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Posts Tagged ‘ajax’

Ajax spinner… I hate you.

May 22nd, 2010

It’s time to kill the ajax spinner. It had a good run, but now it’s time to retire it to gif heaven where it belongs, right next to the animated “under construction” and “email me!” gifs of 1994.

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Posted in Javascript, Web Development

Tags: ajax ajax spinner bad crappy data death to the ajax spinner drupal evil horrible i hate you laziness loading pagination poor coding preload previous next shitty stay off the internet desktop developer terrible xhr

Re-introducing Eventageous for PHP

March 3rd, 2010

This is an old project of mine but I decided to remake it bigger, stronger and faster. And it seems, I never actually released it before when I thought I did. I’ve completely rewritten the code and put it up on google code.

So what is it? It is basically a glorified event logger for PHP. Information can be logged to files (and auto-rotated), output to screen, extended with custom events, and even use it with your PHP ajax.

Click through for details.

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Posted in Projects

Tags: ajax commenting debug debugging error log error notifications errors javascript logging notifications PHP

Pegboard Window Manager: A Javascript window manager written with jQuery

November 30th, 2009

Introducing Pegboard: A Javascript Window Manager that is written in Javascript (with a light dusting of jQuery). You can download Pegboard here. Click here to see a quick demo of Pegboard.

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Posted in Javascript, Web Development

Tags: ajax close dhtml dialog manager gpl html windows javascript maximize minimize open source pegboard pegboard window manager taskbar web application windows web os window manager windows

The Overuse of Ajax and How to be a good Ajax developer

November 24th, 2009

New to web design? Old to web design and clueless about the proper Ajax uses? Here is a good rule of thumb: If it doesn’t make your website easier, faster, or smarter to use — ditch it. This includes the majority of that slick Ajax that you are working on right now!

How is Ajax being misused these days? Or better yet, how do you properly use Ajax to make the user-experience on your website better?

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Posted in CSS, Javascript, Web Development

Tags: ajax ajax implementations bad ajax bad idea forms good idea guide to ajax javascript javascript development over use of ajax post submit user experience web 2.0 web applications webapps

clidesdale v1.5 released and available for download

July 9th, 2008

Clidesdale is an ajax development script that helps developers quickly create and deploy dynamic web pages using ajax. Features include offline detection, multiple call options, and a bunch of other stuff.

Version 1.5 is a release that is more symbolic than an actual release. I created clidesdale years ago for use with my personal projects and it has since grown and been refined time and time again.

This version is a halfway point to the yet unstarted version 2.0. Version 2 will be completely rewritten and include much more functionality while keeping everything simple.