Install IE7 RC1 in Standalone Mode
Jon Galloway has quite helpfully written a batch script that allows IE7 to be installed in Standalone Mode. What this means is that you will be able to have IE6 (which is fairly stable) and also be able to run IE7 (which is not so stable).
What does the program do?
"IE7s.exe" will create a .exe.local file. After that it will add
values to more than a thousand registry keys in your Windows Registry.
Internet Explorer 7 should start then. 10 seconds later the program
will perform a cleanup, remove all the registry keys and close itself.
It is OK to run multiple instances at once.
What does NOT work?
- Openning a new window and IE7's context menu.
- Bookmarks,
RSS reader, and the search box. The search box works if you install
IE7s using the installer. Alternatively, you can directly add search
providers to the windows registry (article coming soon). - Visiting pages that need HTTP authentication (username/password)
AJAX: Mozilla Dev Center: AJAX Getting Started
This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.
O’Reilly Code Search
This Code Search beta search engine released by O'Reilly searches through over 700 O'Reilly books which means there are over 123,000 examples and 2.6 million lines of code.
The search results page works quite well with the condensed view and the full view code options inline with the results.
The downside to the search capability is that you cannot search on topical results such as "ajax" unless it is labeled in the code itself, perhaps in the # comments # section.
SEO for AJAX
From the Search Engine Watch Forums:
"AJAX is kind of like Flash - it looks and acts kind of like a webpage,
but it's actually a program. As such, it's not search-friendly.
Like Flash, there are methods to make parts of it show up, or to
provide alternative content. Also like Flash, much of it's
functionality is based on the operation of scripting (which search
engines don't do) and streaming (which is based on the operation of
scripts).
In short, almost all of the objections to Flash apply to AJAX, even
though they are very different in other ways. Of course, many of the
benefits (engaging, useful, etc) also apply.
Bottom line, you have to plan ahead and provide alternative methods to
show content with AJAX and Flash, or build your site assuming they are
invisible and designing the site to compensate in other ways.
One possible answer to your issue is through the use of CSS activated
via scripting. The content would be hidden until needed, but in the
absence of scripting (which is what a search engine would see), all the
content would be displayed. Test it in a text only browser to see."
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The nice thing about AJAX is that a lot of times you have preloaded access to the data and are able to manipulate it on the page in such a way that you can have it there for SE's to crawl through.
AJAX: DOM based web applications
IBM developerWorks > Mastering AJAX, Part 6: Build DOM-based Web applications
Mix the DOM and JavaScript -- those perfect Ajax companions -- to change a Web page's user interface without page reloads
You'll develop a basic Web application with a user interface that
changes based on user actions -- of course, you'll use the DOM to
handle changing that interface.
AJAX Tutorial List
AJAX Tutorial List from RSS Blogger
(German site, most tutorials are in English)
AJAX Getting Started Tutorial
- AJAX:Getting Started
- AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript and XML mit Beispielen
- Rasmus' 30 second AJAX Tutorial
- How To: Learn AJAX in 20 minutes
- Take Command with AJAX
- Mastering AJAX, Part 1: Introduction to AJAX
AJAX Client-Server Communication Tutorials
- Alternate AJAX Techniques, Part 1
- Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object
- Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest
- Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and AJAX
- Instant Tutorial
- Advanced Requests and Responses in AJAXR
AJAX Drag and Drop Tutorials
- Fun with Drag and Drop with RICO
- Drag & Drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS
- Building a Drag-and-Drop Shopping Cart with AJAX
- Drag and drop tutorial (with a cool video)
AJAX Form Tutorials
- Accessible Forms and Unobtrusive Javascript
- Submit a form with AJAX
- Niceforms
- AJAX forms and autocomplete (Symfony)
AJAX Voting like on Digg.com
AJAX File Uploader Tutorial
AJAX Framework and Toolkit Tutorials
- AJAX Tutorial with Prototype
- Learn xajax in 10 Minutes
- Using AJAX with PHP and Sajax
- Developer Notes for prototype.js
- AJAX Todo List with CakePHP
- AJAX+Coldfusion
- AJAX+Coldfusion another one
- All Request, All the Time (Webmonkey)
AJAX Image Gallery Tutorial
AJAX Keyword Suggest Tutorials
- How to create the Google Suggest feature with ASP.NET 2.0
- Creating an Autosuggest Textbox with JavaScript, Part 1
AJAX Live Search Tutorials
AJAX Rounded Corner Tutorials
AJAX Sorting Tutorial
AJAX Tabbed Pages Tutorials
- Building Tabbed Content
- Make an AJAX Website in Less than 10 Minutes
- Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
- AJAX Design Patterns
- Beautiful JavaScript-Powered Pages
AJAX Tutorial Code Snippets
AJAX Mistakes
AJAX Bücher
AJAX Frameworks (unvollständig)
AJAX Debug Hilfe
Microsoft Live Writer
This is a test post from the Microsoft Live Writer Beta application. It is a stand alone program that seemingly connects with any weblog to create posts then upload them.
Apparently it has issues uploading to Blogger, and the FTP uploading of images doesn't work correctly either.
Google’s Domain Apps
WordPress Plugins
WordPress has the option to add the plugins needed, like the password protected site and the code blocks. Coffee2Code has some good plugins.
I set up a blog to test and experiment with on my parent domain http://www.ironvine.com/blog/.
WordPress uses PHP technology and a MySQL database, which I am not sure that I like. I would much rather prefer an XML file which is much more transportable. Something similar to the Sesame News RSS Feed.
For now I will most likely be keeping my main blog here and using that one as reference.
Adobe – Flex 2 Downloads
Flex Builderâ„¢ 2 with Charting
Flex Data Services 2 Express
Flex Charting 2
Free Flex 2 SDK