Category Archives: ajax

Google translation utilities

I was going to use the global translator plugin for my translation needs, but this two has a couple of problems:

It tends to make Google (and other sites) suspect that it is a virus, so they stop supplying translation services.
It uses the translations services in a deceitful manner. Parsing the translation response, removing links etc.

The […]

MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts

MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
This webpage is a great collection of resources for Ajax/JavaScript web developers.  I’ll be grabbing the jQuery portlets example to integrate with our upcoming questionnaire application - which will allow unobtrusive sections. But there is a ton of great stuff that we can […]

what is a whizzoo?

We weren’t sure what a whizzoo was or should be… so we decided it might be fun to build a simple tool that allowed people to come along and say what they thought it could be.
Perhaps we will build a social tool that is socially designed?

jquery providing ajax with form validation

Last night I spent a little time putting in place an AJAX integrated email register form, with form validation. The tools I was using were: PHP, MySql, jQuery and the jquery validation plugin.
There are a tonne of resources online for this sort of stuff and I wish it was available 2 or 3 years ago! […]

ajaxian tutorials: JSON with jQuery

Being a Java Developer with web services background, I like XML parsing; XML fitts into enterprise Java applications nicely.
Alternatively, feedback to the Ajaxian reveals that an AJAX developer prefers JSON. So the Ajaxian have published a tutorial on processing JSON with jQuery as well. Using JSON in a JavaScript environment is sensible, because JSON is […]