Brian Arnold created a fun sample drum machine simulator using HTML5 <audio>. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function playBeat() { if (isPlaying) { var nextBeat = 60000 / curTempo / 4; // Turn off all lights on the tracker's row $("#tracker li.pip").removeClass("active"); // Stop all audio …
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AJAXIAN
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It’s Friday. Play some drums…. HTML5 style
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Machsend: P2P file sharing via Browser Plus
3 Jul 2009 | 3:52 amAlex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser. It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality. I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :) -
GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts
2 Jul 2009 | 4:44 amJohn Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts. John told us: Canvas-rendering corrects GChart's most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice). Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of GWT integration, the canvas-rendering option makes GChart an excellent choice for those who want to add basic charts to a GWT application without a lot of fuss. To access these features, you'll… -
More than you ever want to see about encoding
2 Jul 2009 | 3:03 amPaul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings. Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way.... as he talked about en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in short order. -
GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs
2 Jul 2009 | 1:02 amAs preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the content from the URL and analyzes it. It then finds geographical locations in the text and disambiguates them (for example to skip names like "Jack London" and not consider it the city London). Finally you get it back as XML. The annoying thing is that Placemaker only support POST request and does not have a…
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AJAX BLOG
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Get A Free Copy Of Sarah Lacy’s Startup Book
24 Jun 2009 | 4:39 pmTechCrunch Editor Sarah Lacy’s book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good came out in paperback edition earlier this month. We posted some of the new Twitter history that she included in a new chapter included in this edition a few weeks ago. You can buy the book here. But since most of you are way too cheap to actually pay for a book, we’re going to give away 15 signed copies for free (postage included!). Here’s what you have to do - retweet this story using the retweet button at the bottom of this post (or just click here) by midnight California time tonight. -
Adultery Rampant Among South Carolina Governors. This Must Be Craigslist’s Fault
24 Jun 2009 | 4:09 pmAnother public official of South Carolina shames himself: Governor Mark Sanford is extremely sad that he got caught cheating on his wife. The video is here, the transcript is here. Bottom line, he says “I’ve been unfaithful to my wife.” Read all about it everywhere. All I’m wondering is, where’s South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster when we need him? Adultery is serious business. This is clearly, somehow. all Craigslist’s fault. For example, how do we know that Sanford didn’t meet his mistress in the adultery section of Craigslist? And also,… -
Video: Apple’s Awesomely Improved iPhone Remote App
24 Jun 2009 | 3:42 pmI like the Apple TV as a device, but it’s remote is awful. It’s the same little dinky white one that used to come with all Apple computers a few years ago. While it’s pretty good for using the FrontRow feature on a computer, your computer also has a keyboard for navigation and things like searching — the Apple TV does not. And so the white remote by itself is painfully slow navigating the Apple TV. But with an update to both the Apple TV and its Remote app available for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple has completely revamped the way you can navigate the system using… -
Evan Williams, Ron Conway, And Caterina Fake Invest In Web Typography Startup Small Batch
24 Jun 2009 | 2:32 pmStealth startup Small Batch has raised an undisclosed round of equity funding from True Ventures with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, WordPress/Automattic Founder Matt Mullenweg, renown investor Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Josh Felser and Dave Samuel participating. Small Batch is launching Typekit, a service that lets designers to build sites with web-native typography. Small Batch was co-founded by Jeffrey Veen, who was one of the founding partners of Adaptive Path and project lead for Measure Map, the well-received web analytics tool that was… -
The Onion Finally Weighs In On The Iranian Situation “Ruining” Twitter
24 Jun 2009 | 2:22 pmMore than a few people have left comments on our Twitter posts related to the Iranian situation wondering if they weren’t really articles by the satirical site, The Onion. Here are two that come to mind, Twitter Reschedules Maintenance To Allow Iranian Protests To Continue and Bush Advisor: Twitter Founders Should Get Nobel Peace Prize. Well, The Onion finally has one of its own. And as you might expect, it’s good. The post is short, sweet and to the point. But the best parts are the fake quotes by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey: “Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant,…
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AGILE AJAX
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Elements of Testing Style
3 Jul 2009 | 6:28 amCover image from Amazon.com It's been way too long since I blathered on about style issues. Today I'd like to talk about testing style. This article assumes you are already writing tests and already using something approaching a Test-Driven Development process -- I'm not here to argue about process, at least not today. Today the topic is the actual construction of individual tests, how to name them, how to group them, where to get data from and the like. I suspect I'll think of five more things right after I post this, so look for an update sometime in the future. The update will also address… -
Aesthetics and Web Design
2 Jul 2009 | 9:51 amPatrick Lynch over at A list apart has just written a great article about the role of aesthetics in web design. In it, he specifically deals with the question of how much of a role visual aesthetic design should play in the design of web sites. To answer the question, he delves into the somewhat controversial notion of visual decision making--the idea that aesthetics can help users in their decision making and aid in general website usability. The article is written in response to assertions made by one Jakob Nielsson, who, citing numerous eye tracking studies that his team has performed… -
