AJAX Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest AJAX Jobs and Info http://www.ajaxreporter.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:04:18 -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=14313 Sergey Chikuyonok gets his Philips Ambilight foo on as he created a HTML5 video + canvas sample that mimics the TV effect.As the video runs, a snapshot is sent over to JavaScript land where colors are worked out:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: function getMidColors(side) {        var w = buffer.width,                [...] Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14314 I just finished doing some talks on geo hacking (slides are available here) and how to use some of the Geo technologies Yahoo and Google provide as part of a University gig in Atlanta. As a lot of the students liked the idea of APIs like GeoPlanet and Placemaker but had a hard time getting [...] Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14299 modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScriptRuby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr:modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which is does static analysis to [...] Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14286 [Image] This past week's new mashups in our mashup directory combined 28 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google OpenID, Heyzap, Menu Mania, Microsoft adCenter, RescueTime, RPX, Windows Live ID Web Authentication and Yahoo Search Marketing. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Facebook and Google Ajax Search. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Security (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Video (3 APIs, 3 mashups). Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14283 I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: var $;YUI().use('*', function(Y){  $ = Y.get;  for(var p in Y) {      $[p] = Y[p];  }}); // test$('body'). ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14274 Works even in IE6Love that quote from the color picker over at RaphaelJS land. This plugin by Dmitry Baranovskiy gives you an easy color picker in short order:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: var icon = Raphael("picker", 23, 23).colorPickerIcon(11, 11, 10); icon.attr({cursor: "pointer"}).node.onclick = function () {    document. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14277 A Textmate bundle for running Lint on Javascripts from the bundles menu. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14267 Andrew Hoyer shows his canvas Fu with Cloth, a great experiment using nice physics.What makes this simulation special is the speed at which everything is computed. Javascript (the language this is written in) is not exactly the most efficient language for this type of computation. This being said, much time was spent squeezing out every [...] Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14250 EnhanceJS is a new library from the Filament Group, who are serious about progressive enhancement and accessibility.What is EnhanceJS?EnhanceJS is a new JavaScript framework (a single 2.5kb JavaScript file once minified/gzipped) that that automates a series of browser tests to ensure that advanced CSS and JavaScript features will render properly before theyre loaded to the [...] Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=14244 Thomas Fuchs gave a presentation titled “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Flash” at WebStock. It is often hard to grasp a presentation from slides, but this one is great fun to flip through.This one really hits home:We were surprised to see how JavaScript was NOT the bottleneck in Bespin when we first prototyped it.And, this [...] Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500