I haven’t blogged lately but I’m going to try to get with it again. Last month I finished up a big project built on top of WordPress, and then started a new job. I’m doing less PHP coding in my…
Deciding What AJAX Programming Style to Use
In my AJAX book, Understanding AJAX, I spend a lot of time talking about the various programming styles you can use with AJAX. Looking back at the chapter it seems to me there are 2 major styles of programming and…
New tutorial using HTML_AJAX and PEAR::Pager
Lorenzo Alberton wrote a nice tutorial combining PEAR::Pager and HTML_AJAX. Its amazing how easy things get when you have some good libraries to rely on.
HTML_AJAX reaches beta
Yesterday we released HTML_AJAX 0.5.0 It contains lots of bug fixes and a couple new features, but the biggest change is this means were commiting to a stable API. Between this release and 1.0 will be in a feature freeze,…
AJAX Answers
The last couple days have been a lot of fun. I was at LinuxWorld and did a book signing yesterday, my publisher had the first copies of Understanding AJAX at their booth. They should be showing up at bookstores and…
You got AJAX questions I got Answers
Have you wondered whats the easiest way to submit a form using AJAX, what the status of HTML_AJAX development is, or what is covered in Understanding AJAX? Well nows your chance. Submit your questions general AJAX questions, questions about my…
Adding AJAX to a Website step by step, Part II
I have a lot more change's i'd like to make to webthumb so the last article (Adding AJAX to a website step by step) is now the start of the series. In this article will be taking front page of…
Adding AJAX to a website step by step
Update: The next article in this series is now complete. Webthumb is a small project of mine that takes a snapshot of a website and gives you thumbnails in 4 different sizes. Currently the site is rather boring and has…
Understanding AJAX Digital Shortcut Available
A chapter from my book, Understanding AJAX has been made available as a digital shortcut. This chapter covers the different ways you can use the data you transfer using XMLHttpRequest. Document centric approaches based on HTML and XML are described…
HTML_AJAX WordPress Plugin Tutorial
I found a handy tutorial of building a stock lookup plugin for WordPress using HTML_AJAX. Shows how easy HTML_AJAX makes AJAX. The only problem I see is the code won’t work in PHP5 since introspection will return the method name…
I’ve been away, but I’m back
As you may have noticed I haven’t been bloggiing much lately, but there are a couple good reasons why. First I’m getting married, planning the wedding tends to take a bit of time. Second i’ve been working really hard to…
HTML_AJAX 0.4.0 is released
HTML_AJAX 0.4.0 has been released. You can upgrade using the PEAR package manager in the normal ways. The biggest new feature is the addition of a setInnerHTML method that runs any JavaScript in the string your using to update and…
PHP AJAX File Upload Progress Meter Updates
Over the weekend my file upload progress meter code got lots of traffic. It seems it made it made it on the del.icio.us popular list as well as getting over a thousands diggs. To celebrate this i’ve updated the code.…
AJAX and Latency
So i just saw a great piece by Harry Fuecks on how latency can effect AJAX requests. Its one of his demo’s from the ajax@localhost presentation he gave at the PHP Conference Uk. Now this showed a number of interesting…
HTML FAQ Answer: Other library integration plans
I answered an FAQ question tonight on the HTML_AJAX wiki, im posting the answer here as well since I know most people don’t check the wiki for changes every day. Outside of this answer I’d like to hear from what…
PHPMagazine.net Interview
I did an email interview with PHP Magazine. Its mainly about HTML_AJAX but there were also some general AJAX questions and questions about PEAR. Responding to an interview like that takes a lot longer then I thought. Anyhow if your…
HTML_AJAX 0.3.4 is released
HTML_AJAX 0.3.4 was released today, it contains lots of bug fixes so if you use HTML_AJAX you’ll want to upgrade. Release notes and testing results are available on the wiki, and the examples are available online if you want to…
HTML_AJAX Feature of the Week: Javascript Behaviors
I’m trying out something new here, every week i’m going to write a short post describing an HTML_AJAX feature. Hopefully this will get some people started using the new features and maybe even get some more developers helping out with…
Looking for HTML_AJAX Success Stories
If you’ve used HTML_AJAX to make something cool I’d like to hear from you. If what you’ve created is publically accessible that would be even better. Just leave a comment on this post saying what you’ve created and given a…
HTML_AJAX 0.3.1 Released
HTML_AJAX 0.3.1 is out, lots of good bug fixes, and iframe fallback support for Opera and IE with activeX turned off. More details are available on the release notes on the wiki. I would like to thank Elizabeth Smith for…