A modular AJAX WordPress theme. My vision was to have a fully customisable layout like seen on MyYahoo or NetVibes.com and maybe some neat effects here and there… On my first attempts I failed badly and thought I will never be able to make it, but then I stumbled over the brand-new script.aculo.us Web 2.0 JavaScript.

Website: http://www.bloxpress.org/

After tiring of over hyped ajax frameworks trying to hide the guts that make ajax programming fun I decided to share my recipe for easy to make ajax applications where you still have control over everything, but the setup of it all is handled for you. This is a basic state of mind system rather than a framework. I offer you four files and a design pattern that allows you to focus on making things happen rather than setting things up. This is designed for PHP5 but can be written for php4 if people are interested.

Website: http://litfuel.net/mybic/

Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an “internet desert” – from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm can use almost any web browser and even works through firewalls. Anyterm consists of some Javascript on a web page, an XmlHttpRequest channel on standard ports back to the server, and an Apache module.

Website: http://anyterm.org/

AJAX Extended is a JavaScript class that improves the standard XMLHttpRequest features. The most important enhancement — it breaks the cross-domain policy rules. It is possible to get data from any source, any domain and parse it with your JS scripts. Feel excited? Just keep on reading. AJAX Extended has the same properties, methods and events as the native browser implementation. You don’t have to rewrite your code — just plug in the AJAX Extended and you’re in business.

Website: http://ajaxextended.com/

I’ve seen a few questions about doing pagination with AJAX, and I don’t like the thought of it. It smells of accessibility problems. I’ve addressed this issue before in my own toy pages (since I don’t actually write production web code), so thought I’d share it.

Website: http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/

This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.

Website: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started

This article shows how to use Ajax techniques to make web apps with REST APIs.

Website: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/02/23/using-rest-with-ajax.html

You might have been in a situation before where you had a list of items in your database that needed to be output in a specific order. These items could be anything: perhaps a listing of your favourite movies or your favourite books. For whatever reason, you want them ordered in a custom way that can’t be determined automatically (such as alphabetical). This article covers the implementation of a system that lets you easily define the order of such a list.

Website: http://www.phpriot.com/d/articles/client-side/sortable-lists-with-php-and-ajax/index.html

I’ve been using CSS tabs for many years now and have always wished they had a bit more functionality. AJAX Tabs uses the time tested Sliding Doors method for CSS tabs and implements a very useful AJAX layer. This functionality could add some very dynamic user interaction. Among a few of the features offered are, the ability to specify default open tabs, AJAX preloading, and tab based javascript events. Think of the possibilities. “

BloxPress has created the first completely modular AJAX theme for a popular blog software. Their vision was to create a MyYahoo or NetVibes.com like interface with a blog backend. The user experience is superb with drag and drop modules, RSS, Flickr, etc… You can also add or delete as many modules as you like by simply clicking the Add / Remove Content link under the logo. Reseting to the original default settings is facilitated easily by clicking one link. Hopefully, at some point this type of web 2.0 / AJAX theme will be available for all of the major blogs API’s. “