really talked about the Geolocation piece. I think that is important, and posted on that too, but Brad's piece discussed the full gamut including the Blob API, resummable HTTP, and Desktop API improvements to allow controlled file system access. The example [...]

Proxy issues with querystrings in path names

2008-08-28T19:12:00.001-07:00

You have seen this before: /path/to/something.js?v=2, or maybe it used a date or a version control id or some such. The notion of putting the version into the URL so you can aggressively cache and yet quickly push new versions.There has long been issues with using the querystring as the version. At some point I [...]

Towards Using Custom Fonts

2008-08-28T10:12:00.001-07:00

A little while ago, we talked about the two competing custom font technologies for the Web: linking and "embedding" (aka EOT). With Firefox about to implement support for linking à la Safari, John Allsopp has a summary of the state of font technologies and an illustration of just how easy it is to use these [...]

Ubiquity: Quicksilver of the Firefox browser

2008-08-28T07:12:00.001-07:00

Aza Raskin and the Mozilla Labs team have launched Ubiquity the command line tool that they have been talking about for awhile.Ubiquity is "experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily."The overall [...]

Using CSS to do the print watermark technique

2008-08-28T04:12:00.001-07:00

Andy Pemberton has put together a simple solution to get the watermark technique to work nicely with print CSS.Check out the sample and pull up a print preview. He details the good, bad, and ugly:The GoodThe first step to getting a printable watermark is to use an inline tag, rather than background-images. In most [...]

jParallax Turns Elements into a Viewport

2008-08-28T01:12:00.001-07:00

In the “oh wow, I didn’t know JavaScript could do that” category, I just came across a cool new jQuery plugin called jParallax which implements a parallax effect on selected elements. Now, I’m not ashamed to admit not knowing what “parallax” meant so I looked it up on Wikipedia which totally added closure to the [...]

navigator.geolocation: Using the W3C Geolocation API today

2008-08-27T22:14:00.001-07:00

Last week I wrote a simple WhereAreYou? application that used the Google Ajax APIs ClientLocation API to access your location via your IP address.At the same time, we announced support for the Gears Geolocation API that can calculate your address using a GPS device, WiFi info, cell tower ids, and IP address lookups.Add to all [...]

Firebug 1.2: The final release is out there

2008-08-27T19:12:00.001-07:00

John has announced the Firebug 1.2 final release. As well as just supporting Firefox 3, there are some quality improvements:The Script panel (the JavaScript debugger), the Net panel (network monitoring), and Console panel have all seen considerable updates. They’re all much more performant and have a huge number of bug fixes.Specifically the Console panel has [...]

Understanding context in your New Tab

2008-08-27T10:12:00.001-07:00

Aza Raskin and the Mozilla Labs team looks like they are having a lot of fun. They have been putting up proposals for new UIs and the latest involves a smarter new tab screen.
Aza discusses how opening a blank screen doesn’t really help you. Opera already allows you to have a quick dial screen show [...]

Want a Free Pass to The Ajax Experience?

2008-08-27T07:12:00.001-07:00

That’s right, a free pass! We are raffling off one free pass to The Ajax Experience show in Boston, September 29 – October 1. That means that you can attend the $1495 event for free, courtesy of Ajaxian.com.
There’s no catch. We are giving away one free pass to The Ajax Experience. The free pass only [...]

Razor Profiler: Check out your Ajax code

2008-08-27T04:12:00.001-07:00

Razor Profiler is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally, and was created by Coach Wei who has done a lot of work [...]

Putting together GWT and Spring

2008-08-27T01:12:00.001-07:00

Dave Kuhn has put together a comprehensive guide to piecing together GWT and Spring, a nice recipe for the Java heads among you.
Dave starts out by detailing why you would want to do this, and how it changes the architecture of your application.
He then gets to a tutorial that has you creating the project correctly, [...]

ImageInfo: reading image metadata (EXIF) with JavaScript

2008-08-26T22:12:00.001-07:00

Jacob Seidelin finishes up his binary meme with a post on reading image metadata with JavaScript via a library that groks EXIF data.

It tries to detect the format of the image file and then reads the header and pulls out information about dimensions and color depth among other things. If the EXIF data library is [...]

Sizzle: John Resig has a new selector engine

2008-08-26T19:12:00.001-07:00

John Resig is working on a new selector engine called Sizzle:

This is a new selector engine that I'm working on.
It's a work in progress! Not ready for use yet!
It's definitely not ready yet (got some minor outlier bugs in the standards-compliant browsers - and a bunch of major bugs in IE still left to tackle) [...]

JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox)

2008-08-23T10:12:00.001-07:00

For years, many of us have been salivating over the idea of JIT’ed JavaScript in the browser. Adobe’s JIT’ing Flash VM showed a preview of tremendous speed gains to be had, but we’ve had to wait until SquirrelFish from WebKit to see anything dramatic happen in the browser.
Until now.
Mozilla just let the cat out of [...]

