Creator of jQuery Announces Plans for Second JavaScript Book

John Resig - creator of jQuery - has announced plans to begin work on a new JavaScript book.

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The Weight of a Bury

This article is about how a story with 68 diggs was buried with only 4 bury votes. The data for this article was captured using the Digg Bury Recorder by Ajaxonomy.

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Capture a Digg Stories Buries with Bury Recorder

This post announces the release of an application that records the buries that a given story receives including the reason for the bury, the number of diggs a story has at the time of the bury, the time and date of the bury and the number buries. The application is web based and a free open source project.

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Spellify 1.0 - An Automatic Text Field Spell Checker

Spellify is a script.aculo.us/prototype based spell checker for form fields that utilizes Google as its spell check engine. Spellify version 1.0 has been released, officially taking the application out of beta and bringing it to prime time.

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The power of the Bury.

This story tells the tail of how a post was removed in just 2 and a half hours even with over 30 diggs at the time. It includes some ideas for Digg to make it less likely to have a someone targeted whenever they post a story.

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If You Bury a Digg Story at Least Comment

This post talks about the rumored Bury Brigade and asking that they at least leave a comment when you bury a post. It also asks Kevin Rose for some visibility as to why it was buried.

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Ruby 1.9.0 Just Released

This post tells of the release of Ruby 1.9.0 and gives the links to download the new release.

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Internet Explorer 8 Passes Acid2 Test

Well, it's time for the devil to grab a warm jacket. According to the IEBlog, IE 8 passes the Acid2 test, an important and rigorous measurement of web standards compliance. Both IE 7 and Mozilla 2.0.x fail the Acid2 test.

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Ajaxonomy Opens Up Blog!

Ajaxonomy announces that readers of the web development blog can now have their own blog on the site. The most interesting thing is that not only do you get your own blog, but any interesting posts can receive more traffic as it can be promoted to the sites home page.

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ECMAScript 4 - Object Oriented JavaScript - Class Structure

This post shows the proposed class structure that is to be used in the next version of JavaScript. This will put object oriented JavaScript more in-line with languages like Java, C++ and C#.

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Yahoo! Maps gives Flash the Boot!

Straight from the Yahoo Developer Network, Jason Levitt informs us that Yahoo Maps is now using pure JavaScript instead of a hybrid of Flash and JavaScript. If that wasn't enough, he also informs us that a new version of the Maps AJAX API will be available next year!

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Object Oriented JavaScript - Should You Use It? - Part 2

This post gets to the meat and potatoes and shows code example of how to program in Object Oriented JavaScript and why it is useful. It also touches on how Object Oriented Programming differs from Java and C++ (i.e. class structure). The post also shows an example of how this would pertain to JSON.

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Object Oriented JavaScript - Should You use It?

This post shows how to program in Object Oriented JavaScript and why it is useful. It also touches on how Object Oriented Programming differs from Java and C++.

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Sparkline PHP Graphing Library

An overview of the Sparkline PHP Graphing Library complete with a code example to get you started.

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Ajaxonomy Adds OpenID Support

This post tells how Ajaxonomy now supports OpenID!

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Cross-Domain XML Access in Ajax - Including PHP Code

This post tells how to access XML data in an Ajax application. Includes PHP code to accomplish this.

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JavaScript Game Library - Start Playing Your Games

This post shows a JavaScript Library for creating Games. It also has a link to play many demo games.

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ajax im 3.2 just released! [includes demo]

ajax im is a browser-based instant messaging client. It uses AJAX to create a near real-time IM environment that can be used in conjunction with community, intranet, and social websites. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this "web application" to work, as everything is updated in real-time via JavaScript.

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Making Prototype Smaller - 40K smaller!

This post takes the full Prototype library and shows how to shrink it by 40K. It includes a demo of this so you can see how it will effect your applications load time.

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PHP Templating - Reasons to use it and a Tutorial

If you’ve done any developing with PHP (especially with open source PHP projects) you will have probably at least seen some templating. This post includes reasons why it is good to use PHP templating and a tutorial to get you started.

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XML versus JSON - What is Best for Your App?

One of the biggest debates in Ajax development today is JSON versus XML. This is at the heart of the data end of Ajax since you usually receive JSON or XML from the server side (although these are not the only methods of receiving data).

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Rails 2.0 Finally Released - What's New

Ruby on Rails is one of the most used frameworks for new web 2.0 startups. This 2.0 release is the second recent present that we web developers have recieved this Christmas (the first was OpenID 2.0).

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OpenID 2.0 Finally Released!

It is Christmas time and we web developers have just received a great gift. OpenID 2.0 has finally been released. This will hopefully allow for greater adoption of the API (especially now that both Microsoft and Google have announced their supporting of it).

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Convert Ajaxonomy to JSON

The post show the code to takes an RSS Feed and converts it into JSON.

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Facebook Application Development with CakePHP

Facebook is one of the largest social networks and has become a great platform to develop for. This post is a good tutorial on developing an application from Facebook Developer

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Making the Most of Java 5.0: Enum Tricks

In this first of a series of articles, from Brennan Spies of Ajaxonomy.com, on Java 5.0, Brennan shows some of the interesting ways that you can exploit the new language features to improve the way you code Java.

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PHP Ajax Chat Tutorial

Start tutorial for a web-based chat application using PHP, MySQL, DHTML, Ajax, and the Prototype.js library

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Keep your JavaScript Small with Dojo ShrinkSafe

ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript “compression” system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.

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When Will We Start Seeing Major OpenID Support?

This post is about how and when will OpenID be fully supported by most major sites.

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Debugging Your JavaScript Code the Easy Way

David Hurth of Ajaxonomy.com gives a run down of some of the best tools for JavaScript debugging.

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