Tag Archives: AJAX

 

Notifications: the other approach

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A normal problem: notifications or updates that have to be displayed on a website, but it’s kind of overloading the backend. But as long as the page is open: please update the status dynamically (if necessary) without reloading the page.

I can hear you think: AJAX! Yes, I’ll use AJAX for sure. But there is a little problem when it comes to how up-to-date you want these notifications to be without overloading the backend of the website.

In this article I’ll approach pushing notifications from another perspective, regulating them in the backend rather than the frontend.

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AjaxTwits – Load Tweets on your website with AJAX

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Twitter is an amazing service to keep in touch with everyone on the Internet. It’s easy, fast and there are a lot of Twitter applications.

I came up with the idea to Ajaxify (is that even a word?) the tweets on my website. As you can see, it’s on the right, below the last.fm recently played. It’s called AjaxTwits!

This article will show you how to use AjaxTwits and how to install it on your website.

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What to do with AJAX and what not to

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AJAX is one the nicest concept I’ve seen in web development. The basics are simple and quite easy to use.
There are a lot of AJAX frameworks around like jQuery, Prototype and backbase. These frameworks help you create an AJAX application with ease.
But is AJAX really that good? No, but if you use it correctly, it is!

In this article I wish to share my view on AJAX and the possibilities it gives to web developers and designers, and why AJAX is wrong in several situations.

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