Posts Tagged ‘Development’

Easy AJAX With jQuery

Friday, August 8th, 2008

AJAX is changing web applications, giving them a responsiveness that’s unheard of beyond the desktop. But behind all the hype, there’s not much to AJAX — (X)HTML, JavaScript, and XML are nothing new, and in this tutorial, Sitepoint will show you how to simplify the process of adding AJAX to your application even further with the help of jQuery, a popular JavaScript library.

Link: Sitepoint

Using jQuery With Ruby On Rails

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change.

jQuery, like Protoype, is a javascript library that takes care of much of the grunt work you face day to day. It helps to resolve your cross browser issues, makes creating dom elements easier and various other things.

Link: Jim Neath

Beginners PHP Video Tutorials

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

These beginners PHP video tutorials were created for web designers who have little to no programming experience.

Where most other PHP tutorials and books assume you know programming (or at least, that’s what it seems like …) This site assumes you need to have things explained (and demonstrated) in non-nerd terms.

Link: Killer PHP

Real-Time Web Tracking & Analysis Application

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application.

Woopra’s revolutionary server architecture, combined with its intuitively designed client software, enables seamless tracking of visitors. Webmasters can track over 40 different statistical events and analytics. Never before has so much information been instantaneously available to Webmasters.

Link: Woopra