AjaxCoded

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here is another cool Ajax site. Definitely in Beta mode, but worth a visit. I really like the layout although the earlier layout may have been a little more user friendly.
blabb works the way I would expect Ajax sites to work. You can search for tagged sites and then read the summary RSS or Expand it. You can also see a complete view of the site before visiting. In my mind this is one of the main reasons for RSS and Ajax.
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Excellent tutorial on adding a live search on a WordPress Blog.
Steve Smith uses prototype and scriptaculous to make things as easy as possible to put together. He also does an excellent job of walking through the process for developers at any level. As he mentions this is Word Press specific but a conversion to other blogging platforms should reasonable.

A good calendar program seems to be a perfect fit for an AJAX application. Now we just need a perfect Calendaring system to show off AJAX. The 2 leaders so far appear to be 30 Boxes and spongecell. SpongeCell is built on the Ruby on Rails platform.

A plus for 30 Boxes is the full page entry screen. I have tried it on several computers at different resolutions and it is a well designed screen. Reading through other reviews a popular area in the system is the social options. Such as being able to setup buddies and share your calendar with […]

Pandora released their RSS feeds this week and several feeds are available for Top Rated stations, artists and tracks. At CybersMusic.com we wanted to dynamcially display the Top Tracks. Using Blogger limits the use of methods to accomplish this task. Enter AJAX.
First we created a PHP page to read the Pandora feed. Then we used an AJAX script from Dynamic Drive to read the PHP page into the sidebar. The output works exactly as needed, the only downside is that most (if not all) search engine crawlers will be able to include the content as it is javascript.