March 2006 Archives

30 AJAX Tutorials »

Max Kiesler put together a good list of some AJAX tutorials to get you started: Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials...

Facebook.com turned down a $750 million offer »

The owners of the privately held social-networking site hope to fetch as much as $2 billion. And media giants like Viacom may make a good match Facebook, the Web site where students around the world socialize and swap information, has put itself on the block, BusinessWeek Online has learned. The...

Yahoo! User Interface and Design Patterns Libraries Released »

First, there's the Yahoo! User Interface Library. The UI Library is a set of JavaScript components that let you quickly add all kinds of really nifty features to your web site, from dynamic UI elements like drag and drop, tree views, and animation; to underlying functionality like custom events and...

JSEclipse for AJAX site development »

JSEclipse is the the best and most popular Javascript plugin for the Eclipse environment. Its benefits are visible from the simplest tasks like editing small sections of code for your site to the more complex ones like working with the next big AJAX library or developing plugins for a product...

Firefox 2.0 alpha set for release »

A developers' version of Firefox 2.0 targeted for release Tuesday evening aims to test the back-end infrastructure supporting the browser's new bookmarks, or Places, functionality. Firefox Roadmap Firefox 2.0 alpha set for release...

Microsoft releases ATLAS for building AJAX websites »

Much earlier than anticipated, Microsoft announced the release of Atlas this afternoon at MIX 06. For those who don't know, Atlas is Microsoft's AJAX API for ASP.NET 2, which they claim will greatly reduce the effort in developing AJAX style applications on their platform. (from slashdot)...

VCU Calendar XML Feed »

The VCU Events Calnedar now has a customizable XML Feed. This gives you the opprotunitiy to include your department's events directly into your site. This can be on the homepage or a special events page. Here are a couple example pages. You can see how to do this to your...

Meeting Minutes for March 7. 2006 »

Here are the topics covered: - The VCU Blog upgrade - The Calendar XML Feed - Tutorial - The myVCU Portal - The Web Content Management System View the presentation and hear the audio. Also you can subscribe to this feed in iTunes (or another podcasting program) and listen to...

New Blog for Web User's Group »

I created this new blog so you can stay informated about what goes on. I will post here about various things web related. I will post some non-VCU stuff as well to keep it interesting. So put this feed in your RSS reader or in the myVCU portal to stay...

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