Category: Code
Google Visualization API
“The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. Google Visualization API enables you to expose your own data, stored on any data-store that is connected to the web, as a Visualization compliant datasource. Thus you can create reports and dashboards as well as analyze and display your data through the wealth of available visualization applications. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large. “”Visit the Google Visualization API Website
Flapjax – Javascript Framework
Flapjax is a new programming language designed around the demands of modern, client-based Web applications. Its principal features include:rn
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Event-driven, reactive evaluation
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An event-stream abstraction for communicating with web services
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Jiffy Web - Google Code
“Jiffy is an end-to-end real-world web page instrumentation and measurement suite. The first beta was released on 6/23/2008, as announced at O’Reilly Velocity 2008. Jiffy was built and is maintained by the WhitePages.com team.”
Website: http://code.google.com/p/jiffy-web/
Phototype - Image Manipulation with Javascript
“Lately I had same crazy thoughts on coding a javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. I decided to do some test which eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image. With phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images.”
Website: http://ajaxorized.com/phototype-image-manipulation-with-javascript
jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS
“When we first launched the lab, we released a jQuery plugin that automatically preloads all images referenced in CSS files. We’ve found the script to be incredibly helpful in developing snappy applications where images are always ready when we need them. This post describes a significant update to the script which will make it even easier to integrate in existing projects.”
Website: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_automatically_preload_images_from_css_with_jquery/
Creating an Ajax contact form - from start to finish
“In this tutorial I
jQuick - Quick Tag Creator for JQuery
jQuick is a quick tag creator for jQuery written by Francesco Sullo. “During the development of the first releases of PassPack, I adopted Easy DOM Creation by Michael Geary to quickly manage the DOM elements. But, in january, with the beta4 version of PassPack I needed to overcome Michael’s library’s limits (due to the compatibility with Prototype). So I developed jQuick. I hope you find it useful.”
Website: http://jquick.sullof.com/jquick/
Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails
“By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change. I personally prefer jQuery to prototype. I don
AjaxCRUD - Easy Database Connection Class
AjaxCRUD is an open-source PHP API which allows you to connect to a mySQL database and easily perform the necessary CRUD operations (create, read, update, & delete rows). This PHP class allows you to get the access you need without spending the time and energy on lengthy coding.
Website: http://www.ajaxcrud.com/
JavaScriptMVC - Open Source Javascript Framework
JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.
Website: http://javascriptmvc.com/index.html