Recent Web 2.0

• AJAX Games — Bringing back the Old School

  I recently saw a cool Brickles AJAX game made with Prototype.js. The website goes into detail about how to create the game–showing how to develop the classes/objects and explaining how the user interacts with the game.
  Do you remember playing classic games, such as, Pac-man, Brickles, Hangman, and Carmen Sandiego in black and white? Do you [...]

  July 31st, 2007

• Archaic Search is Unproductive

  Are you used to typing in keywords and hitting the enter key? You’re probably
  used to it because of Google Search–but have you ever wondered how you could
  increase your productivity and user-experience in searching?
  Let’s look at iTunes as an example for a really well-done search function.

  “Search as you type” is great because it eliminates the need [...]

  July 28th, 2007

• Guess Who’s Back, XWNED Updates

  Sorry for not updating for so long–I got sick and I blew a ligament in my knee while playing badminton! But, now that I’m back, here’s what’s going on:
  XWNED Dashboard
  * Updated recently
  - Added an animation/fade when you destroy modules.
  - Added collapsible module functionality. If the content is too large, and you’re not feeling it–minimize it!
  - [...]

  June 15th, 2007

• Editor’s Pick on Yahoo! Application Gallery

  My AJAX dashboard (XWNED Dashboard) was nominated as Editor’s Pick on Yahoo!’s Application Gallery!!
  This has totally motivated me to gather more ideas for XWNED, as well as, other projects–such as, AJAX Project Management (Gantt charts, statistics), as well as, AJAX Card Games!!
  Stay tuned!

  June 2nd, 2007

• It’s a web application, not a web site!

  Why do the general public confuse web apps and web sites? Web sites are developed to market specific entities and establish a brand. A web application has complex business logic, that allows users to interact with the application. I guess everyone’s still in the web 1.0 phase, where anything on the web is static–no sharing, [...]

  May 26th, 2007