Asterisk-Java Testing with Groovy
2 Jul 2009 | 7:03 amRecently I have taken a bit of a detour into the world of telephony, working with Asterisk-Java, which by itself is a very valuable tool, and worth knowing a bit about if you are integrating a system with Asterisk. While it is a Java-based library, I am integrating it into a Grails application. We have a fairly comprehensive suite of unit tests asserting that desired behaviors are triggered upon certain events initiated through the Event API. This is made even easier, as usual, with Groovy-- specifically on the testing front. Here I show two hypothetical test cases, followed by supporting… -
3 Misuses of Code Comments
1 Jul 2009 | 6:44 amPhoto Credit: by dpascoe Not many people talk about good practices to use for comments in code. Many people see them as an extra or freebie, so not a lot of thought gets put into them. The truth is, though, that comments are a great tool for giving insight into the thought process when the code was being written. Unfortunately like any tool, comments can be misused. Here are three of the most common misuses of comments which I tend to run into. 1. Commenting the Obvious A.K.A. Superfluous Comments A good rule of thumb for comments is to not comment on what the code is doing, but why it is… -
Fluently NHibernate
30 Jun 2009 | 8:50 amFluent NHibernate is an extension of the widely used and very popular NHibernate framework for Microsoft .NET. It is an open source framework that sits on top of the NHibernate layer and utilises all the core NHibernate methods. This framework provides an alternative to the standard XML based mappings (.hbm xml files) of NHibernate. It lets you define the NHibernate mappings in strongly typed and concise C# code. For those who are new to NHibernate, here is more information. Traditional NHibernate XML mapping <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> …
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Planet Nitobi
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Nitobi Games: Cannon Head released and BOOST is now free
Our second iPhone / iPod Touch game, Cannon Head has finally been approved, and as a promotion we will be selling the game for 50% off (99¢) until June 30th. To celebrate the release, we are also putting out BOOST for free. We have our third project on the way, which is aimed to go [...] -
Not all webkits are equal, stories of reading code
Recently, there’s been concern over the state of WebKit on Android. If anyone has ever used the WebView, people realize that it doesn’t have gears. However, once you look at the source code of the Browser in Google Android (You can actually do this), you realize very quickly that it’s not an issue with the browser, it’s an issue with the Shared Library not being loaded. Now, currently I don’t know if the current SDK would support the NDK-style JNI required for PhoneGap to do this, but it should be coming in Donut. However, I want to know when HTML 5 is coming to… -
Open Web Vancouver
Open Web Vancouver was pretty awesome this year. The Pirate Party keynote by Rickard Falvange was awesome, and really was a solid follow up to Zak Greant’s talk on “The Age of Literate Machines”. Given the current climate with people fighting against more oppressive copyright, I really liked how relevant it was, and how it tied to the Civil Rights movement. The second keyonote talk was also really well put together. I saw Angela Byron’s “Women in Open Source”, and it was interesting to see how many other people were shocked as to how few women were in Open… -
Released: Open Web Vancouver 2009 Schedule for Android
I’m going to be speaking at the Open Web Vancouver 2009 conference, and after visiting Google IO and seeing their app, I decided that I would try out something similar with PhoneGap. Now, the purpose of PhoneGap is to produce applications that work like Native Applications fast. This means that the app has to not have the tell-tale signs that it’s running in the browser, and be just as fast, if not faster than it’s Browser-based counterpart. It also should have access to everything the HTML5 Spec has access to. Since a schedule doesn’t need Geolocation, or… -
Nitobi Games launched!
Nitobi Games is a portal dedicated to iPhone / iPod Touch (and Android in the future) games that we will be making. Our first game BOOST has been added to iTunes App Store, and our second game Cannon Head will be ready soon.
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AJAX MAGAZINE
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10 Ways To Increase jQuery Performance
24 Jun 2009 | 4:28 amNettuts+ have a new tutorial by Giulio Bai about increasing jQuery performance in your Ajax Apps. 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance provides 10 tips to make jQuery usage faster, to use with moderation especially for the first tip. This article will present ten easy steps that will instantly improve your script's performance. Don't worry; there isn't anything too difficult here. Everyone can apply these methods! 1. Always Use the Latest Version 2. Combine and Minify Your Scripts 3. Use For Instead of Each 4. Use IDs Instead of Classes 5. Give your Selectors a Context 6. -
dhtmlxVault v1.3 Released, DHTML JavaScript File Upload component with Progress Bar
24 Jun 2009 | 4:14 amdhtmlxVault (DHTML extensions File Uploader) helps you to implement a modern and feature-rich file uploading part of your web application. So much wanted, the Progress bar will inform your customer about the ongoing process during a long-time operation. Different file types are displayed with the corresponding icons (you may add more file types when required). Built with AJAX technology, the control allows files to be uploaded seamlessly without reloading the entire webpage. Version 1.3 introduces many new features : - PHP support (with progress bar) - now you can use progress bar with pure… -
Ajax Libraries Usage for .NET developers
24 Jun 2009 | 3:46 amSimone Chiaretta, Italian .NET developer, architect, Microsoft MVP, have made a survey last month about Ajax Libraries usage and found that jQuery is the most used Ajax/JavaScript library among .NET developers with 71.4%, followed by Ajax Control Toolkit with 58.8%, then the ASP.NET Ajax library with 44.8%. Simone have done similar survey on 2007 and the difference with this year is very interesting : jQuery marked the highest gain with 437.2%. Ajax control toolkit gained 18.5%, while ASP.NET Ajax library lost -39.3% ! Something interesting also noted in this survey concerning commercial 3rd… -
