Jun 24

A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax

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A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax

Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that promotes rapid development. Clients’ demands are ever increasing yet they still expect the same quality of output.

Frameworks, like Rails, help to achieve this; why?… here are some of the reasons:


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Jun 14

How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX

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How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX

AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.

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Mar 11

10 AJAX-based & PHP WebMail Clients For a Great User Experience

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10 AJAX-based & PHP WebMail Clients For a Great User Experience

Employees need to access their email from wherever they happen to be – on the road, at customer sites, remote offices, and at home. WebMail clients allows receiving and sending email messages using POP3 and SMTP protocols through both local and remote mail servers. Providing secure filtering of unsafe content while viewing HTML-formatted email messages. WebMail clients can operate under different popular web platforms (PHP, ASP.NET, ruby on rails, java).

Today i wanted to share with you 10 AJAX-based & PHP webmail client that delivers the look and feel, usability and performance of a desktop application. Some of the webmail clients listed below are open source code that can be easily modified to better suit user’s needs, while others are not. So You must check their license to know the rules.

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Jan 11

10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content

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10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content

Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.

Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 10 11 smart javascript techniques you should always have handy when creating your next layout design.

“Page Sliders”, “Hiding Content”, “Image or Content Sliders”, “Animated Slideshows”, “Carousels”, “Tabbed content” as well as “resizable, draggable & slidable” & “lightboxes” modules that you can use for effective presentations of your content (text or images).

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Nov 2

Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials

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Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.

The list below is made up of the best 50 FREE scripts available, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.

jQuery, Mootools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste has its demos served.

You might be interested to check other Ajax related posts.

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Jun 25

23+ Impressive Tools for Faster Javascript/Ajax Development

23+ Impressive Tools for Faster Javascript/Ajax Development

Javascript applications are still one of the most complex issues when it comes to web-development. Many tools and applications could make your developing life pretty fast and simple. Today we wanted to share with you a wide range of tools and applications that could really help you build, test and debug Javascript and Ajax applications. Let us know your experience with the tools listed here or others that are not.

You might be interested to check other related posts for more useful tools:

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May 11

Exceptional Ajax/javascript Techniques (Recently Created)

Exceptional Ajax/javascript Techniques (Recently Created)

In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. The best thing about this list is how fresh it is, you might have seen some of it but we guarantee not all.

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May 7

30+ Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars

30+ Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars

Every once in a while we like to focus on different design elements and how to use javascript and ajax to make them more interactive and more flexible to the user. In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Sliders, Scrollers and scrollbar techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs.

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Apr 9

37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

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37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

It’s really amazing to see what one can create using jQuery. Developers just don’t stop making incredibly interactive web applications every now and then. This post just demonstrates excellent examples of some of the best jQuery plugins out there.

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Mar 5

45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins

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45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins

Two month ago we’ve presented the 50 favorite jQuery plugins many developers use and we promised that the second version will be coming soon. Today, we are going to introduce 45+ more jquery plugins that were recently created, Read the rest of this entry »

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