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An Open XDrive Usage Meter Dashboard Widget
While it’s been hard not to notice the iPhone in all of its fan fare – you may not be as aware of the vibrant native iPhone application development that has blasted off - in literally the past few weeks. As an early iPhone adopter (yes I’m one of the crazy people that stood in line at the local AT&T store for over 6 hours on launch day!), and developer, I’ve been closely monitoring the iPhone development scene. Two of the major iPhone knocks have been the lack of a native messaging application, and no official Apple supported development API or framework. The only iPhone development officially supported by Apple is web-based applications. There is a web-based messaging client available in JiveTalk, by BeeJive. While it’s a great Web 2.0 messaging client – optimized for the iPhone – I’m always nervous about giving out usernames and passwords to a third party web site – especially for things like my AIM account.
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AJAX Related Articles
Using Dojo and JSON to Build Ajax Applications
by Zarar Siddiqi
Nov 3, 2006
"Ajax" is a buzzword that is gaining momentum and popularity. Applications such as Gmail and Google Suggest serve as massive advertisements for asynchronous JavaScript. As users gain familiarity and their expectations increase, the demand for such interfaces is rising. More...RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader
by Paul Sobocinski
Nov 3, 2006
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) are two technologies that have taken the Web by storm. Most commonly, RSS is used to provide news to either people or other organizations. This is done by serving an "RSS feed" from a website. An RSS feed is simply a link to an XML file that is structured in a certain way. The RSS specification tells us the expected structure of the XML file. For example, the title, author, and description tags are required, and so all RSS XML files will have at least these three tags. More...Building a Simple AOL Video Search API Application Using Ajax
by Paul Sobocinski
Jan 16, 2007
Why send visitors away from your site in search of videos when you can provide them with the ability to simultaneously search YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo!, AOL Video, and others, right on your own site? The AOL Video Search API provides this capability. In this article, Paul Sobocinski introduces the API and demonstrates how to develop a basic video search web page using HTML and Javascript. More...Using REST with Ajax
by Nic Ferrier
Jan 26, 2007
The RESTful view of the Web says to use HTTP's verbs--GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE--where appropriate. Yet most browsers support only GET and POST. How can you achieve RESTfulness without writing your own client? Nic Ferrier shows how to design a RESTful web application using Ajax and Python. More...An AJAX Caching Strategy
by Bruce Perry
Jan 27, 2007
Bruce Perry returns with another AJAX hack; this time he shows us how to use HTTP caching to support an AJAX-enabled web client. More...Ajax: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons
by Brad Neuberg
Jan 26, 2007
The clever in-page dynamics of AJAX make for richer web applications, but they don't necessarily tolerate the use of bookmarks or the browser's back and forward buttons particularly well. In this article, Brad Neuberg shows off a new framework that brings bookmarking and back-button awareness to AJAX. More...Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX
by Bruce Wallace
Jan 27, 2007
Weak JavaScript environments offer the AJAX developer little protection from concurrency dangers, such as one thread modifying the DOM while another reads it. Bruce Wallace offers a mutual exclusion implementation for JavaScript. More...Log4Ajax
by Eric Spiegelberg
Jan 27, 2007
AJAX developers, like all client-side JavaScripters, know that alert is their friend at development time, but as a logging tool, it's severely limited. Eric Spiegelberg offers more robust ideas for logging on the client side and logging from the client to the server. More...Drag and Drop Ajax Programming with Atlas
by Jesse Liberty
Jan 30, 2007
Think you need to write scripts and use JavaScript if you want to write Atlas apps? Think again. Jesse Liberty shows you an easier, more effective, and more productive way--using drag-and-drop programming. More...Developing AJAX Applications the Easy Way
by Joe Walker
Jan 30, 2007
AJAX is all the rage, but who wants to write all that JavaScript code to mess with DOMs, XMLHttpRequest, etc.? With Direct Web Remoting (DWR), you don't have to. Joe Walker shows how this java.net project provides solutions for developing both the server- and client-side pieces of an AJAX web application. More...-
Mashup Case Study: Extending the Capabilities of an AJAX RSS Reader
by Paul Sobocinski
Feb 7, 2007
Take one RSS feed, husk the XML, and add parsing. Pour the contents into the AOL Video Search API, and bake for 0.65 seconds. What do you get? A richer, video spiced news experience! Paul Sobocinski shows us how. More...
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