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ExtInfoWindow 1.0: Ajax powered, CSS customization. Finally, a semi-official way of creating customised info windows for the Google Maps API. You lose the default shadow but gain the ability to style the entire info window using CSS.

# 15th December 2007, 12:22 pm / ajax, css, extinfowindow, google, google-maps, google-maps-api, javascript

Two-Faced Django. Excellent Django tutorial by Will Larson that shows how to build a polling application with an interface both on the Web and in Facebook. Also touches on unit testing and Ajax using jQuery.

# 14th December 2007, 2:44 pm / ajax, django, facebook, javascript, jquery, pyfacebook, python, tutorial

The Future of Comet: Part 1, Comet Today. Absolutely the best summary I’ve seen of all of the current Comet techniques in one place.

# 11th December 2007, 1:13 pm / ajax, comet, iframes, jacob-rus, javascript, long-polling, xmlhttprequest

Ten New Things in WebKit 3. Does “incremental updates for persistent server connections” for XMLHttpRequest mean Safari now has native support for Comet?

# 16th November 2007, 1:19 am / ajax, comet, javascript, safari, safari3, webkit, xmlhttprequest

google-axsjax (via) “The AxsJAX framework can inject accessibility enhancements into existing Web 2.0 applications using any of several standard Web techniques”—including bookmarklets and Greasemonkey. The enhancements conform to W3C ARIA, supported by Firefox 2.0 and later.

# 14th November 2007, 5:18 pm / accessibility, ajax, aria, axsjax, bookmarklets, firefox, google, greasemonkey, javascript, w3c

Comet Daily. New regularly updated site covering Comet, the Ajax-like umbrella term for JavaScript server-push techniques. Already a bunch of great stuff on there.

# 7th November 2007, 10:53 am / ajax, comet, cometdaily, javascript

How to make Ajax work for you. Slides from my three hour Ajax tutorial, presented at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin on Monday.

# 7th November 2007, 10:35 am / ajax, javascript, speaking, my-talks, tutorial, web2expoberlin

Bust A Name. Smart Ajax powered domain search; you give it some words, it shows you available combinations. It’s still almost impossible to find something that doesn’t suck though.

# 20th August 2007, 3:40 pm / ajax, bustaname, domains, rails

SproutCore (via) MVC JavaScript framework used to build the new .Mac Web Gallery application.

# 7th August 2007, 11:35 pm / ajax, apple, bill-humphries, dotmac, javascript, mvc

The Geni “contact us” form. As you type your message, Geni pulls in likely entries from their FAQ using Ajax—with pretty decent results.

# 3rd July 2007, 9 pm / ajax, faq, geni

jQuery Taconite Plugin. Lets you serialize jQuery DOM manipulation commands as an XML document for retrieval via Ajax.

# 2nd July 2007, 6:29 pm / ajax, javascript, jquery, plugins, taconite

The sliding scale. Jeremy’s write-up of my panel at the Web 2.0 Expo, with illustrative photograph.

# 25th April 2007, 7:09 pm / ajax, javascript, jeremy-keith, speaking, web2expo

Death and Taxes (via) Beautiful massive zoomable/pannable infographic of the 2008 Federal Discretionary Budget.

# 19th April 2007, 2:37 am / ajax, infographic, javascript, politics

Google AJAX Feed API (via) Simple cross-domain proxy to allow JavaScript to access any publically addressable syndication feed, with the same logic as Google Reader providing normalisation.

# 18th April 2007, 5:29 pm / ajax, atom, crossdomain, feed, google, google-reader, javascript, rss, syndication

Flash vs. Ajax: It’s time to expand your toolbox. Dan Webb offers his smart, pragmatic take on the Flash vs. Ajax permathread.

# 20th March 2007, 9:49 am / ajax, dan-webb, flash, flex

Ajax3d Demo. Really impressive Virus clone, using the canvas element.

# 9th March 2007, 7 pm / 3d, ajax, ajax3d, canvas, javascript

John Resig: Thoughts on OpenAjax. I hadn’t looked in to OpenAjax—from John’s analysis it seems like they need to make it easier for open-source projects to participate and do a bunch of work to modernise their core library.

# 22nd February 2007, 10:20 pm / ajax, javascript, john-resig, jquery, openajax

Which is the real explanation of where the name XMLHTTP comes from- the thing is mostly about HTTP and doesn't have any specific tie to XML other than that was the easiest excuse for shipping it so I needed to cram XML into the name (plus- XML was the hot technology at the time and it seemed like some good marketing for the component).

Alex Hopmann

# 24th January 2007, 8:48 pm / ajax, marketing, xml, xmlhttprequest

AJAX Debugging with Firebug. Great Firebug tutorial from creator Joe Hewitt himself. I didn’t know you could trigger profiling from your own code using console.profile() / console.profileEnd().

# 12th January 2007, 11:21 am / ajax, drdobbs, firebug, javascript, joe-hewitt, tutorial

macrumorslive.com. The MacRumors ajax keynote coverage gets better every time—now they have live photos in addition to the text updates. Simple but effective.

# 9th January 2007, 5:11 pm / ajax, apple, javascript, keynote, macrumors, osx, simplicity, steve-jobs