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.
Web2.0 is the common name for the ‘next generation’ of web-based products, services and businesses that leverage the platform independence and ubiquity of the Internet. Some would put more restriction on the definition referring to browser plug-ins like Macromedia Flash or specific web technologies like Ajax, but Web 2.0 is a concept that is independent of the technology it is built upon the same way that e-commerce is not a Java, PHP or Ruby dependant product.
If you’re looking for the leading edge of Internet programming, think about Web 2.0 products and services.
ProgrammableWeb.com has (beta) list of Web2.0 applications you can use right now.
Still interested in Web2.0? You’ll want to check out the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference
Petefreitag.com has a collection of cheat sheets for a variety of technologies. Split into 5 main categories - web, languages, database, version control and other. There are over 30 cheatsheets on languages like Java, JSP, Perl and Ruby. Web technologies like XHTML, CSS and JavaScript each have cheatsheets as well. The other category has cheatsheets for Linix, Vi, Google, mod_rewrite, htaccess, and windows commands among others.
Check them all out at http://www.petefreitag.com/item/455.cfm
link - O’Reilly Radar
You know they’re mainstream when Donald Trump has blog a in the top links list at bloglines.com
(#13).
RSS on the other hand - while available with almost all blog software, is not mainstream even within the blogging community. A study by the Neilson Group shows that out of 1000 members of their research panel who are blog readers; 66% of the blog readers have never heard of RSS, and only 11% of the blog readers use it.
link - O’Reilly Radar
Like Flickr.com, you can create a free profile and upload media. In this case it’s short video clips instead of images. Like flickr, they use flash to display the media, making it more difficult to copy off of their site. They also include features like links, and RSS feeds.
Simple, straight forward Flash movie player interface is a major plus.
For example,
office sports
extreme 747 landing
Links like this make me wonder how long they can go without a lawsuit…
Family Guy Season 4, episode 8
A detailed list of new functionality that will ship with Flash 8 including BitMap API, Filter API, Text Rendering, Post Processing and External API.
link - flashmagazine.com
Update your operating system, Flash 8 is not going to support Windows 95, NT or classic Macintosh.
Tons of Macromedia Flash 8 and Studio 8 articles.
link - casario.blogs.com
Check out Ripple - a Framework designed to help structure your Flash site so that it may be deep linked and indexed by search engines.
Developing in Actionscript? Don’t do it in Flash. Try the MTASC plug-in for Eclipse
Find other Open Source Flash projects at OSFlash.org.
thanks peterjoel.com
As expected, Macromedia Studio 8 was announced today.
Macromedia employees are already writing about how to make use of its improvements.
Macromedia working on the next generation actionscript editor codenamed Zorn. They’re asking for your ideas. I’ve put in my 2 cents. You should to.
Add View Source to your Flash and Flex applications
I’m thinking of buying a new hard drive. It time for me to learn how to reinstall windows without losing your data.
IE7 (beta) isn’t fully CSS complient. They’re fixing bugs, but it looks like IE7 still won’t be fully CSS complient before it ships.
Opera says they’ll pass the W3C Acid Test. Opera also says that their next version will stop spoofing user agent as IE. This should give a more accurate distribution in most sites web statistics.
I am a fan of movie trailers. That sounds a little odd to some people, but I really enjoy the anticipation I get from watching a good trailer. One of my favorite sites to check out trailers is apple trailers. They have a good, up to date selection of trailers all viewable in quicktime. The downside is that they don’t have an RSS feed. So I made one.
I built a screen scraper that parses the site and looks for all of their latest releases and outputs it into rss, then uploads it to polymercode.com. The feed is very much in Beta, so don’t be surprised if it isn’t readable by your RSS reader. Also - I am going to schedule the reader to scrape the trailers web site only a couple times a day - so don’t be surprised if the feed it slightly out of date with what is actually on the site.
I would appreciate your comments, and any errors you find. I’m going to release the source code for the application once it’s stablized and production ready - so keep checking back if you’re interested.
In my spare time I’ve been working on a project for PolymerCode. I’ve been building a Rich Internet Application in Flash MX 2004 with ActionScript 2.0. I’ll post some more details about it when it’s closer to completion.
In the first weeks of development I’ve already encountered a number of shortcomings of the ActionScript 2.0 API. One thing that I’ve found annoying is the richness of the designer tools available, compared to the tools available via the ActionScript API. For example, to draw a dashed line with the drawing tools, you simply draw a line, and set the line type to dashed. In ActionScript there is the MovieClip.lineTo() which does not support dashed line types.
Convinced there was a better solution, I asked the all-knowing Google the way to enlightenment. Lucky for me, someone wrote a solution. Ric Ewing wrote Advanced drawing methods in Macromedia Flash MX. Unfortunately, he and his colleagues at Macromedia wrote the solutions back in 2002, in ActionScript 1.0. To use it I’ve had to update it to ActionScript 2.0. Much of the code is the same, with only a couple of tweaks.
Since Ric offered up this code for use, I think it’s only right that I do the same. I have provided the code in two flavours. One is in the form of a helper class that any AS2.0 class can call to draw a shape on any MovieClip. The second is an extension to the MovieClip class. All of the examples below use the helper class. To use the MovieClip implementation simply subclass it, and write whatever code you need. The attach it to am item in your library selecting ‘linkage’ then checking ‘Export for ActionScript’, and typing your class into the “AS 2.0 Class” text box. I’ll post an example application of this implementation soon.
I offer the following code without warranty explicit or implied. They are presented as is, and in the words of Ric Ewing,
“Some are useful, others whimsical, but all of them are free to use as you see fit. They are free of charge or obligation. I have endeavoured to make these methods robust and useful, however I can make no guarantees about their suitability to your specific needs. I similarly make no guarantees that they are bug or problem free”
Feel free to download the source code for all the examples below.
You will need the latest Macromedia Flash Player to view the demos below.
Download it now
The other day I was surfing around for a Java API when I came upon an interesting paper written by Donald Gordon - a former(?) student of Victoria University of Wellington. Donald wrote the paper as partial requirements for graduating Computer Science with honours.
A Framework for Lightweight Web-based Visual Applications [pdf] takes an interesting approach to the development of rich internet applications. Like the Java Server Faces specification, it controls very complex, dynamic user interfaces entirely on the server. In theory this reduces the complexity providing multibrowser support, and does not require the user to download or install any plugins. By eliminating the need for plugins, you eliminate having to worry about plugin versioning issues or programming API limitations that authors of applications written in Flash or Java Applets have to consider.
Sadly, all I could find is this paper. I haven’t found any other documentation, nor have I been able to find any downloadable implementations or even examples. I think that technology like this has great potential. I hope to see more of it soon.
This movie [mpg] from Sony Japan shows some remarkably innovative technology at play. The user dynamically builds their interface with a number of tiles. Each tile looks to be about the size of a CD. They build their interface by selecting the tile of their choice, and placing it on a grid interface where the tile comes alive. I’m not sure this application is something I would use, but I like the idea. I’m sure there are many potential uses.
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