Mibbit: the IRC web interface
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
A friend was looking through Ajaxian and found Mibbit, a recent IRC web application in the world of AJAX. Remarkable things: /whois command, the smilies, tab completion for nicknames, typing notification, auto-away feature, and more.
The idea is nothing original, what is interesting is the execution of the idea. In my opinion, Mibbit is a lot more attractive to the common Java chat interface, and it seems an embedded version of the client will be available in alpha soon! You can read more about Mibbit, in the blog.
I wonder if the developer of Mibbit will provide some way to customize the interface, and extend the standard functionality of IRC beyond chat, and private messages. I can imagine a plugin that allows file transfers from 1 user to all, or between users; for example.
Trouble with jQuery Ajax load() method
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
When you do a search on google with the title of this post as the keywords expecting to get some light on a problem you have been banging your head for some hours; it is most likely you won’t find a solution. The first reason is that jQuery does rock, and the second is that the documentation for the load() method is very clear. So I’m writing this to make a stop in time and try not to forget this small observation.
As part of a side project of mine, I’m coding a small app with CI as the php framework and jQuery as the js one. Problem is: I’ve been trying to Ajax load some content without success for some time.
Entendiendo Ajax a prueba de balas o Bulletproof Ajax
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
En los últimos años, los desarrolladores web hemos estado escuchando frecuentemente el término Ajax debido a aplicaciones como Google Maps, Basecamp y Google Analytics. Sinceramente, yo preferiría algo más familiar como Maestro Limpio. (^-^)
Para tener una perspectiva más amplia sólo basta con ir a Ajaxian y ver la gran cantidad de aplicaciones desarrolladas con esta técnica. Sí, es una técnica, manera o forma de hacer las cosas.
Learning AJAX
Friday, August 11th, 2006
Why did you decide to learn AJAX? For the hype, I guess. It just popped out everywhere, and I got this old application (in JSP) with some serious design problems (which when you make an app in just a weekend as part of school homework, but that will be used to solve a real problem, it’s pretty obvious that there will be not problems but nightmares…) needing solving ASAP (red flag warning).
I remember some years ago watching a XMLHttpRequest demo: the object graph dictionary. And I said: “Nice, looks cool”. Then, at some point in the space-time dimension (I need to do something about my memory problems…sigh) google maps came out. My impression: Wow! But that was it. Still didn’t knew much about why using AJAX was a good thing ™ and I did not see a need to use that kind of stuff in the applications I was working on.