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20 Trusted AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Tool Sites
I started posting about AJAX shortly after the term was coined by AdaptivePath's Jesse James Garrett in 2005, and in the beginning most of the examples, tutorials and references were produced by programers interested in the subject. Today many of the so-called AJAX, DHTML and Javascript sites are splogs, or other types of traffic generating ad platforms. My question is always who can I trust for tested quality scripts and tools? While there are probubly hundreds of trustworthy sites out there these are the ones I go to when I'm looking for ideas and inspiration. This is not the definitive list of trusted sites so if you have a site you trust for AJAX, DHTML and Javascript tool please let myself and the community know of them through the comments section of this post. Thanks to all of the individuals who spent their free time to put up these wonderful resources.
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Tags: examples, tutorials, downloadable, resources, ajax
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
I started posting about AJAX shortly after the term was coined by AdaptivePath's Jesse James Garrett in 2005, and in the beginning most of the examples, tutorials and references were produced by programers interested in the subject. Today many of the so-called AJAX, DHTML and Javascript sites are splogs, or other types of traffic generating ad platforms. My question is always who can I trust for tested quality scripts and tools? While there are probubly hundreds of trustworthy sites out there these are the ones I go to when I'm looking for ideas and inspiration. This is not the definitive list of trusted sites so if you have a site you trust for AJAX, DHTML and Javascript tool please let myself and the community know of them through the comments section of this post. Thanks to all of the individuals who spent their free time to put up these wonderful resources.
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Tags: examples, tutorials, downloadable, resources, ajax
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Data Visualization Software, Resources, Tutorials and Source Code
As an interaction designer I'm always wondering what's next. Over the last few years we've become familiar with web application design, new constructs like recency and popularity, however, in the back-channel of web design there has been an increasing movement towards data visualizations, both large and small. You can currently see this in everything from blog design to large-scale data visualizations like We Feel Fine and digg labs. Designers and programers are coming together in new ways, which in the end result are producing some of the most functional, and creative web interfaces I've ever seen.
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Tags: examples, visualizations, source code, tutorials, data visualizations, downloadable, web apps, design, resources
Monday, February 26, 2007
As an interaction designer I'm always wondering what's next. Over the last few years we've become familiar with web application design, new constructs like recency and popularity, however, in the back-channel of web design there has been an increasing movement towards data visualizations, both large and small. You can currently see this in everything from blog design to large-scale data visualizations like We Feel Fine and digg labs. Designers and programers are coming together in new ways, which in the end result are producing some of the most functional, and creative web interfaces I've ever seen.
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Tags: examples, visualizations, source code, tutorials, data visualizations, downloadable, web apps, design, resources
Monday, February 26, 2007
Source Code Released for aPop and footoo AJAX Photo Galleries
First, I'd like to say thanks for the overwhelming support and requests for the aPop and footoo photo galleries source code. Next, I'd like to apologize for not getting back to the wonderful developers who emailed me for the code. I just found out this weekend that due to an error, my server was treating all of these emails as spam, and they have been sitting in a log file for the past year. I'm very sorry about this. So, tonight I'm releasing the source code and am hoping I can reach out to everyone who was kind enough to want to push the development forward on these two unfinished projects.
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Tags: examples, source code, downloadable, galleries, photography, ajax
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
First, I'd like to say thanks for the overwhelming support and requests for the aPop and footoo photo galleries source code. Next, I'd like to apologize for not getting back to the wonderful developers who emailed me for the code. I just found out this weekend that due to an error, my server was treating all of these emails as spam, and they have been sitting in a log file for the past year. I'm very sorry about this. So, tonight I'm releasing the source code and am hoping I can reach out to everyone who was kind enough to want to push the development forward on these two unfinished projects.
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Tags: examples, source code, downloadable, galleries, photography, ajax
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Ecosystem Navigation and Tiny Visualizations
It's not AJAX, DHTML, Java, or Ruby but it is a new way of seeing blog categories. Tonight I'm presenting the first in a series of tiny blog visualizations. If you look in the top right corner of my new home page you'll see a clickable pie chart of my current blog categories presented by popularity. Why tiny visualizations? In the last year I've been impressed by the number and quality of large scale data visualizations. Sites like Digg Labs, We Feel Fine and Gapminder all present a new flow and discovery model for data. However, in these examples the visualization is based on a very large data set. Recently, I've become increasingly interested in the idea of tiny visualizations and how this notion can be used as a way to navigate blogs and other micro communities.
