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Ajax Seminar : Part 4

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Good talk by Bill Scott of Yahoo! (and previously Rico), cataloguing useability patterns in great detail. Too much to go into detail of them all here, but a few useful phrases stuck in my mind.
Just-in-time data - asynchronously fetching extra info
Just-in-time presentation - asynchronously fetching extra UI
Just-in-time logic - asynchronously fetching extra script
He also […]

Ajax Seminar : Part 3

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Sahil Malik talking about Telerik’s product for ASP.Net, that solves a problem in an interesting way. ASP.Net componentsare built very much around the classic web model. Their Panel component fools any controls inside it into thinking they’re running in classic mode, but in fact only the panel gets refreshed when a post-back occurs.
So old-style […]

Ajax Seminar: Part 2

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Interesting talk from Scott Dietzen (Zimbra) and Adam Peller (IBM/Eclipse). The Eclipse tools look very nice, in particular - bringing embedded Firefox, a DOM inspector, debugger and HTTP monitor into the fold. Debugging the client and server code from the same debugger is especially nice.
CXurrently, it supports JS for Zimbra, Dojo and Rico, but apparently […]

Ajax Seminar : Part 1

Monday, March 13th, 2006

I’m in New York today at the Ajax Seminar being run by Sys-Con. Being a geek, one of the most exciting things about the hotel is the lifts of course - glass tubes facing outwards across a vast atrium that looks like something out of Star Wars. Anyway, I had a good play on them […]

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