Mike Stenhouse has published a must read article for any developer currently using AJAX. Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps is an excellent tutorial that is complete with examples and great explanations.
If you’re still running with Panther on OSX, this tutuorial will help you Install Rails Web Application Framework. This tutorial really helped me out a month ago.
I have quite figured out the usefulness of this tool, but nonetheless, Bitty Browser is an interesting piece of work. It allows you to embed a mini-browser into your webpages that is capable of browsing any content delivered on the web, but specifically works well with RSS.
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Rico is a suite of rich internet components, behaviors and effects for the web application space. The components are open-source and can be grouped into the following categories:
Graphic Design USA presents its 2005 Color Forecast . Their report includes insights and examples from the fashion industry, home decor industry, the Color Association of the United States, the Pantone Color Institute, and the Color Marketing Group.
The Fedora Project has just released the final version of their Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution. I had the pleasure of working with FC3 a month ago, and I must admit that it is the best distribution of Linux that I have ever worked with. The install was effortless (even detected and configured my oddball wireless NIC) and the configuration and extendability was great. I even mentioned to a friend that I would consider using this as a desktop OS!
I’ve yet to try Ubuntu which advertises itself as a great Desktop Linux, as most of my Linux work involves setting up server daemons, so I’ve purposely stayed away from the purely desktop distros.
Simon Willison has created a better way of entering dates for your web applications. Inspired by PHP’s strtotime function, Simon’s JavaScript code accepts a string in a wide variety of formats and converts it in to a time. You can enter simple expressions like:
Luke Wroblewski has published an excellent article that may help you with AJAX Interface Design. Luke states that:
When any new technology undergoes fast and widespread adoption, there’s always an opportunity for unintended misuse … Some of these technologies have been permanently scarred by excessive misuse. Flash is synonymous with Skip Intro and Java applets within Web applications are often shunned.
OnLamp.com’s Curt Hibbs, author of Rolling with Ruby on Rails Part I and II, has come up with another great tutorial titled – Ajax on Rails. This article/tutorial will introduce you to Rails’ built in AJAX helpers.
