Archive for April, 2006

AgileGallery - Free AJAX Photo gallery for Picasa

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!AgileGallery does something that really sets it apart from a lot of the Ajax code we review and discuss. Instead of running code on a third party server you actually install the code on your own site. The only downside is you can not install the gallery on a site where you do not have access, such as a blog on BlogSpot.
For our test we used some drawings from my desktop and followed the instructions. The entire process only took a few minutes and […]

24Eyes RSS Dashboard

24Eyes is a RSS Dashboard aggregator. Unlike Bloglines and most other aggregators it allows users to place RSS feeds from specific sites together in a very user friendly format.
Is it a better format? That would depend on how you want your information formatted.
The downside is the user is limited to pre determined feeds, or OPML feeds and to read a article reguires a new window to open.
Overall very nice looking site, it is just up to your personal taste as to the usability of this aggregator.
Link : 24eyes - The Premium RSS Dashboard on the Internet

ajaxXLS

ajaxXLS was just released. There could be some real benefits to an Ajax app like this. Excel is a rather expensive solution and it would be nice to load up a spreadsheet from anywhere. So that is exactly what I tried to do.
I went to the site and followed the simple instructions. For this test I used a very small spreadsheet I have to balance a checkbook. It is one page, 5 columns x 27 rows. The first image is the original XLS file.

Now, here is the file as it loaded into ajaxXLS.

As you can see the formatting is not […]

Ajax Drop Down Menus

Here is a nice little tutorial on using Ajax to create drop down menu boxes. Adam does a good job of walking through the easy development of this and supplies us with samples and source code.
In our example, we’ll use a pair of dropdown menu boxes (SELECT tags in HTML). A selection in the first box affects our list of choices in the second box. It’s not exactly cutting edge (Thau did something similar using JavaScript), but it’s a proof of concept.
Link : Nitty Gritty Ajax: by Adam DuVander 12 Apr 2006

AJAX Tutorials @ DesignPlanet.biz

Although there are a lot of tutorials that have the same basic syntax and characteristics it is educational to look through as much as you can.
Every programmer has their own unique way of writing and documenting (or not) code and sometimes one particular style or structure may strike you differently and open up something that was not apparent before.
With that said, here are a few more tutorials to check out.
Link : DP- AJAX Tutorials