JavaScriptMVC Framework
22 Jun 2009 | 2:13 amJavaScriptMVC 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. JavaScriptMVC's focus on Model View Controller concept allows : Separate business logic from user interface for a highest maintainability Better organize your JS code and load on the fly the scripts as needed by the code keeps your application light as possible and loads with fewer HTTP requests Usage of your favorite JavaScript library, whether Prototype, jQuery, Mootools,… -
Phototype, Image Manipulation With PHP And Prototype
21 Jun 2009 | 4:45 amAjaxorized have an interesting javascript library to manipulate images using PHP GD and prototype. Phototype could be used to resize, rotate, flip, drop shadow, or to add special effects on any photo such make it sketchy, greyscale, adding caption ... etc. Phototype supports chaining, and you can write something like : l_oPhoto = new Photo().load("test.jpg").dropShadow().flipH().makeSketchy(); document.body.appendChild(l_oPhoto.fetch()); Original photo Photo manipulated with Phototype Phototype is released under GPL license and available for download here. More information and usage samples…
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AJAX MATTERS
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Handling Complex DataTypes using ASP.NET AJAX
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The JDA Revolution
Synopsis: As the amount of logic implemented in javascript increases in response to demands in accessibility and client-side functionality, the opportunity for foot-shooting has increased exponentially. JDA is a nimble, kevlar-booted javascript message-passing kernel which manages communication between separate javascript modules and enforces that modularization. JDA stands for Javascript Dataflow Architecture. It is an open standard developed by MAYA Design Inc. Benefits of ModularizationOne would think that the Object Oriented revolution would have resulted in a sufficient modularization of… -
Dealing with Long Running Processes in ASP.NET
Introduction. Whether we use Ajax or not, if it is a very long running process the browser may show a time-out error. In case of ASP.NET AJAX if we use a script manager then we also have to define the time-out for the request which can be difficult in the scenario where we cannot predict how long a process will take to execute.In this article we will discuss about this issue and how to use Ajax to handle long running process by using IAsyncResult and ICallbackEventHandler. Web applications are based on a client-server architecture, so when the client hits the server the server will reply. If… -
Update Multiple Page Elements Using The XMLHTTPRequest Object and JavaScript
In the development of Ajax application many times we will encounter following issues. The requiremnt to update multiple text boxes simultaneously. Fill more that one dropdown list. Update a combination of text boxes, dropdown lists and div tags. Call different web pages and different webservices at the same time. Imagine the case of a financial data site (such as a stock market info site) with various regions of the page used for displaying data any taking user inputs. We may want to populate fill numerous div tags, textboxes and dropdown lists with real time data. If we loop the several… -
Creating an AJAX-Enabled Grid using ICallbackEventHandler (Part 2)
In my previous article of Ajax enabled grid using ICallbackEventHandler I outline the creation of a grid with the following operations Sort the grid in ascending or in descending order by clicking on the arrows next to a column name. Change pages of the grid. Change page length of the grid. In this article we will discuss editing the grid with the principal goal of doubleclicking on a grid cell to enable editing of that cell then edit the content of the cell and finally update server side data without refreshing the page. The key advantages of this grid are as follows Data will be bind to…
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COMPONENT ART
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Let us know what you want!
25 Jun 2009 | 12:49 pmComponentArt UI Framework 2009.2 Beta is now available for download. It includes the much-anticipated Scheduler control for ASP.NET AJAX as well as a number of new Silverlight controls.While the first preview of 2009.2 is out, there is plenty more development going on. In fact, now is your opportunity to choose exactly which features you want to see added! Here is how:Download the beta version. (You will have to sign up for a free account if you haven't already done so.)Make sure to change your account preferences to indicate that you want to take part in the Beta Tester Program.Within a… -
ComponentArt Gauges for Silverlight *Sneak Preview*
22 Jun 2009 | 4:51 pmComponentArt is pleased to announce a sneak preview of Gauge for Silverlight! We have been working hard to bring you a flexible, themeable and customizable gauge control that delivers the same outstanding visual quality and ease of functionality that our ASP.NET AJAX gauges deliver. Theming ComponentArt Gauge for Silverlight has very robust theming capabilities that allow you to customize the visual display of your gauge in almost any way that you can possibly conceive of. Because Gauge has its themes defined entirely in XAML (vs. programmatic design), every visual element can be… -
$10,000 for the Best Silverlight App!
22 Jun 2009 | 11:39 amOk, this should be a lot of fun! ComponentArt has just announced the official beginning of the 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition. Starting immediately and throughout the summer (until September 22), developers can submit their Silverlight applications for evaluation by our Expert Panel and the developer community. The author(s) of the "best" application, as decided by the Expert Panel and the community, will walk away with the grand prize of $10,000 USD. Authors of the two runner-up applications will each receive ComponentArt licenses (a $1,299 USD value). How the Winner… -
Web.UI ASP.NET Grid: Synchronize Checkbox States with Row Selection
15 Jun 2009 | 5:00 pmOne can use the Grid's itemBeforeCheckChange and itemBeforeSelect client events to synchronize the state of checkboxes and row selection. Some extra logic is required since checkbox clicks also trigger row selection. I use the load client event is used to initially set all checked rows as selected. The code here I used on the Grid Editing - Client Mode example, after adding DataField "Discontinued" as a boolean ColumnType="CheckBox" GridColumn. ASPX: <ComponentArt:Grid id="Grid1" ...> <Columns> <ComponentArt:GridColumn… -
