Packt is delighted to announce the release of PHP Ajax Cookbook, a collection of over 60 recipes with step-by-step directions to build SEO-friendly websites using standard Ajax tools.
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CORS: Manage Your Local WebDAV Storage Using Online File Manager from IT Hit
The CORS support in Firefox, Chrome and Safari made a wonderful thing - now you can manage files on a WebDAV server without deploying any files to your server. We have just published the Ajax File Browser Beta 2 that supports this great feature. You can use this page to see how it works, just specify the Url of your WebDAV server, even the local one, located on your firewalled dev box or corporate intranet!
The cool thing is that any sever that supports WebDAV standard can be managed, regardless of underlying server technology. It has to allow cross-origin access of course. Currently each major browser has its own cross-origin specifics and we describe how to make it work in each browser here.
Book for enhancing WordPress sites using jQuery
Packt is pleased to announce a new book called WordPress 3.0 jQuery that seeks to enhance the visual interest in WordPress 3.0 websites with easy to use jQuery techniques. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book teaches developers to implement just about any jQuery enhancement on a WordPress website without having to make a the content editor switch over into HTML view.
AJAX form Validation: Learn to create responsive &user friendly form
This chapter teaches users how to create a form validation application that implements traditional techniques with added AJAX flavor, thereby making the form more user friendly,responsive, and pleasing. The intention of this chapter isn't to build the perfect validation technique but, rather, a working proof of concept that takes care of user input and ensures its validity .
Read the full chapter here:
Building Applications with JavaScript and PHP using new AJAX book
Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Web 2.0 Applications ,that helps users build user friendly Web 2.0 Applications with JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery .
Drupal Module Finder
Drupal Module Finder...very cool and very fast. Looks like John Forsythe is owner of this non-Drupal.org project.
The search engine was built from the ground up to produce incredibly fast results. Query times average under 20 ms, and the results are cached for even faster performance.
The user interface is powered by jQuery v1.2.3 and a number of custom plugins. The jQuery Update module was used to improve compatibility with Drupal 5.
I'll have to browser drupalmodules.com and find all the fun stuff there is to see at this site.
New Bitrix Site Manager CMS v6.5: Web 2.0 style
Bitrix, Inc. is proud to announce the release of Bitrix Site Manager CMS V6.5, a new version filled with marvelous enhancements and new leading-edge features, including Web 2.0 tools, site wizards, Web services, photo gallery and other utilities. Bitrix Site Manager is a Web content management system that provides stable functionality and security, and promotes cost-effective growth of clients’ Internet projects.
Power of RSS in Ajax and Web 2.0
A very nice article on RSS found at IBM's developerWorks:
Realize the power of RSS in Ajax and Web 2.0 applications - Tap this article's fully functional PHP code snippets that show you how to use PHP-based server-side functions to develop your own customizable RSS feed aggregator. [IBM developerWorks]
I'm still looking for an article that explains to those of the non-IT persuasion what RSS feeds are all about. Everytime I make an attempt to explain RSS feeds to those how don't even know what browser they are using...I get this "deer caught in the headlights" look from them. They then usually turn around shaking their head wondering if I will ever try to speak to them in English. Sigh...
Solid Ajax applications: Building the front end
"Marry technology and usability to build intuitive, easy-to-use, Ajax-driven applications that your users will appreciate."
Learn to Build Robust, Efficient, and Secure PHP/Oracle Solutions
PHP Oracle Web Development is a new book from Packt that helps users combine the power, scalability, and reliability of the Oracle Database with the ease of use, short development time, and high performance of PHP. Written by experienced author, Yuli Vasiliev, this book is built entirely around example code, covering the most popular and up-to-date topics on using PHP in conjunction with Oracle.
When building a PHP/Oracle application, users have two general options. The first is to use an Oracle database just to store data, performing all the operations on that data on the client side; the other is to use the database not only to store data, but also to process it, thus moving data processing to the data.
While building the key business logic of a database-driven PHP application inside the database is always a good idea, users should bear in mind that not all of the databases available today allow you to do. The Oracle database, which offers record-breaking performance, scalability, and reliability, does. The partnership of Oracle and the open-source scripting language PHP is an excellent solution for building high-performance, scalable, and reliable data-driven web applications.
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