Gears 0.4 + Mashup of Gears and Google App Engine

2008-08-23T07:12:00.001-07:00

Hi folks, this is my first guest blog post here on Ajaxian. It’s great to join the team.
Gears, the open source browser plugin that teaches web browsers new tricks, has pushed out a new 0.4 release.
Andrei Popescu from the Gears team lets us in on some of the nifty new features:
We have added a new [...]

The Ajax Experience: Early Bird Deadline is Today!

2008-08-23T04:12:00.001-07:00

The $100 early bird discount for The Ajax Experience expires today, August 22! Don’t wait! Register now to reserve your spot at the lowest price.
The Ajax Experience conference takes place September 29 – October 1 in Boston. Register today to save $100 with the early bird rate.
The Ajax Experience is the original [...]

HTML 5: The event loop, hashchange, and more

2008-08-23T01:12:00.001-07:00

Mark Pilgrim continues to keep us up to date with news in HTML 5 land. This week he talks to us about the birth of the event loop, and the hashchange event.
I saw this just after posting about the cross browser hashchange example by Zach Leatherman. In the future we will see a nice, standard [...]

The Ajax Experience: Early Bird Deadline is Today!

2008-08-22T22:12:00.001-07:00

Emulating onhashchange without setInterval

2008-08-22T19:13:00.001-07:00

IE 8 has an onhashchange event, and Ajax history / bookmark management has been a long time problem of choice for developers.
Zach Leatherman has revisited the problem and has another solution that doesn’t require setInterval to check on the location.

On initialization, we load an iframe onto the page that is positioned absolutely at -500px,-500px so [...]

WARNING: JSLint may continue to hurt your feelings

2008-08-22T10:13:00.001-07:00

JSLint is an old tool in the toolbox, created by Douglas Crockford. I am sure you know about it. But, do you know how often it is updated?
You may notice the “Edition 2008-08-18″ on the site, which shows that it was updated recently. After being on the jslint group, I see that there are very [...]

Bomberman in MooTools

2008-08-22T07:13:00.001-07:00

Munteanu Gabriel has created today’s Friday JavaScript game. It is an old favourite…. Bomberman.
Munteanu has released the code as an open source project, and you can get going to bomb away now

Page Test: Run AOL’s tool in the cloud, then sit back and wait

2008-08-22T01:13:00.001-07:00

Patrick Meenan has setup an IE7 instance in Virginia that we can poke to do an AOL Page Test.
You give it a URL and some options such as the number of runs, whether to see the first and repeat views, and off it runs.
When finished you get to see the results which give you high [...]

Ajax Head Pattern; Unobtrusive Rails Apps

2008-08-21T22:13:00.001-07:00

Ken Collins has rewritten his Homemarks application, a Rails app that "allows you to dynamically create and sort Columns, Boxes, and Bookmarks into your own custom start page."
What is interesting about the rewrite is the new approach that Ken took; the Ajax Head Pattern as he described it:

HomeMarks was built using the Ruby on Rails [...]

querySelectorAll is coming fast

2008-08-21T19:13:00.001-07:00

We have all been talking about querySelectAll for awhile, but John Resig gives us a wrap-up that covers the state of play.
He talks about the browsers, and the libraries that wrap them and clean up shop via code like:
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function querySelectorAll(selector){

try {

return Array.prototype.slice.call(

document.querySelectorAll( selector ) );

} catch(e){}

return [...]

Chain.js: jQuery Data Binding Service

2008-08-21T10:13:00.001-07:00

Rizqi Ahmad has created a data binding service for jQuery called Chain.js.
A simple example shows you where to start. When given HTML like:
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<div id="quickdemo">

<div class="item"><span class="library">Library Name</span></div>

</div>

The following JavaScript will add data as items to the list:
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$('#quickdemo')

.items([

{library:'Prototype'},

{library:'jQuery'},

{library:'Dojo'},

[...]

Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle

2008-08-21T07:13:00.001-07:00

Creating a lot of HTML using DOM methods can be a real pain. This is what students of the Juku training course that I held two weeks ago found out quite quickly and complained about the verbosity of it all. I listened to their concerns and came up with a framework for JavaScript applications called
ViewsHandler. [...]

The lessons of CSS frameworks

2008-08-21T04:13:00.001-07:00

Jeremy Keith has been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye.
Eric took a look at the most popular CSS frameworks (960, Blueprint, Content With Style, That Standards Guy, YAML, YUI, Elements, Tripoli, WYMStyle) and talks about choosing one...

Let’s get [...]