AZGroups Scott Guthrie Event 2009, Phoenix
2 Jun 2009 | 8:31 amLast week I had the pleasure of attending the annual AZGroups event in Phoenix, Arizona headlined by Scott Guthrie of Microsoft. Other speakers included Tim Heuer, Jaime Rodriguez (on WPF) and Glenn Block (on MEF). All the sessions were very informative and the event overall was extremely well organized. I had a great time in Scottsdale and even got to participate in the goings on by presenting our new SOA.UI framework: You can see the rest of the pics from the event here. A big thanks to Scott Cate, Joseph Guadagno, and the rest of the organizers! Share this post: email…
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AJAX LESSONS
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Tutorial on Creating a Tabbed Content Browser - published on Smashing Magazine
25 Jun 2009 | 4:32 pmOur article on how to build a tabbed content browser has been published on Smashing Magazine ( a site with great resource for webdevelopers ). They share useful information about the use of module tabs in webdesign and web-based applications, including best practices, examples, tutorials and scripts. Module Tabs are great to present content in a compact manner. Module Tabs provide navigation. They provide the ability to navigate alternate content views. See a showcase of well designed tabbed navigation. Don’t forget to check out our easy to follow beginner-level tutorial, you can learn… -
10 Business Reasons to Use AJAX
9 May 2006 | 9:14 amOver at Agile Ajax the author has posted 10 business reasons to use Ajax. The reasons consist of: ASP’s with existing applications. ISV’s that have products with web-based interfaces. ISV’s that have products without web-based interfaces. ISV’s whose products can now be ASP’d. E-commerce. Financial services. Tool makers. Infrastructure providers. Community site providers. Content providers/Media. I’m not sure where on the hype curve we are with AJAX, but one of the open question for businesses is: why and where should you consider using AJAX? I give… -
60 More AJAX Tutorials
9 May 2006 | 9:03 amMax Kiesler has updated his site with another 60 tutorials from around the web. These 60 tutorials are an addition to his current 30 that he gathered a few months ago. Look for some new Workshops coming from AjaxLessons.com with in the next few days. With the popularity of AJAX growing every day I’ve had the opportunity to collect and try out many more tutorials in the last several months. These examples and how-to’s represent the best tutorials that I’ve personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of the overall group. This post is intended for… -
AJAX Activity Indicators
17 Mar 2006 | 10:33 pmOver at NappyFab.com the author has posted a bunch of animated Ajax activity indicators. There are images for both light and dark backgrounds. Check them out Technorati Tags: Ajax, Indicators -
Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web response
17 Mar 2006 | 10:27 pmOver at the IBM developerWorks website a new tutorial on Ajax and DOM has been posted. Like many Web programmers, you have probably worked with HTML. HTML is how programmers start to work on a Web page; HTML is often the last thing they do as they finish up an application or site, and tweak that last bit of placement, color, or style. And, just as common as using HTML is the misconception about what exactly happens to that HTML once it goes to a browser to render to the screen. Before I dive into what you might think happens — and why it is probably wrong — I want you need to be…
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TOPIX: AJAX NEWS
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Holland area auto supplier, BBi Enterprises Group, closing down this month workers say
1 Jul 2009 | 2:19 pmAuto parts manufacturer BBi Enterprises Group has all but shut the lights off and locked the doors of its manufacturing plant at 13370 Barry St. -
Billy Talent's Ben Kowalewicz
28 Jun 2009 | 6:53 amFestivals are great a ' an entire day of music, hanging out with like-minded people , and enjoying the sunshine. -
Ontario parts plant closes ahead of schedule
26 Jun 2009 | 6:52 amAn auto parts facility in Ajax, Ontario that supplies to Chrysler, General Motors and Toyota will close almost two months earlier than initially expected, resulting in a blockade by its unionized workers. -
Workers blockade Ajax auto parts plant
24 Jun 2009 | 6:50 amAJAXA blockade continues at an auto parts supply firm in Ajax, which has told its workers it is going out of business. -
Affordable housing keeps families together
23 Jun 2009 | 12:30 amCharles Sutherland didn't want to lose his daughters, so he created a vision: affordable housing in Markham.
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GOOGLE: AJAX SEARCH API BLOG
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Introducing the Virtual Keyboard API
22 Jun 2009 | 12:07 pmIt is often difficult for Internet users to input text in many non-Latin script-based languages for a variety of reasons. The correct keyboard layout may not be installed on the computer they're using - sometimes such a layout may not be well developed or widely available. This poses a challenging problem for web developers because there is no way they can ensure that their users have access to this very basic input technology. Our Transliteration API can help, but requires that the user know multiple languages.Right on the heels of introducing support for translating Persian (Farsi), we've… -
Ext-core ready to go
11 Jun 2009 | 9:35 amRecently, the guys over at Ext JS released ext-core under an MIT license, which was a big win for open source! Today, they released a stable (non-beta) version of this library and we are proud to be part of that announcement by hosting the new version. You can now pull ext-core from Google servers:// directly access ithttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ext-core/3.0.0/ext-core.js// alias the newest 3.0.x versionhttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ext-core/3.0/ext-core.js// alias the newest 3.x.x versionhttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ext-core/3/ext-core.js// directly access the… -
Arabic Transliteration added to the AJAX Language API
