"nitty gritty tech" entries
Yahoo! Open Sources UIs and Design Patterns
Kudos to Yahoo!, who today released two pieces of goodness into the commons. The first is their UI library, and the second is their Design Patterns Library. The UI Library is a collection of DHTML/Ajax/Javascript (pick your favourite term) controls and widgets. The Design Patterns Library is "intended to provide Web designers prescriptive guidance to help solve common design problems…
Google Maps Extension for GeoRSS
GeoRSS is rapidly establishing itself as a useful lightweight format for exchanging point data. Based on the widely popular RSS format (motto: "not just for spam blogs!"), GeoRSS has found homes in Yahoo!, worldKit, and mapbuilder. Now Mikel Maron (one of our Where Fair superstars from last year) has released MGeoRSS, a Google Maps extension that handles GeoRSS. Says Mikel,…
Getting Pragmatic about Ajax
Those Pragmatic Programmers are bringing their pragmatism to Ajax with the addition of Ajax Studio to their lineup. Mike Clark mentioned it to me in passing and I immediately scrambled to see just how I could make it out to the three-day seminar. (Aside: If you're using Ruby on Rails for anything approaching deployment, be sure to read the writings…
eval( '(' + YahooWebServices + ')' );
Our friend Jeff McManus over at the Yahoo! Developer Network clued us in to Y! Web Services now being available in a delicious new flavor: JSON–JavaScript Object Notation. Say bye-bye to XML parsing and the need for (very much) intermediary code when building Web 2.0 or single-page applications using Y!'s services and data. Simply fetch a wodge of JSON representing…
eval( ‘(‘ + YahooWebServices + ‘)’ );
Our friend Jeff McManus over at the Yahoo! Developer Network clued us in to Y! Web Services now being available in a delicious new flavor: JSON–JavaScript Object Notation. Say bye-bye to XML parsing and the need for (very much) intermediary code when building Web 2.0 or single-page applications using Y!'s services and data. Simply fetch a wodge of JSON representing…
Google Maps + Flash = VGMap
Mike Frumin from Eyebeam has released VGMap. It lets you overlay Flash vector art on top of a Google Map. It's very cute (see the NYC Subway map demo app) and represents another step along the path that takes GIS technology from specialized desktop suites to general purpose web apps. I wonder how long it'll take someone to integrate WFS…