Ajaxian is reporting about a very neat and cool bookmarklet, XRay, that helps you visually get information about specific elements on your page. The site best describes its functionality as “a free cross browser tool (a bookmarklet) that lets you… Continue Reading
Tane Piper today released v1.3 of his jQuery mapping plugin with the following major updates: Added support for creating Yahoo! Maps, can create Map, Satallite or Hybrid. Check out available options below Added support for creating points on Yahoo! maps.… Continue Reading
Flash developer Sean Moore has created a very nice Adobe Air cheat sheet. Be sure to get a copy here: AIR Cheatsheets! FREE 7 Page PDF Download!
Adobe has announce their new Ajax Technology Center which introduces new technologies that make building rich internet applications easier and scalable. I've mentioned Adobe Air, their SDK & runtime to take your web apps to the desktop, a number of… Continue Reading
Ajaxian has a great rollup of Adobe Senior Vice President Kevin Lynch's keynote at the Ajax Experience. Some important facts that really stood out were: Adobe's push to standardize the crossdomain.xml file, standard in Flash, at the browser and client… Continue Reading
I've noticed in conversations that a lot developers really do take page size for granted. Their rationale is usually that their target audience uses broadband so there's no need to worry about it. I call that naive thinking. You still… Continue Reading
While reading ValleyWag, I found a post to a VERY cool Web 2.0 map that shows how most of the big players in the space interconnect with each other. Its based on a Tokyo subway map layout and comes in… Continue Reading
While testing the latest copy of CF8 GMC, I looked at the file sizes of the Ajax javascript files and was pleasantly surprised to find the files nicely compressed…all except for the Spry files! I was curious as to why… Continue Reading
If you've used Firebug, you now how useful a tool it can be in helping you debug your JavaScript & Ajax applications. Irregardless of which library you're using for Ajax development, Firebug is a tool everyone should have in their… Continue Reading
Of late, I've seen a growing number of Ajax/DHTML/JS component aggregator sites popping up on the net. The first one that I noticed was MiniAjax. Then I found another one which was even bigger called Ajax Rain. And then tonight,… Continue Reading