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Tags: visualizations, data visualizations
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
It's not AJAX, DHTML, Java, or Ruby but it is a new way of seeing blog categories. Tonight I'm presenting the first in a series of tiny blog visualizations. If you look in the top right corner of my new home page you'll see a clickable pie chart of my current blog categories presented by popularity. Why tiny visualizations? In the last year I've been impressed by the number and quality of large scale data visualizations. Sites like Digg Labs, We Feel Fine and Gapminder all present a new flow and discovery model for data. However, in these examples the visualization is based on a very large data set. Recently, I've become increasingly interested in the idea of tiny visualizations and how this notion can be used as a way to navigate blogs and other micro communities.
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Tags: visualizations, data visualizations
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
42 Recent AJAX Tutorials
When I first started posting about AJAX over a year ago, many of the posts I found were about definitions, theory or examples. Today, most of the links that I find are tutorials and I applaud this. The following is a list of what I consider to be the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials I've found in the last two months.
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Tags: examples, source code, tutorials, downloadable, ajax
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
When I first started posting about AJAX over a year ago, many of the posts I found were about definitions, theory or examples. Today, most of the links that I find are tutorials and I applaud this. The following is a list of what I consider to be the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials I've found in the last two months.
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Tags: examples, source code, tutorials, downloadable, ajax
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible - 40 Tutorials and Articles
AJAX is a great tool for creating rich internet applications, however, when improperly implemented it can cause huge accessibility issues. The good news is that most of these issues can be fixed so your websites are viewable by a much wider audience. Great resources on accessibility have been around for years, however, many web 2.0 and AJAX websites ignore all of the research that went into turning website accessibility into a movement followed by most professional web developers. Below you'll find a list of 40 best AJAX accessibility tutorials and articles that I have found on the web in the last year.
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Tags: examples, source code, tutorials, downloadable, resources, ajax
Monday, June 26, 2006
AJAX is a great tool for creating rich internet applications, however, when improperly implemented it can cause huge accessibility issues. The good news is that most of these issues can be fixed so your websites are viewable by a much wider audience. Great resources on accessibility have been around for years, however, many web 2.0 and AJAX websites ignore all of the research that went into turning website accessibility into a movement followed by most professional web developers. Below you'll find a list of 40 best AJAX accessibility tutorials and articles that I have found on the web in the last year.
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Tags: examples, source code, tutorials, downloadable, resources, ajax
Monday, June 26, 2006
What You Should Know About AJAX Security: 24 Tutorials
For the most part AJAX does not significantly increase the security vulnerabilities in most web applications. However, javascript, XML and asynchronous server calls do have potential holes if not properly implemented. If you're an application developer or security professional there are things to watch out for with AJAX applications. If you're new to AJAX there are many hazards to watch out for, and tutorials and examples are one of the worst culprits for security vulnerabilities. Before you start downloading examples and making them live on your server you should learn a bit about security first. Below, you'll find a list of tutorials, examples, and articles that will detail many of the security implications of using AJAX..
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Saturday, June 10, 2006
For the most part AJAX does not significantly increase the security vulnerabilities in most web applications. However, javascript, XML and asynchronous server calls do have potential holes if not properly implemented. If you're an application developer or security professional there are things to watch out for with AJAX applications. If you're new to AJAX there are many hazards to watch out for, and tutorials and examples are one of the worst culprits for security vulnerabilities. Before you start downloading examples and making them live on your server you should learn a bit about security first. Below, you'll find a list of tutorials, examples, and articles that will detail many of the security implications of using AJAX..
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Tags: examples, tutorials, ajax
Saturday, June 10, 2006
50 AJAX Reference Websites From Around the World
As a consistent devotee of the AJAX scene over the past year or so I have hundreds of feeds in my reader. Recently, I've had several email requests from readers requesting to know what AJAX websites I visit daily. While I visit any title that interest me, these are the sites I go to consistently.
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Tags: examples, source code, tutorials, downloadable, resources, ajax
Monday, May 08, 2006
As a consistent devotee of the AJAX scene over the past year or so I have hundreds of feeds in my reader. Recently, I've had several email requests from readers requesting to know what AJAX websites I visit daily. While I visit any title that interest me, these are the sites I go to consistently.
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Tags: examples, source code, tutorials, downloadable, resources, ajax
Monday, May 08, 2006
60 More AJAX Tutorials
With the popularity of AJAX growing every day I've had the opportunity to collect and try out many more tutorials in the last several months. These examples and how-to's represent the best tutorials that I've personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of the overall group. This post is intended for individuals who learn best by example. Most of the listed tutorials come complete with instructions and source code. I've also categorized all of the tutorials for easy browsing. Enjoy!
