Recent AJAX

• 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

• I love RSS–I hate XML namespaces

  An RSS feed reads this:
  <media:thumbnail>http://…etc/foobar.png</media:thumbnail>
  <media:largeThumbnail>http://…/thumb.png</media:largeThumbnail>
  While parsing the response XML document after querying a REST server, I found myself clueless as to why Mozilla Firefox (my main development browser) was confused about the “media:thumbnail” tag. Clearly, “document.getElementsByTagName” should grab all the “media:thumbnail” tags–at least in IE/Safari it does–but why not the Fox? Well, Mozilla Firefox seems [...]

  May 8th, 2007

• Google Search API vs Yahoo Search API

  After wrestling with Google’s search API, I found myself going back to the Yahoo Search API for many reasons.
  1) Putting a Google Search on your website feels more like a hack than an elegant implementation…
  2) Yahoo!’s search API allows you to do REST calls even on localhost as long as you have a valid Application [...]

  May 7th, 2007