Yahoo UI Library (JavaScript + AJAX) is Worth Looking

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).

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.

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 10th, 2006 Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are: Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX.

June 24th, 2006 Yahoo Mail sucked (pardon my French). However their new version (beta as is the norm these days) is getting rave reviews.

July 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.

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.

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.

February 12th, 2009 Firebug has been an incredibly useful firefox add- ons for developers. Now, there is more to it, Firephp.

July 21st, 2007 Ext extension UploadForm is a new extension to easily upload multiple files from web interface to a server. The files are added to a queue first and then uploaded.

July 12th, 2007 We are few days away from redesigning this site. Here are few thoughts on what we want to achieve with this redesign effort.

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.

September 7th, 2007 You too may have received a sad notice from Yahoo Photos: Dear Angsuman, Thank you so much for using Yahoo! Photos. Before we go, we can help you move your photos to Flickr, Yahoo!'s other photo sharing service.

October 18th, 2005 Update: You may also want to look at: MySpace Hack: How To View Any Users Private Videos. Recently Samy [samy at namb dot la] released a worm ["Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm"] in MySpace, popular social networking platform like Friendster, which caused him to be added as hero to millions of MySpace users ("but most of all, samy is my hero.") as well as add him as their friend, all without their explicit permission.

July 4th, 2006 List of high quality javascript compressors. Feel free to add to this list in your comments.