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TurboDbAdmin. Ajax phpMyAdmin clone built on Dojo. Worth trying the live demo.

# 4th November 2005, 3:27 pm / ajax, dojo, javascript, mysql, phpmyadmin

Yahoo!’s new twist on mapping APIs

One of the most exciting things I’ve seen at Yahoo! since starting here has finally been made public: the new Yahoo Maps. The map application itself differs from many other recent map sites in being rendered entirely in Flash. This leaves far more scope for interface niceties, but doesn’t it reduce the scope for hacking that made things like Google Maps so much fun?

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Why the term Ajax is useful

Software design patterns are useful mainly because they provide a shared vocabulary: rather than discussing the intimate details of a three layered application architecture, we say “MVC”. Rather than describing an object that tracks your progress while looping over a collection, we say “Iterator”.

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Ajax forest, Remote Scripting trees. Brent Ashley, father of the JSRS library, kicks in on Ajax.

# 30th March 2005, 7:19 pm / ajax, javascript, brent-ashley