8 Jun 2009 | 12:23 amLast year we launched the Transliteration API as an addition to the AJAX Language API. This gave users the ability to transliterate (the process of phonetically converting words from one script into another) text into several Indic languages using a normal English keyboard.We're happy to announce that we've now added Arabic to the list of supported languages. Now, you can allow your users to easily input Arabic-language text into any text field or text area on your web page without switching to a non-Latin alphabet keyboard - just like on the Labs page. For example, if the user types… -
AJAX Custom Search Gadget on Blogger
1 Jun 2009 | 10:06 amThe AJAX Search gadget for Blogger is now available to all users on Blogger.com. This gadget accesses a Custom Search Engine (CSE) that is created automatically for your blog and provides search results inline, with the look and feel of your blog. You can get all this with just a few clicks from the Blogger control panel.One cool feature of the gadget is the 'Linked From Here' feature that searches the pages you've linked to from your blog posts. As you create new posts, we automatically update your search engine to include all the linked pages, as well as all the pages linked from your link… -
Easy as 1-2-3 - introducing Google Web Elements
27 May 2009 | 11:54 amToday at Google I/O, we launched Google Web Elements with one goal in mind - making life easier for developers. Google Web Elements make it incredibly simple to add Google products to your site, app or blog. It's so easy, you'll feel like you're cheating. Inspired by the convenience of embeddable YouTube videos, Google Web Elements allow you to add products like Google Custom Search, Google Docs, and Google Maps to your website with the simplicity of copy and paste. For instance, here's the new Google News element:Each element is designed to help you get started quickly without spending time…
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There and Back Again
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Adding Supr urls to your site
30 Jun 2009 | 10:19 amOver the last couple months I had a chance to help create a great new product for Stumbleupon. Su.pr lets create short urls, publish directly to Facebook and Twitter and gives you great tracking and statistics around them. Su.pr also helps you get more traffic by making it easy to get your content in front of the Stumbleupon community. Last week we launched our API which lets you integrate shorten and post functionality into any site or application. Today we are adding the ability to use your own domain for shortening. This lets you have urls like http://joshuaeichorn.com/9OPL so your readers… -
Hbase fun
12 May 2009 | 2:04 pmFor the last couple weeks I’ve been working pretty heavily with Hbase. It decidedly has different usage patterns then Mysql, but since I don’t often get to use anything relational in Mysql because of performance reasons it hasn’t been to hard to wrap my head around. Of course having an Hbase committer a couple desks over has helped the process a lot. So far the biggest issue has been getting access in PHP, we use thrift for that but the raw API leaves a lot to be desired. Luckily it wasn’t too big of a job to wrap things. Now I get joys of schema-less tables, atomic… -
Blog fixing
8 May 2009 | 3:41 pmJust realized enscript isn’t installed on my server anymore so all my posts with highlighted code examples were broken. Sorry about that, fixed now. -
Webthumb Status Update
11 Feb 2009 | 3:27 pmThere was an Webthumb outage yesterday, the main server Kernel Panic’d and didn’t reboot properly. DNS was switched to the backup server, and for most users there was no noticable change. However there was a bit of database skew between the 2 servers so some accounts weren’t available on the backup. Because of this all webthumb usage on the backup server won’t be charge to your accounts. It also won’t show up in your history so if you need a thumbnail after the cut back please open a ticket and I will grab the files for you. (You can also grab them directly by… -
Webthumb Updates
21 Jan 2009 | 9:17 amI haven’t been actively blogging as of late, this is not likely to change, but here is some quick Webthumb news. The PHP apiwrapper has been updated, there have been some API updates but nothing recently. One important item is that is uses version switching in the request to improve error handling. You can grab it from svn or from the download page. Since webthumb is now running on 2 physical servers pricing, I’m spending less on Amazon aws services this has allowed me to reduce prices. For volume purchases you can get credits at $1.25 per 1000.
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Prototype JavaScript framework - blog
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Prototype 1.6.1 RC3: Chrome support and PDoc
16 Jun 2009 | 3:21 pmToday we’re announcing Release Candidate 3 of Prototype 1.6.1. Among the highlights of this release are official Chrome support, improved IE8 compatibility, faster generation of API documentation with PDoc, and lots of bug fixes. Chrome support Since Google Chrome is a close sibling of Safari, Prototype has had excellent Chrome compatibility ever since the browser was first released. Now we’re making it official: Prototype supports Chrome 1.0 and greater. If you have Chrome installed on your system (Windows only for now, even though early alphas exist for Mac), invoking rake test will run… -
Prototype 1.6.1 RC2: IE8 compatibility, Element storage, and bug fixes
27 Mar 2009 | 4:33 pmToday we tagged the first public release candidate of Prototype 1.6.1. (What happened to RC1? Long story.) While there are more minor fixes we’d like to get into this release, we decided an interim release was necessary because of the final release of Internet Explorer 8 last week. This is the first public release of Prototype that is fully compatible — and fully optimized for — Internet Explorer 8’s “super-standards” mode. In particular, Prototype now takes advantage of IE8’s support of the Selectors API and its ability to extend the prototypes of DOM elements. What’s new? -
Sprockets: Beautiful and angular
19 Feb 2009 | 5:59 pmOver at SvN, Sam announced the 1.0 release of Sprockets, the new dependency management and concatenation tool that makes it easy to modularize your JavaScript. Sprockets is Prototype’s new build system, but it’s also been extracted into a Ruby library so you can use it anywhere you write JavaScript. There are many great ways to use Sprockets in your own projects. You can use it the way Prototype does — split up your JavaScript into small, maintainable files, then create “meta-files” that include the smaller files in a logical order. Prototype had previously been doing this with… -
