QED Wiki and the Zend Framework

October 5, 2006 by Oliver · 1 Comment
Filed under: Computers, Javascript, PHP, Programming, Technology, Web Programming 

IBM are working on an impressive looking product called QED Wiki, developed with the Zend Framework.

Fundamentally it’s a wiki like any other. But there is a cool layer on top of it that could be revolutionary (although like many Web 2.0 concepts will probably fall short and just be “cool” – we can hope). The interface allows you to create “situational applications” that can link different components together with the ease of a wiki.

It doesn’t really make much sense just reading about it so go watch the video about it.

On a related note, you can now get snapshots of PHP 6.

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Audio in Linux

July 22, 2006 by Oliver · Comments Off
Filed under: Computers, Javascript, Programming, Technology, Web Programming 

I’ve started writing the page to actually play the audio clips in my language learning app. At the moment it loads the Windows Media Play plug in. This obviously won’t work on Linux so I have to ask, how do you play media files in a web browser when not on Windows?

Flash would be the obvious answer I suppose but I have an uncommon requirement – I need to be able to access the object via Javascript. Specifically, I need to know when a track is finished and the next one begins (from a play list) and none of the freely available Flash media players do that.

Any advice from anyone?

Linux, audio, media, music, Flash

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Yet another XML based AJAX toolkit

June 29, 2006 by Oliver · 1 Comment
Filed under: Computers, Javascript, Programming, Technology, Web Programming, XML 

Jitsu is another AJAX toolkit. Like Backbase and Atlas it supports an XML based declaritive format that is parsed by JavaScript and converted into real HTML.

This one is open source and free.

Jitsu, ECMAScript, XHTML, Atlas, Backbase

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ASP.NET Atlas really is like Backbase

June 22, 2006 by Oliver · Comments Off
Filed under: Computers, Google, Javascript, Programming, Technology, Web Programming, XML 

It turns out that ASP.NET might not suck after all. Atlas for ASP.NET is a toolkit for doing AJAXy stuff.

Well in fact it is quite a bit more than that. It has many features of the Google Web Toolkit (except in ASP.NET instead of Java) including serializing server side objects for use client side use.

Interesting it also has a lot in common with Backbase. It allows you to embed some nifty XML to define a user interface which is then interpreted by the Javascript to render real (X)HTML.

The final irony is that it’s pretty much free. Since it’s .NET, to really use it you need Visual Studio, but the Atlas part itself is free and should be perfectly usable with the Express version of the Visual Studio projects.

ASP, ASP.NET, AJAX, Javascript, XHTML, HTML, .NET, dotNet

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Another Firefox cleverity

June 3, 2006 by Oliver · Comments Off
Filed under: Computers, Javascript, Programming, Technology, Web Programming 

Cleverity? Something that is clever. If that word really exists I should get an award.

A lot of people love Firefox and seems to thin that loving it is “obvious”. This is despite the fact that it just eats up memory. Not only that but it keeps it regardless (if you minimise most programs on Windows they free up most of their memory).

There are uses for it, most of them for developers. The DOM explorer and JavaScript debug consoles are absolute necessities. But another cool feature I’ve found is “View Selection Source”. Highlight part of a web page, right-click and you can view the source just for that bit. Yay :)

Firefox, browsers, DOM

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