Archive for 'AJAX'
Update
Ok, so here’s where I’m at. I’m over Rails, done with it, caput. It’s got the greatest ideas, but the implementation is lacking. Many of the most common ideas are easy to implement elsewhere (Like PHP’s Adodb Active Record as one example). So my interests have floated back to PHP. I’m still a big JavaScript […]
No Part 3 today
No Part 3 on the XulRunner tutorial today. Sorry everybody, just got busy with work. I’ll push for it tomorrow.
Culled from the Web
I saw this, VoiceTronix.
The OpenPCI series is our new entry level CT hardware platform offering four (4) and eight (8) Loop-Start (FXO) or Station (FXS) ports on a PCI 2.2 bus interface running on Linux.
With Asterisk compatability, and coming soon, FreeBSD support. Nice.
IBM’s new Ajax Toolkit for Eclipse requires XulRunner.
Interested in Firefox […]
XulRunner and Rails Tutorial, Part 2: Connecting the Two
Read Parts: One
Two
Today we’re going to Connect Rails to our new XulRunner app. Sounds easy enough, right?
Well….
Let’s start on the Xul side of it. All this XmlHttpRequest stuff is crap. And Ajax is Ajax+J.
Under the xul/content directory, let’s create a new one called “js” to store all of our javascript in, and let’s create another […]
Xul(Runner) and Rails Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction and Setup
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Two
Please Note: I’m not the first to do this. Check out that app, very nifty.
But now I’m going to give it a go.
For this demo app, we’re going to create a simple online forum based in XUL with a Rails backend.
First up, gotta boot up RadRails and start a new project, and we’ll […]
Exciting Stuff happening
Ok, so I’ve been out of the loop for awhile. Sorry, been very busy, but back for now.
First Off, Firefox RC1 is out and available. Complete with SVG, JS 1.6, CSS 2 and 3 and lots of other cool stuff.
Some other cool stuff, from Devmo: Info on the Canvas Project(Awesome).
There’s great info on […]
Doing some AJAX and JSON(Examples included!)
So I decided to beef up Haunted House Nation with some minor Ajax and JSON support. Most AJAX I’ve done has been XML-RPC based via JS O’ Lait going so far as to use it in some of my XUL apps. But HHN is cross-platform, meaning IE and Moz, so I looked to find some […]
Haunted House Nation
Haunted House Nation is growing like crazy now. Woo hoo! =) I plan on doing another one, veggiemap.org for Vegan/Vegetarian restaurants around the country to help people when they’re traveling. But it’ll be a few days before I can get it going all the way. I wanna make some changed to Haunted House Nation first(leave […]
HauntedHouseNation.com
I’m taking dallashalloween.com national. The new address is hauntedhousenation.com. All existing submissions will remain, and I’m working no getting the system set up to do Haunted Houses within 20 mi. from my location, etc… Gotta get the software updated, but soon!
DallasHalloween.com Haunted House List
The Dallas Halloween Haunted House List is up for 2005, and it’s using Google Maps beautifully. Still a few bugs here and there, but it’s looking great and working great. Check it out, and if you have any additions, let me know.
Playing with the Google Maps API
On my Other Blog I’ve been playing with the Google Maps API. It’s very cool, and I wonder how much XUL integration it can handle? Check it out, it’s a small example now, but I’m expanding on it.
Software Integration and OSS
I’m a big believer in Software Integration, especially in OSS software. I’ve never understood why most OSS programmers haven’t gone to that logical next step to create software integration paths. For example, if I send an email to somebody through Thunderbird, I should be able to see if they are online or not via one […]
Still Working on The Tutorial
Sorry I’ve been pretty busy with work and travel. My sister is getting married this weekend so I will be out of town again. But as soon as I have some spare time, I will get back to the tutorial. I gotta go, I’m having some friends over for drinks.
Common Ajax Mistakes
I found a good post on another blog about common Ajax mistakes, check it out here. Much of it applies to Xul.
Ajax
Ajax is an old technology with a new name, meaning asynchronous JavaScript and XML. XUL uses Ajax almost exclusively, as well the Firefox browser is completely programmed in JavaScript, although not necessarily Ajax. Mozilla programming not only lets you create rich applications but helps you learn advanced JavaScript that you can then apply to web […]
Creating a Firefox Toolbar Tutorial
Ok, I’ve needed to do this for quite some time.
I’m gonna go through the Firefox Toolbar Tutorial and post my results and progress here. I’m telling you now, it won’t be something I release to the public, it will be for demonstration purposes only(well, only to the public, it’ll be of good internal use […]
Konfabulator
Konfabulator has been aquired by Yahoo!. This is just another example of tech breaking out of it’s old confines. Checking out Konfabulator, it’s very cool. I want something like this for web stats and CRM stats for my current employers. They’d love it actually. This has been mentioned on many other blogs.
In fact, the new […]
ADOdb Lite, Parrot, and Browser Extensions
The author of ADOdb has made his comments on ADOdb Lite. I tend to agree, and 640kb is not very much these days. I say just plug in eAccelerator and you’re good to go. There’s so much shared memory between apache these days too, it really doesn’t matter. Although something like mod_perl for PHP would […]
XulRunner, JS, and More Moz News
Here’s some good reading from Brendan on mozillazine’s weblogs.
I’ve never known how great javascript is until just recently. Although, a little too verbose doing XUL Apps, example:
var blah = document.getElementById(”radiogroup_1″);
var bleck = document.getElementById(”radiogroup_1_bleck”);
blah.selectedItem = bleck;
3 lines for something that could be one step. But hey, it does leave a lot of configurability in there […]
XUL/Ajax Roundup
Check out this Firefox Extension for Tabs: Tabbrowser Extensions - outsider reflex (Hat tip to floating space) Looks great, but there is a tradeoff to consider. It’s not very compatible with other extensions. Even the Mozilla Foudnation says not to install it. The next version of Firefox will have a lot of new tabbing features. […]