Pimp My Code #1: Element.Storage
16 Feb 2009 | 12:41 amMan, it's quiet around here. Interested in doing some pimpin'? WAIT! COME BACK. Code pimping. You know? The thing I'd discussed before? Forgive my earlier informality. I see now how my words could have been confusing. The very first edition of Pimp My Code is special because the code we’ll be looking at will be included in Prototype 1.6.1. (It's a bit like if we were to Pimp [someone's] Ride™, then decide to keep the car for ourselves.) So this is more than just an academic exercise for us — the “pimped” result is now part of the Prototype source code. The Original The code in… -
Prototype Linkedin Group
17 Oct 2008 | 12:32 amWhen we first launched the Linkedin Prototype Group, we weren’t necessarily expecting it to be such a success–it’s over 800 members strong and counting. Also, at the time, there wasn’t much you could do after having joined the group. This has changed with the recent introduction of discussions. One of the first posts spurred some thoughts about the usefulness and goals of this Linkedin group especially given the high quality of our new mailing list. (And let me take the opportunity to sincerely thank T.J. Crowder for all the effort he’s put into it.) My initial reaction, based on an…
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jQuery Blog
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jQuery Conference 2009: Dates and Venue
2 Jul 2009 | 10:01 amGood news everybody! The dates and venue for this year’s jQuery Conference have been determined. The conference will be held September 12th and 13th at Microsoft Cambridge in Boston, MA. This will be a 2 day conference with multiple tracks on each day. We’re in the process of planning out the schedule, talking with speakers, and setting up the conference web site. Watch the jQuery blog or jQuery Twitter feed for notification when registration opens. While this venue is larger than those that we’ve had in the past (Harvard Law School in ‘07 and the MIT Stata Center in… -
This Week in jQuery, vol. 8
15 Jun 2009 | 11:03 amAnother week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web. If you have ever used a regular expression tool to highlight character matches in real time, then you’ll jump for joy when I tell you about the Interactive jQuery selector tester written by Samuli Kärkkäinen. You enter a selector expression, and in real time you get to see the elements in the DOM structure that have been selected. I can see this being very handy for complex expressions or for optimizing expressions down to the simplest solution. Also, in case… -
This Week in jQuery, vol. 7
7 Jun 2009 | 5:14 pmAfter a long hiatus, I’m happy to present another roundup of jQuery happenings. Keep in mind that this is just a small, fairly random sampling of what has been going on. For more frequent news and announcements, be sure to follow @jquery on Twitter. jQuery Updates Brandon Aaron has been writing a series called “jQuery Edge” on his blog, detailing some of the cool enhancements in store for the next version of jQuery. His most recent, New Special Event Hooks, describes the four “hooks” that make up the new custom event API: setup, teardown, add, and remove. -
This Week in jQuery, vol. 6
1 May 2009 | 7:35 amAnother week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web. One of the most interesting happenings this week was the release of Glimmer. Glimmer allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by harnessing the power of the jQuery library. Without having to hand-craft your JavaScript code, you can use Glimmer’s wizards to generate jQuery scripts for common interactive scenarios. Glimmer also has an advanced mode, providing a design surface for creating jQuery effects based on your existing HTML and CSS. Also… -
This Week in jQuery, vol. 5
17 Apr 2009 | 6:11 amSorry about the unplanned hiatus last week. Not sure how long I’m going to be able to sustain this, but here we go again with another weekly roundup of jQuery news… jQuery + Server-Side Solutions A common complaint in the earlier days of jQuery was that there wasn’t enough information on how to integrate jQuery with server-side languages (or frameworks), so it’s nice to see a proliferation of tutorials in this area. Here are a few of the recent ones: ColdFusion: Validating Common Email Domain Misspellings using ColdFusion and jQuery. Incorporates the Autocomplete…
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Ext JS Blog
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Tree Grid, Grouped Headers and Aggregation Rows - Ext GWT 2.0 M3 Released
15 Jun 2009 | 9:30 amThe Ext team is pleased to announce the availability of Ext GWT 2.0 M3. M3 will be the last milestone release. We will be releasing a release candidate before the final release of Ext GWT 2.0. Many thanks to the early adopters in the community that have been using 2.0 and reporting bugs. -
Building a Rating Widget with Ext Core 3.0 Final and Google CDN
10 Jun 2009 | 8:40 pmWe are very proud to announce the final release of Ext Core under the MIT license. Your feedback was invaluable. Thank you for all the bugs reported and test cases created. For those of you who are new to Ext Core, we suggest you read the previous blog post about the all the features and examples that we released as part of the beta. -
Ext JS 3.0 RC2 Release - Stable, Robust, and Enhanced
2 Jun 2009 | 10:52 pmWe are pleased to announce that the latest release candidate of Ext 3.0 is now publicly available. We are very proud of the stability of this release. We'd like to thank our support team and elite community members who have tested the release candidates. You have assisted in squashing a number of bugs affecting both Ext Core and Ext JS. The time taken to report issues and create test cases is much appreciated. -
Implementation Spotlight: Zipwhip and Ext JS
27 May 2009 | 5:20 amWith close to 100 billion text messages sent every month in the U.S., text messaging has clearly become a communication medium many of us have come to rely on. Zipwhip, a text messaging utility for the web with a polished Ext-based user interface, aims to take texting to a new level. The team at Zipwhip were eager to share their enthusiasm and approach to building with Ext. -
Ext GWT 2.0 Milestone 2 Released
20 May 2009 | 8:43 amThe Ext Team is happy to announce the availability of Ext GWT 2.0 Milestone 2 available for immediate download. Ext GWT 2.0 M2 is packed full of new components and features, expanding on the Ext GWT 1.0 feature set. Included in this release, are several performance improvements which noticeably improve initial render and layout execution times.
