Max Kiesler - Designer » mHub

Jiffy Web - Google Code

max — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:19:00 +0000

“Jiffy is an end-to-end real-world web page instrumentation and measurement suite. The first beta was released on 6/23/2008, as announced at O’Reilly Velocity 2008. Jiffy was built and is maintained by the WhitePages.com team.”

Website: http://code.google.com/p/jiffy-web/

Phototype - Image Manipulation with Javascript

max — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:11:00 +0000

“Lately I had same crazy thoughts on coding a javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. I decided to do some test which eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image. With phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images.”

Website: http://ajaxorized.com/phototype-image-manipulation-with-javascript

jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS

max — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:12:00 +0000

“When we first launched the lab, we released a jQuery plugin that automatically preloads all images referenced in CSS files. We’ve found the script to be incredibly helpful in developing snappy applications where images are always ready when we need them. This post describes a significant update to the script which will make it even easier to integrate in existing projects.”

Website: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_automatically_preload_images_from_css_with_jquery/

Creating an Ajax contact form - from start to finish

max — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:04:00 +0000

“In this tutorial I

jQuick - Quick Tag Creator for JQuery

max — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:00 +0000

jQuick is a quick tag creator for jQuery written by Francesco Sullo. “During the development of the first releases of PassPack, I adopted Easy DOM Creation by Michael Geary to quickly manage the DOM elements. But, in january, with the beta4 version of PassPack I needed to overcome Michael’s library’s limits (due to the compatibility with Prototype). So I developed jQuick. I hope you find it useful.”

Website: http://jquick.sullof.com/jquick/

Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:31:00 +0000

“By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change. I personally prefer jQuery to prototype. I don

AjaxCRUD - Easy Database Connection Class

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:07:00 +0000

AjaxCRUD is an open-source PHP API which allows you to connect to a mySQL database and easily perform the necessary CRUD operations (create, read, update, & delete rows). This PHP class allows you to get the access you need without spending the time and energy on lengthy coding.

Website: http://www.ajaxcrud.com/

JavaScriptMVC - Open Source Javascript Framework

max — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:09:00 +0000

JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.

Website: http://javascriptmvc.com/index.html

Make an Adobe AIR app in Five Minutes

max — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:10:00 +0000

“The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is quite a hot topic among web developers. And well it might be! With AIR, Adobe’s new desktop-based web application system, desktop applications can now be built with the technologies web developers have been using for years–plain old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do exactly that: build a simple web-based application for the desktop with Adobe AIR.”

Website: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/adobe-air-todo-list-5-minutes

Vista-like Ajax Calendar

max — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:08:00 +0000

The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) version 2 is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the mootools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

Website: http://dev.base86.com/scripts/vista-like_ajax_calendar_version_2.html