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jParallax Turns Elements into a Viewport

Blogs - 1 day 7 hours ago

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 read more

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Putting together GWT and Spring

Blogs - 2 days ago

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 cre read more

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Razor Profiler: Check out your Ajax code

Blogs - 2 days ago

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 ha read more

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Want a Free Pass to The Ajax Experience?

Blogs - 2 days ago

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 pa read more

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ImageInfo: reading image metadata (EXIF) with JavaScript

Blogs - 2 days ago

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 read more

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Sizzle: John Resig has a new selector engine

Blogs - 2 days ago

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 - an read more

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AJAXWorld RIA Conference - Speaker Mike Girouard's JavaScript Design Patterns, #2

News - 3 days ago

Load time configuration is the process where a JavaScript application configures itself as it is being loaded. This pattern is most commonly found in libraries in which they configure themselves at load time to be optimized for a particular browser. Load time configuration is also known as load tim read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Attracts Top Faculty

News - 3 days ago

RIAs offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is currently still open, specifically encourage read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo - The UX Meme Is Reaching the Enterprise at Last

News - 4 days ago

In SYS-CON's annual round-up of technology predictions earlier this year, Brad Abrams, a Group Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighted the likelihood of what he called 'the UX meme of the consumer facing world [leaking] into the enterprise' and noted: 'The days of the battleship gray, forms of da read more

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How Do I: Determine Whether to Use a Web Site or a Web Application Project

Videos - 5 days ago

In this video Chris Pels will contrast the differences between an ASP.NET web site project and a web application project. Learn the considerations for using one type of project or the other. First, learn about the major attributes of a web application project including its folder basis. Next, see t read more

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