There and Back Again

Working for Obu Web i’ve found myself spending less time on code I would say meets the definition of AJAX I put in my book and more time on code that used to be called DHTML. But I guess I’m ok calling it AJAX, at least its pronouncable and building little JavaScript widgets is fun.

Today’s widget is an Image Strip, it has a lot of real uses, but the way I like too use it is for fancy visual effects.

My slides from last nights azPHP presentation are now available. Feel free to post a comment if you have any questions.

I’ll be giving a talk about Jquery at the azPHP meeting tomorrow. If your in the Phoenix area you should come to the meeting, its at Walt Tv in Tempe at 7pm. azPHP meetings are a great place to meet fellow PHP developers and this month to learn some neat AJAX tricks.

Since im at a Web Design Firm these days I get to work on a lot of interesting smaller projects. One of my tasks has been to help launch BestPartyEvery.com. I didn’t get to do much on the development side just a bit of cleanup, and some code reviews which has been interesting.

bpe uses jQuery for the JavaScript effects, which is a library I haven’t looked at before, but that has a very nice well documented API. I’ve been using jQuery in a couple other projects so chances are you’ll see it show up in a couple articles soon.