Using AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content
Published November 2nd, 2009 Under AJAX, Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the code behind Vast Rank’s “Ranking Map” that provides contextual College Rankings based on what a user has in view on his or her Map. Code examples will be shown utilizing the Google Maps API, the Google Maps Marker Manager, the Google Client Geocoder, and the Google Client Location information exposed by the AJAX API loader. The session will end by discussing future plans to incorporate additional Google APIs including the Translation API to translate international content, the Languages API to utilize jQuery, and the Google AJAX Search API to improve the user’s search experience.
Progressively Enhance AJAX Applications with Google Web Toolkit and GQuery
Published October 5th, 2009 Under AJAX, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Don’t throw away your Web 1.0 websites just yet. In this session, you’ll learn how to take your existing websites, and layer AJAX on top of them using GQuery, a jQuery style library for GWT. Learn how GQuery benefits performance over existing solutions, increases productivity, and reduces defects by leveraging the GWT tool chain.
Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit
Published September 24th, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
This short screencast gives a quick review of the FireUnit Firefox Firebug Add-on and also the QUnit Unit Testing framework for jQuery.
Source code and tutorial for this screencast
Railscasts – AJAX History and Bookmarks
Published August 20th, 2009 Under AJAX, Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin.
http://railscasts.com/episodes/175-ajax-history-and-bookmarks
Ajax File Uploads Made Easy
Published June 17th, 2009 Under AJAX, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
This tutorial talks about Ajax file uploads in Rails using jQuery.
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