Book Review: Advanced Ajax by Shawn M. Lauriat
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Tuesday, August 26, 2008
It’s not often that I review a book that is a year old for several reasons. The main reason is that technology changes so fast. In this day and age a book 12 months old usually contains out dated information. As with any good rule, there are exemptions, this book is one of them.
Porting PHP to JavaScript
by Cal Evans (editor) |
7 comments | Thursday, January 3, 2008
Kevin van Zonneveld has a great series of posts and JavaScript code snippets that give you JavaScript equivalents of some of his favorite PHP. The good news is there is some useful code here, the bad news is that the JavaScript code doesn’t support namespaces.
30 Minutes with Active Media Architects
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Flash and PHP are becoming a popular pair of technologies. It seems that every time I turn around, I'm seeing new Flash front-ends that are talking to PHP back-ends and doing some very interesting things. One of the most interesting things I've seen though has to be MyKleenexTissue.com. I was given the opportunity to sit down and talk with Andy Lintner, Director of Application Development, Jon Aniano, General Manager, and Jeff Kazmierski, President and Creative Director; all of Active Media Architects, the team behind MyKleenexTissue.com. Along the way we talked about the technology decisions they made, and the process they used for development.
Ajax Chat Tutorial
by maugrim |
3 comments | Monday, January 15, 2007
Creating a chat application is not a difficult task. Honest! This tutorial is a step by step introduction to creating a lightweight chat application using XML as a storage medium. As personal motivation, I develop PHP games as a hobby. In pursuit of that hobby I’ve found that offering a flat threadless forum in such games tends to result in heavy usage as players attempt to use it as a chat room. The reason is that even with the advent of irc and instant messengers, users continue see an alternative web based solution as attractive for a number of reasons whether its limited access to instant messengers through a corporate proxy or simply for convenience sake.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 7 : Usability Improvements
by maugrim |
2 comments | Monday, January 15, 2007
The final part of our 7 part tutorial on creating an ajax chat system using MySQL and the Zend Framework.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 5: The Javascript, Sending Chat Messages, Screen Name Changes
by maugrim |
5 comments | Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Part 5 of our 7 part tutorial on creating an Ajax based Chat application.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 4: IndexController MessageAction() and JSON Encoding
by maugrim |
1 comment | Monday, December 18, 2006
In part 4 of this tutorial we take a look at adding a new MessageAction method to our current Controller. This will expect one piece of information: a new chat message.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 3:Storage Medium, XML and the Message Process
by maugrim |
0 comments | Monday, December 4, 2006
As our chat application gathers pace we return to the server side of the application. At this point we have setup the Zend Framework with an IndexController class to handle server requests. After the initial loading of our HTML interface, we will expect all further server requests to be issued via AJAX (courtesy of Prototype and the XMLHttpRequest object) on the client side. We’ll see this in Part 5.
Asynchronous File Upload from anyexample.com
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Monday, December 4, 2006
This weekend I found an interesting article over at anyexamples.com on using AJAX and PHP to do asynchronous file uploads. Click on inside and I’ll give you the details.
AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 2:Prototype, Scriptaculous, Application HTML
by maugrim |
1 comment | Monday, November 27, 2006
In this week’s installment, we setup the HTML and JavaScript for our AJAX Chat application.
