Found this excellent application of AJAX. It’s an AJAX MySQL Designer application. It has intuitive design tools; comprehensive types and allows import/export of your designs for MySQL as well as XML generation and SQL generation.
well done.
The ServerSide (TSS) has a couple of posts on using AJAX.
For those of us new to AJAX - the first post links to a great step-by-step AJAX example. In the example, link descriptions are loaded via AJAX on mouse over.
The example itself may not be a good idea from a web design or search engine optimization perspective. Regardless, it is a great starting point for beginners to build a working model.
For more advanced AJAX programmers, TSS has another post linking to a whitepaper from BackBase. [pdf] Mostly promotional material that I think may provide inspiration.
Open Source News
It’s raining code (Hallelujah?) - why open source is good for CIOs.
On a related note - Sun VP of technology Jonathan Swartz recently blasted the GPL. Slashdot has a good discussion regarding Jonathan’s point of view.
New Sites of Interest
O’Reilly launched Code Zoo a neat, new code repository/search engine.
Asynchronous browser communication
Using XML and JavaScript. It’s the same technology makes Gmail so slick - AJAX + Struts online how-to tutorial < drool />
Pure Java Servlet implementation example without Struts.
Rapid Web Development/Prototyping
Lately there has been a some talk about Rapid Web App development/prototyping using Ruby and Rails - Ruby+Rails vs Java+Spring+Hibernate analysis test - the results are all red.
Web Design
Javascript events in Flash - now for Mac
Web Statistics
The problem: many web stats programs use cookies to identify returning users but a large number of people regularly delete their cookies. Want a ‘better’ way? use flash to track return visitors
Content Management
CMS interoperability - talks about the lack of standard, and a little on the direction the community is going.
One the lighter side…
Sur-real life Rocky Balboa. It’s amazing what some people will get away with because they look crazy.
Applying mathematics to sports - How to determine the true NBA MVP?
- The true MVP is the player that adds most value to their team in the category that has the most meaning - Wins.