Running server side processes via JavaScript with Jaxer

2008-08-21T01:13:00.001-07:00

Tom Kirkpatrick has written about a new API in Jaxer, Jaxer.Process, that allows you to call out to the host operating system. His example has a call out to get the uptime on the machine:
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<script runat="server-proxy">

function runUptime() {

// run the uptime and return the output from STDOUT

return Jaxer.Process.exec("/usr/bin/uptime");

}

</script>

You [...]

WaveMaker 4: Point and Click Ajax

2008-08-20T22:13:00.001-07:00

WaveMaker Studio 4.0 the Ajax based visual development platform for creating web applications has been released. Version 4.0 includes a new look and feel, usability improvements, and a host of new features.

Building applications has been made easier by a syntax highlighting code editor, improved widget drag and drop, undo, simplified data binding, more flexible css [...]

Ra Ajax: Ajax for .NET

2008-08-20T19:13:00.001-07:00

Thomas Hansen is a vocal member of the community, and worked on Gaia Widgets in the past. Now he has moved on to create his own opensource library Ra Ajax, an Ajax library for .NET. (He has posted the bloody details of how he "left").
He is experimenting, and writing up a series of "how to [...]

Reading ID3 tags with JavaScript

2008-08-20T01:13:00.001-07:00

Jacob Seidelin is up to more tricks, this time playing with the binary side of life and writing a library that can reading ID3 tags from MP3 files and such.
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// URL of the mp3 file (must be on the same domain!)

var file = "mymusicfile.mp3";

// define your own callback function

function mycallback() {

// either call the [...]

Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Show/Hide Login Panel Built with MooTools

2008-08-19T22:13:00.001-07:00

Conserving screen real-estate while still providing good content to the user has always been a challenge for designers and developers and while larger screen dimensions are becoming more prominent, it's still important to take full advantage of the space available to you. Jeeremie over at Web Kreation came up with a very cool method of [...]

Getting method_missing, or _noSuchMethod into Harmony

2008-08-19T19:13:00.001-07:00

Yehuda Katz saw the Harmony news, and wondered if there was a change to get _noSuchMethod, which currently works in implementations such as SpiderMonkey, into the new JavaScript world of: Harmony = ES3.1++.

In summary, it seems that the two groups agreed to focus cooperative effort of ECMAScript 3.1, a modest improvement of the current JavaScript [...]

SmartGWT: LGPL GWT wrapper on SmartClient

2008-08-19T10:13:00.001-07:00

Sanjiv Jivan, original creator of GWT-Ext, posted on SmartGWT, a new wrapper on top of SmartClient.
Charles Kendrick of Isomorphic, creator of SmartClient, announced the new project as well as the approach they have taken:

we’ve taken an approach of generating GWT code from SmartClient’s documentation, combined with hand-coding portions that can’t feasibly be generated. By tweaking [...]

ECMA What? Harmony Who? TC39? Tamarin? JavaScript!

2008-08-19T07:13:00.001-07:00

Alex Russell has seen the confusion of the many names that were bandied around with the Harmony news last week. There are so many names, that involve specs, projects, and general technical jargon that it can get a little confusing. Alex has made it very clear:

ECMAScript 3
Aka: JavaScript, ES3, ECMAScript 262-3, and JScript.
The current JavaScript [...]

Transformie: Implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE

2008-08-18T22:12:00.001-07:00

Paul Bakaus, or jQuery UI fame, has created a nice little hack to implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE

When you include the library, it can scan for your -webkit-transform-* transforms (soon to support the standard transform-*) and will go to work for you using a couple of nifty technologies all put together:

IE Filters such as [...]

Nice new Dojo aggregate effects

2008-08-18T19:13:00.001-07:00

Dojo has some nice new compound effects in the works. Some of the new effects include block fades, disintergrate, explode, shear, and pinwheel.
Each effect can be tweaked with config such as:

The number of rows and columns in which to split the element
The distance the pieces travel (as a multiple of the element's respective dimensions)
Whether or [...]

A simple solution to the “other” problem with select boxes

2008-08-18T10:13:00.001-07:00

Jeffrey Olchovy has posted a simple tutorial on using jQuery to solve a "select-to-input toggle" that shows and hides a text field when you select "Other". It overloads the same form name, so the server side gets just one value, and doesn't know or care if it was in the drop down or typed in. [...]

Getting a JavaScript stracktrace in any browser

2008-08-18T07:13:00.001-07:00

Eric Wendelin has posted on getting a JavaScript stack trace no matter that the browser.
With Firebug you can call console.trace() but what about the rest?
Luke Smith took Eric's work and added to it, ending up with:
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(function () {

YOUR_NAMESPACE.getStackTrace = (function () {

var mode;

try {(0)()} catch (e) {

mode = e.stack ? 'Firefox' : [...]