Ajaxian “Guesstimate” on Apple Homepage The Ajaxian blog links to another showcase Ajaxian application: An ITunes Counter on the Apple Homepage. The counter shows the number of songs sold so far. What’s interesting is that the counter redisplays quickly, every 100 milliseconds, but the remote call only occurs once a minute. The counter is continuously updated with a guesstimate […]
Entries from July 2005
How It Works: Ajaxian “Guesstimate” on ITunes Counter
July 8th, 2005 · 4 Comments
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Prototyping Desktop Apps with Ajax?
July 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Tony Darugar on prototyping with Ajax: [A]s I went to download Tcl/Tk, it occured (sic.) to me that I could use AJAX. All I’m looking for is a simple screen that displays each record in turn. I can slap together the HTML page in no time. I can update the contents of the HTML […]
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Podcast: Testing and JUnit
July 4th, 2005 · 2 Comments
From the cashing-in-on-ITunes-4.9-hype department, the first podcast in ages. This time, first of two parts on testing and JUnit. Random apologetic waffle and some announcements at the beginning, main content begins 8 minutes in. Main thing is, much much less processing and upfront planning so as to just get more of these things out. So if it […]
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What Ajax Can’t Do Well (And What Desktop Browsers Should Therefore Exploit)
July 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
A while back, I said that Ajax is rich, but not that rich. There’s a lot that Ajax can’t do now and won’t be able to do in the foreseeable future, not in a portable way. Sound support is sketchy and relies on proprietary features as well as plugins On-the-fly graphics generation. (Canvas will soon appear in […]
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