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Yahoo! User Interface Blog
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Graded Browser Support Update: Q3 2009
2 Jul 2009 | 11:04 amThis post announces an update to Graded Browser Support. The GBS page on the YUI site always has the most current information. This post includes a list of changes, the updated chart of browsers that receive A-grade support, and our GBS forecast. The discussion section breaks out some of the strategy behind the current GBS update. GBS Changes for Q3 2009 This GBS update adds A-grade support for Firefox 3.5 and for Safari 4.0. A-grade support is discontinued for Firefox 2, Opera on Mac OS X, and IE6 on Windows 2000. With this update, Windows 2000 drops from the A-Grade testing matrix and the… -
Enhancing YUI-based Applications With Audio
30 Jun 2009 | 9:41 amAboot the author: Scott Schiller (@schill) is a front-end engineer on Flickr who joined Yahoo! in 2005, hailing from Canada. SoundManager 2 is one of his personal side-projects. As Flickr’s self-professed resident DJ, he can be seen playing at the occasional Web 2.0 party between tinkering with time-lapse videos and photographing things for sharing online. Scott’s experimental DHTML site is updated sporadically. In this article, Scott shows you how to use SoundManager to tie sound effects to specific user actions or events in YUI. Sound is one of the major senses and a major part… -
In the Wild for June 29, 2009
29 Jun 2009 | 10:07 amThe big news from the YUI team last week was the release of YUI 3.0.0 beta 1, moving YUI 3 one important step closer to GA. What follows is some of the other news coming from the YUI community over the past few weeks. As always, please use the comments section to let us know what we’ve missed. Timr — a New Timetracking Web-app with Significant YUI Elements: Thomas Einwaller wrote in to tell us about Timr, a new time-tracking web application with a slick, rich, YUI-intensive interface including Panels, DataTables and much more. If your job requires you to track time-on-tasks, and… -
YUI 3.0.0 beta 1 Available for Download
24 Jun 2009 | 3:35 pmYUI 3.0.0 beta 1 is now available for download from YUILibrary.com. This release takes YUI 3 out of its preview phase and brings its APIs to a near-final state. For those intending to implement YUI 3, the 3.0.0 beta 1 release is a good place to begin the transition. If you’ve been working with the latest preview release, George Puckett has provided a comprehensive 3.0.0 beta 1 changelog to guide you. We look forward to hearing your feedback as you begin working with 3.0.0 beta 1, and we’ll work hard to address that feedback as we prepare for a GA release in the coming months. -
Flash SOL: Persistent Data with Local SharedObjects
23 Jun 2009 | 2:05 pmAbout the Author: Alaric Cole has been working in Flash since the advent of ActionScript and is currently a developer on Yahoo!’s Flash Platform team. You could say he’s grown with the language. Sure, he’s had his hand in independent film. Yeah, he wrote that one book. But his weekday ritual is still fooling about with Flash. When he’s not crouched over a computer, you might find him riding brakeless in the Mission. I’ve been working with Matt Snider of Mint.com to develop a new local storage utility for YUI. The utility will use a cascading storage system to…
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MooTools
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MooTools Roundup - June 2009
24 Jun 2009 | 6:59 amThe foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but its all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins that have been released recently. Slideshow 2 Slideshow 2 by Aeron Glemann is an outstanding photo / slideshow plugin that offers a plethora of options and features — many more than you’d find with the average slideshow or lightbox. Slideshow 2 features Robert Penner easing transitions, photo delays, duration settings, the ability to make Slideshow 2 a lightbox,… -
The Dollar Safe Mode
22 Jun 2009 | 8:39 amSince the dawn of time, MooTools used a method named to get an HTML element by it’s id or direct reference. This method name, being the coolest and shortest you can find in JavaScript, is also used by a number of other javascript frameworks and libraries for similar functionality. Now, we do not think including 2 libraries or frameworks is OK. It’s not. Never. It’s an overhead of duplication you do not want to have. However, you might not have the full control of the page in some circumstances, and we recognize that. That’s why we implemented this: Dollar Safe Mode™. -
MooTools 1.2.3 Released
19 Jun 2009 | 2:32 pmToday we give you what will likely be the final release of the MooTools Core before the jump to 2.0. While MooTools 1.2.3 is primarily a bug-fixing release, MooTools 1.2.3 also introduces an important new feature: Framework compatibility mode. The value in making this change is allowing developers to use more than one framework within a page (which is NOT something we recommend or endorse, but we recognize this is not always under the developer’s control). Not relying on the dollar function prevents the need for jQuery.noConflict() when using jQuery and MooTools together, for example. -
Faces of Moo: Represent Your Framework!
29 May 2009 | 7:05 amLast week we announced that MooTools merchandise was available for purchase. We’ve seen a great response to the announcement and we’ve received a solid amount of orders. Thank you for your continued support! Now it’s time for us to show you our appreciation. The MooTools team would like to announce Faces of Moo. Faces of Moo is where we post photos of you and fellow community members wearing your MooTools shirts, hats, and hoodies. What better way to strengthen the MooTools community than by showing its talented members wearing their Moo colors? What do you need from me? -
MooTools Merchandise Available!
20 May 2009 | 1:08 pmDue to popular demand, we’ve made available a bounty of new MooTools merchandise available for purchase in the United States and Europe. New items include: T-Shirts Hoodies Laptop Bags Hats You can purchase these stylish items at: http://mootools.net/merch Feedback wanted! Can you think of merchandise you’d like to see in the MooTools store? Be sure to let us know in the comments below! What are you waiting for? Grab your MooTools merchandise and represent your framework! Note: The above link will attempt to send you to the correct store based upon your location. If the above link…
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SproutCore
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Geoffrey continues his popular Sproutcasts with a new episode on...
30 Jun 2009 | 1:40 pmGeoffrey continues his popular Sproutcasts with a new episode on properties, key-value coding and observers. Check it out on Vimeo. Also, if you want to be notified of the latest Sproutcasts when they first come available, follow @sproutcasts on Twitter. -
One key element of the talk I give on SproutCore is talking...
25 Jun 2009 | 12:18 pmOne key element of the talk I give on SproutCore is talking about Cloud Applications vs Web Apps and Desktop Apps. I’ve put some of this material on the wiki. Check it out: What is a Cloud Application » -
SproutCore at AJAXWorld
21 Jun 2009 | 10:54 pmI’ll be giving a talk and possibly on a panel or two at AJAXWorld in NYC on Tuesday. My session is at 5:15. Don’t miss it! It’s going to rock. If you are in NYC and want to meetup give me a shout out on twitter (@okito) or email (charles @ sproutit.com) SproutCore Session at AJAXWorld » -
Geoffrey Donaldson is working on a series of screencasts...
