Archive for August, 2006

Using Prototype’s New String Functions

3 am on August 31st, 2006

After years of extensive research and study, I’ve come to a profound conclusion — working with strings sucks. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it in JavaScript. Lucky for us, the Prototype JavaScript framework provides several shiny new String object functions to make our lives easier. Sounds like a […]


Filed under: Ajax, Javascript, Prototype by millisami
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Web 2.0 Sites in the World use MySQL

5 am on August 18th, 2006

If there’s one thing the top Web 2.0 sites in the world have in common, it’s that they need to deliver fast results to millions of simultaneous users. The other thing they have in common is MySQL. The MySQL ® database server enables Web sites like Craigslist, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Feedburner, Digg and thousands of […]


Filed under: MySQL by millisami
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Live presentation on the web, ThumbStacks.com

8 am on August 10th, 2006

Thumbstacks.com is a new online solution to make web presentations fully web-based and powered by AJAX. Using ThumbStacks you can create your presentation, save it, modify it, update it, whatever - then click “publish” and you’ll get a link you can use to share it with everyone. The best way to understand is to try […]


Filed under: Ajax, Web 2.0 by millisami
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MySpace search will be powered by Google

10 am on August 8th, 2006

Fox Interactive Media have just announced that Google will power the search on MySpace and other FIM properties. What’s more, Google will be the exclusive provider of text-based advertising (Adsense) and keyword targeted ads on FIM. Predictably, that also means Google will have the first right of refusal on ads displayed across […]


Filed under: Google, Web News by millisami
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3d Universe with jQuery

2 pm on August 3rd, 2006

Will Jessup has just release a great demo of what’s possible with jQuery (and Javascript in general): A 3d model of the universe. Try moving your mouse vertically around the screen to see the universe at different angles, horizontally to make it rotate faster. All the images are courtesy of NASA.
Will used […]


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New kid in JavaScript-Library in town

2 pm on August 3rd, 2006

Since the revolution of web 2.0, many javascript libraries like prototype, behaviour, scriptaculous, Dojo, etc…, has been released. For a roundup, you can find it here.And now here is jQuery.
Its so much less KB’ed and extensible through plugins.
You got to check it out.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.exploreweb2.com%2Fnew-kid-in-javascript-library-in-town’;
addthis_title = ‘New+kid+in+JavaScript-Library+in+town’;
[…]


Filed under: Ajax, Web 2.0 by millisami
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