I had the pleasure of chatting with Andre Lewis, lead author of “Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax”. We talked about his fascinating array of cool Rails-driven online services and projects he’s spearheading, the new book, and tips for budding Rails developers.
Apress author Jeffrey Sambells (Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax) has penned a truly excellent article introducing the “A” in Ajax. Great writing, great examples. Definitely worth a read.
Like many developers actively building websites, I’ve spent a fair amount of time evaluating the various Ajax frameworks. For those of you who haven’t yet done so, or remain too mortified of JavaScript to consider using Ajax, I’ve written up a summary of various frameworks for TechTarget.
I particularly encourage those of you falling into the latter category to check out the article and review the examples, as you’ll see that many of these frameworks require minimal interaction with the language we love to hate:
I am between computers quite a bit, so using an application based RSS reader isn’t something easily done for me. With Pageflakes, I can set everything up, categorize with different pages, and access it from any computer I happen to be on. Very cool tool.
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