AJAX-Javascript File Upload Form

May 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).

February 17th, 2006 Yahoo released an UI library for web applications, developed using Javascript and AJAX. It provides some nifty components like dual-calendar, tree, drag-and-drop, slidedrs etc.

November 13th, 2005 Behaviour promotes itself as "the missing link for your AJAX apps". It allows you to use CSS selectors (like id or class) to apply Javascript behaviors to your HTML elements.

August 10th, 2006 Everytime I tried to upload a file to my PmWiki (popular PHP based Wiki) installation, it failed with "no file uploaded" error. Also it asks me for password thrice, once before accessing the upload page and twice after uploading.

September 7th, 2005 A nifty idea where you can use a Suggest box (AJAX enabled) to enable users to search any data on your site, including your pages etc. The downside is that it is Internet Explorer only solution.

June 20th, 2007 I was contacted by ProjectLocker to review their new service: Subversion Analytics. I took the service through the paces using their demo account.

May 14th, 2009 Recently we are concentrating on tutorials a lot. Results: Top 10 Tutorials to Develop iPhone Apps and Top 10 Nginx Tutorial to help you out.

July 14th, 2006 A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.

January 14th, 2007 A very simple way to execute HTML files is by telling the server to parse html files for SSI commands. To do it simply add the following lines to your .htaccess file: AddType text/html .html AddHandler server-parsed .html This has the downside of processing all the html files in that directory and its subdirectories.

August 12th, 2007 Trim is a useful function available in languages like Java & PHP which removes the leading and traling whitespace(s) from a String. Unfortunately Javascript doesn't natively provide trim functionality to the String object.

July 18th, 2006 MySpace has been infected by Flash based (swf) worm which spreading rapidly through MySpace. It is embedding JavaScript code into users' profiles that redirects visitors to a site claiming the U.S.

April 18th, 2005 An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax.

May 17th, 2006 Google has released GWT - a java window toolkit which converts your java applications (using the toolkit API) to javascript (incl. AJAX) and HTML.

March 19th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0/1.5.x

August 30th, 2006 AdRotator is a WordPress plugin which you can used to randomly rotate your ads (including but not limited to AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Clicksor, Chitika etc.) on WordPress blogs. It allows you to display an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location.