Aaron Hopkins (Google) published a great, in-depth article on optimizing page load times, especially considering AJAX-apps with their inflationary number of http-requests. Hopkins gets dirty analyzing http-implementations of current popular browsers, eventually deriving a set of useful optimiziations no web-developer should miss. recommended!
ThinkFree previewed an AJAX Edition of their online Office suite on DEMOfall last weekend, promising increased performance compared to the Java-only version (reviewed here), roundtrip compatibility with Microsoft Office (meaning that it’s possible to exchange documents back and forth without losing layout or data) and improved collaboration features. compared to most competitors, ThinkFree currently offers [...]
Ajaxian released the results of their 2006 ajax-survey, asking more than 860 developers about their coding-habits. according to the survey, the leading ajax-framework clearly is Prototype, with about 43% of the developers using it to date, followed closely by the visual-effects library Script.aculo.us (33%) which is built on top of Prototype. Dojo, DWR and Moo.fx [...]
as of last saturday, Google-fanboys all around the globe may help improving Googles image search results without getting paid seriously, Google released a new tool coined Google Image Labeler into public beta (sic!), inviting volunteers to add semantic tags to images indexed by Google Image Search. to make things more interesting, tagging is [...]
Sang Shin, technology architect & evangelist at Sun Microsystems, is going to offer a free 10 week online-course on mastering AJAX, starting august 4th. the course is spread over 11 classes, containing about 40 hours of learning-material (PDF-slides, flash-demos & -screencasts). the extensive schedule covers AJAX-basics, the Dojo-Toolkit, Java-related topics (DWR, JSF-integration, jMaki) and the [...]