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Tags: ajax
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
With the popularity of AJAX growing every day I've had the opportunity to collect and try out many more tutorials in the last several months. These examples and how-to's represent the best tutorials that I've personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of the overall group. This post is intended for individuals who learn best by example. Most of the listed tutorials come complete with instructions and source code. I've also categorized all of the tutorials for easy browsing. Enjoy!
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Tags: ajax
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks
The following is a compilation of all of the AJAX toolkits and frameworks that I have either reviewed or have first hand experience with and would recommend. It seem like a new AJAX toolkit or framework has come out every week or so since the term AJAX was coined a little over a year ago. As a designer and developer I find these tools invaluable in the process of rapid web development.
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Tags: ajax
Friday, March 31, 2006
The following is a compilation of all of the AJAX toolkits and frameworks that I have either reviewed or have first hand experience with and would recommend. It seem like a new AJAX toolkit or framework has come out every week or so since the term AJAX was coined a little over a year ago. As a designer and developer I find these tools invaluable in the process of rapid web development.
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Social Bookmarking From Inside Second Life?
Last week one of our clients at Ideacodes held a virtual fashion show at their virtual showroom in the online world known as Second Life. Stylehive, which is a a collaborative shopping community purchased land and built their virtual showroom inside of Second Life several weeks ago. Since then they have populated their space with items that users have bookmarked in the hive. These products that they feature in their showroom are not just the user submitted images, they have been rendered in a 3-D program to be exact replicas of the original products. Very cool.
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Tags: ajax
Monday, March 27, 2006
Last week one of our clients at Ideacodes held a virtual fashion show at their virtual showroom in the online world known as Second Life. Stylehive, which is a a collaborative shopping community purchased land and built their virtual showroom inside of Second Life several weeks ago. Since then they have populated their space with items that users have bookmarked in the hive. These products that they feature in their showroom are not just the user submitted images, they have been rendered in a 3-D program to be exact replicas of the original products. Very cool.
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Tags: ajax
Monday, March 27, 2006
The Web 2.0 Big Font Controversy
Do you ever wonder why many of the new websites you go to have giant high-contrast fonts? Extraterrestrials, a clan of very elderly web designers, or maybe it's just a bunch of punk kids that are trying to be trendy? While in some cases any of these may be true, I would argue the real culprits are designers who base their typographic decisions on research (hopefully).
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Do you ever wonder why many of the new websites you go to have giant high-contrast fonts? Extraterrestrials, a clan of very elderly web designers, or maybe it's just a bunch of punk kids that are trying to be trendy? While in some cases any of these may be true, I would argue the real culprits are designers who base their typographic decisions on research (hopefully).
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Learning Ruby: A Guide to Online Tutorials, Examples and Downloads
When I started learning Ruby on Rails a little over a year ago someone in the Ruby community told me there were currently on 164 developers in the United States. Over the course of the last year that number has grown exponentially. As with many next generation technologies the challenge is how to learn it. Often times the only resources for learning are workshops, seminars, books or online tutorials and examples.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
When I started learning Ruby on Rails a little over a year ago someone in the Ruby community told me there were currently on 164 developers in the United States. Over the course of the last year that number has grown exponentially. As with many next generation technologies the challenge is how to learn it. Often times the only resources for learning are workshops, seminars, books or online tutorials and examples.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
There are quite a few AJAX demos and examples on the web right now. While these are invaluable to learning AJAX, some people need a bit more information than just a raw piece of code. In todays environment there are many ways to learn AJAX including, books, classes, conferences, workshops and tutorials. Of these the only one that is free and accessible to everyone are web-based tutorials. The following is a list of what I consider the be the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials that I've found over the past year.
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Tags: ajax
Monday, March 06, 2006
There are quite a few AJAX demos and examples on the web right now. While these are invaluable to learning AJAX, some people need a bit more information than just a raw piece of code. In todays environment there are many ways to learn AJAX including, books, classes, conferences, workshops and tutorials. Of these the only one that is free and accessible to everyone are web-based tutorials. The following is a list of what I consider the be the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials that I've found over the past year.
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Tags: ajax
Monday, March 06, 2006
Downloadable AJAX Galleries, Slideshows and Effects
Until recently many of the most visually stunning and functional image galleries, slideshows, and effects were done through Flash. With the advent of AJAX many developers are taking another look at javascript and are producing some very amazing functionality in these areas.
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Until recently many of the most visually stunning and functional image galleries, slideshows, and effects were done through Flash. With the advent of AJAX many developers are taking another look at javascript and are producing some very amazing functionality in these areas.
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Max Kiesler is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder
and principal of Ideacodes.com, a web consultancy in San Francisco
focused on next generation websites. About Max...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License