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Flash could be seen everywhere. Our online videos are usually rendered in flash, there are simple flash games that we can enjoy and it is used to provide a highly interactive website. Flash even beats Java in loading times. But Flash is often thought as just another eye-candy application that has become essential for online use. JavaScript on the other hand is a client side web development language that has become the pillar of an Ajax based web technique. The popularity of Ajax is obvious today because Ajax based websites, frameworks and tools are growing exponentially. More and more developers are becoming interested in JavaScript and on how to properly use their preferred web development language through the framework.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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MySql is a very powerful database application that is frequently used for websites. Because of its ability to adapt to different web languages, MySql is found almost everywhere. From the very small websites to highly complicated web based applications, MySql could easily handle the database management demands of any company or business. Although it could be used in any development language, porting the data from MySql to Ajax is a little bit of a challenge. Updating the Ajax webpage could be easily done by adding a code that frequently checks on MySql and relays the information to the client. But this will cause a bandwidth problem and data management could not be really achieved since no user input is being made. Although streaming data is very easy with the use of Ajax, you cannot just sacrifice bandwidth just to have an easy application. The use of database should have user interaction so that the data extracted is correct without sacrificing too much bandwidth.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) are RIA platforms that are usually compared to the capabilities of Ajax. Although this is a little bit unfair for these platforms because Ajax is a collection of web language and not a proprietary platform, Ajax has been heavily identified with Google especially with their release of Gears. Although Google Gears have been used by many and supported by most developers because of its open source persona, there are developers who have found Silverlight or AIR as their platform of choice. These two platforms (Silverlight and AIR) are constantly being compared especially on user experience. These platforms could provide RIA experience that’s almost unrivaled. The aesthetic experience of Microsoft and AIR is even better when you compare to most plug-ins powered by Google Gears.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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The latest version of ASP.Net is regarded as one of the best framework for Ajax today. Its ability to integrated different functions is almost second to none giving developers more functions to work with for better customization. There are also independent applications that could be integrated to the ASP.Net giving developers even more functions. The options are virtually endless when you use ASP.Net when you build an Ajax based website with this framework. However, the complexity of Ajax based applications with ASP.Net has its downsides. As we grow accustomed to complicated online applications, developers are forced to write very long codes which means complicated functions of ASP.Net will work but it will take a long time before it is actually implemented.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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One of the most important aspects in an Ajax based website is ensuring speed despite the high content within a low bandwidth setting. The connection between the client and the server should be fast and execution of command should be flawless. This is possible in Ajax based applications especially for applications that have a strong server support. Without a strong server support such as the physical properties of the server and its configuration, the Ajax based application would just be a slow application.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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Building an Ajax based application does not require the developer to know a single we development language only. Besides JavaScript, developers have to master XML, PHP and other languages that are integrated with the website. Because of the combination of web languages, Ajax based applications are a lot more difficult to built. That is why web developers are turning to different frameworks since it could help them build Ajax based applications without the hassle of JavaScript. All they need to do is to be proficient with their language and adopt a framework built specifically to their expertise. With the use of the framework, the requirement for JavaScript can even be reduced to none.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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Ajax has been long glorified as the next step for web development and this fact has been backed up by many developers and software companies worldwide. Any application that you see today aims to retool itself as an Ajax based application. Every software development tool also aims to help the developers build an Ajax based application and the number of frameworks developed to build Ajax without the need to code JavaScript is increasing everyday.
Price: Free - Updated: 07/02/2008
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Streaming information without the need from user action is one of the key features of an Ajax based application. With this feature, users will have real time updates of any information they have requested. Added to the above feature in Ajax is that the entire webpage will never be refreshed just to change the information in one part of the webpage. Because of this, users are free to interact with various parts of the website.
Price: Free - Updated: 06/25/2008
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ASP.Net has gained a lot of support lately especially when the version 3.5 was released because ASP.Net has finally integrated support for an Ajax based development. Different developers who are already familiar with ASP.Net could easily expand in building Ajax based application with this update. The ControlPanel has its own set of developer tools for developers who just wanted to concentrate on ControlPanel. Additional components were built for different reasons and have been growing in an exponential level that judging from different developer’s support; ASP.Net has become one of the most powerful frameworks for Ajax based development.
Price: Free - Updated: 06/25/2008
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Wii is the family favorite game console because of its simplicity, revolutionary user interaction and a highly competitive price. If PS3 and XBOX360 will lower their prices like that of Wii, Sony and Microsoft would be bankrupt. Wii has apparently caught everyone’s attention and their pockets and everyone wants to have a piece of that profits. More and more companies are coming out with innovations for Wii the latest of course is WiiFit. Personally I never dreamed of a day that my gaming console would eventually be my Yoga instructor but here it is right now in front of me and it is telling me to balance my body more
Price: Free - Updated: 06/25/2008
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