AJAX Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest AJAX Jobs and Info http://www.ajaxreporter.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:01:14 -0500 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/logo.jpg http://www.ajaxreporter.com Feed provided by AJAX Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest AJAX Jobs and Info. http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11450 In the “oh wow, I didn’t know JavaScript could do that” category, I just came across a cool new jQuery plugin called jParallax which implements a parallax effect on selected elements. Now, I’m not ashamed to admit not knowing what “parallax” meant so I looked it up on Wikipedia which totally added closure to the [...] Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11451 Last week I wrote a simple WhereAreYou? application that used the Google Ajax APIs ClientLocation API to access your location via your IP address.At the same time, we announced support for the Gears Geolocation API that can calculate your address using a GPS device, WiFi info, cell tower ids, and IP address lookups.Add to all [...] Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11452 John has announced the Firebug 1.2 final release. As well as just supporting Firefox 3, there are some quality improvements:The Script panel (the JavaScript debugger), the Net panel (network monitoring), and Console panel have all seen considerable updates. They’re all much more performant and have a huge number of bug fixes.Specifically the Console panel has [...] Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11438 Some of the best Javascript effects I’ve seen to date. Reasonable CPU use, works in FF3 and Safari (but not IE6). Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11439 A example of introspection in Javascript. Way cool. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11443 Thats right, a free pass! We are raffling off one free pass to The Ajax Experience show in Boston, September 29 October 1. That means that you can attend the $1495 event for free, courtesy of Ajaxian.com.Theres no catch. We are giving away one free pass to The Ajax Experience. The free pass only [...] Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11444 Razor Profiler is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally, and was created by Coach Wei who has done a lot of work [...] Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11445 Jacob Seidelin finishes up his binary meme with a post on reading image metadata with JavaScript via a library that groks EXIF data.It tries to detect the format of the image file and then reads the header and pulls out information about dimensions and color depth among other things. If the EXIF data library is [...] Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11446 John Resig is a machine. Not content with dividing his time between working on jQuery and working on Firebug, he’s also got another few irons in the fire.Just for kicks, John has created a standalone selector engine called Sizzle. It’s not quite ready for prime time yet but it looks very promising. It uses the CSS syntax that has helped make jQuery such a popular library. ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=11421 Several bloggers high and low took a great deal of heat for publishing a rumor yesterday that the Mormon church was looking into purchasing or acquiring social networking giant Facebook. WinExtra, The Industry Standard, Inquisitr and VentureBeat all covered the rumor that seemed to originate from Zach Klein and Brady Brim-DeForest.Zach Klein said on his blog:I heard from an employee close to the deal that the Mormon churchs genealogy business made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook. ... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500