14 Jun 2009 | 2:37 pmGeoffrey Donaldson is working on a series of screencasts covering the new SproutCore 1.0 code base. He just posted the first episode, covering installing and creating your first app, on Vimeo. Give it a look and tell him what topics you’d like covered in the future. Watch the video » -
SproutCore WWDC Dinner
11 Jun 2009 | 12:02 amThe SproutCore dinner tonight was great. Thanks everyone who came. It was great to see/meet all of you. If you have pics, post’em and send’em our way. We’ll put them up.
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Google Web Toolkit Blog
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Come hear about GWT at the Googleplex tomorrow night (June 16, 2009)
15 Jun 2009 | 6:36 pmFor those of you in and around Silicon Valley, I'd like to invite you to see my Google Web Toolkit presentation titled "GWT Overview and Feature Preview" at the Silicon Valley Web Java User Group. I'll start with an overview of current GWT features and functionality. Towards the end I'll cover some of the features you can expect to see in GWT 2.0, many of which you can try out now if you don't mind creating your own builds. Of course there will be plenty of time for Q&A and some time to network with other developers in the community. The meeting will be in the usual place on the Google… -
GWT Community Updates
11 Jun 2009 | 5:04 pmCommunity announcementsGilead GWT adapter for Google App Engine: Bruno Marchesson, creator of the Gilead (aka Hibernate4GWT) library, has created another adapter - this time for GWT applications running on App Engine. It is still in its early stages, but this may be useful to those looking to build their applications using GWT and Google App Engine and who don't mind hammering on fresh code.Vaadin 6 (formerly IT Mill Toolkit) releases: The IT Mill team has come out with the latest release of their toolkit built using GWT technology. Vaadin offers a different take on Ajax application… -
New GWT App Gallery posted (check it out)
28 May 2009 | 9:30 amA couple months ago, we asked the community to tell us about their GWT applications and their experience developing them. We were greatly pleased to see many responses, and lots of neat applications. In fact, we had so many responses that we needed a better way to showcase and share them with the community.Introducing the new GWT Application Gallery to save the day, now posted on the GWT homepage. Improving on the earlier GWT Application Gallery, the new gallery adds more features to make community interaction easier and application entries more meaningful. Here are some of these new… -
Google API Libraries for GWT - May 2009 Release
7 May 2009 | 3:22 pmBy Eric Ayers, Google Web Toolkit TeamWe are pleased to announce updates to the Google API Libraries for the Google Web Toolkit project. The Google API Libraries for GWT project allows GWT developers to access some of Google's popular JavaScript APIs. This release contains new bindings for two libraries:Google AJAX Loader API - Allows dynamically loading an API from GWT code Google AJAX Language API - Provides translation, transliteration, and language detection services These libraries each come with sample code and Javadoc documentation.In addition, other libraries have been… -
GWT and Maven - Playing Nicely Together Since 2008
4 May 2009 | 1:55 pmStudyBlue is an academic social networking application, built with GWT, that helps students study smarter, faster. To manage the build process during the development of their application, the StudyBlue team uses the Maven build system. Chris Klundt and Hicham Bouabdallah from StudyBlue have kindly dropped by to share their tips on getting GWT and Maven to play nicely together.Maven is a great resource that allows developers to enable dependency management within their GWT web applications. While a complete description of Maven's dependency management is beyond the scope of this article, we…
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Ajax for the Real World
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SmartGWT EE 1.2 is Now Available!
1 Jul 2009 | 10:39 amSmartGWT EE is now available for download. New in this release: Many new examples, covering custom DataSource implementations, Batch Upload, and various scenarios of adding business logic Eclipse project files for each sample project, for one-step Eclipse setup Download it today! -
SmartClient 7.0 Release Candidate available
21 Apr 2009 | 7:53 pm[UPDATE: a second RC is now available on the download page] At last, a release candidate of SmartClient 7.0 is available. Download it here: SmartClient LGPL 7.0 RC1 SmartClient Pro 7.0 RC1 SmartClient Enterprise 7.0 RC1 What do we mean by release candidate? We are at zero critical bugs according to internal testing, we are in code freeze and will only be fixing newly reported bugs as well as adding and updating documentation and samples. We expect the RC period to last roughly two to three weeks. If you plan to move your application to 7.0 any time in the next 6 months, you should… -
SmartGWT Enterprise Edition available
24 Mar 2009 | 11:39 amThe first release of SmartGWT Enterprise Edition is now available. Download it here. Check out the Showcase here. What is it? SmartGWT Enterprise Edition (SmartGWT EE for short) is to SmartGWT what SmartClient Enterprise Edition is to SmartClient - an enterprise version of the product that includes Java Server side functionality, additional tools, and a classic commercial license in lieu of the LGPL. For teams with existing Java functionality, SmartGWT EE provides greatly accelerated integration with SmartGWT’s visual components. In many cases it is possible to take existing Java… -
Open for Service
20 Mar 2009 | 4:40 pmIsomorphic Software has been providing world class consulting, support and training services to top enterprises since before SmartClient was released 2001. That may be a surprise to some of you because there has never been a description of these services on our company website. However, things have changed, and we’ve gone public with our service offerings. We have created a Services page to describe all of the professional services that Isomorphic provides to help teams take advantage of the power of the SmartClient framework. Do you need enterprise support from the very… -
SmartGWT 1.0b2 Now Available!
27 Feb 2009 | 1:19 pmWe are pleased to be able to announce SmartGWT 1.0b2 is now available. [For an overview of SmartGWT see this blog post.] We’ve been working closely with Sanjiv to improve stability, add features and respond to developer feedback and are very pleased with the progress that’s been made with this release. Highlights include: GWT 1.6 M1 and M2 support Chrome, Firefox 3.1, and OSX hosted mode support complete support for WebServices (WSDL) A new lightweight Enterprise Gray skin Improved javadocs also, Numerous additional Features, Performance improvements, API enhancements and bug…
