Category | ajax

We just came back from Geoweb Summit 2011 in Brooklyn. The event was energetic, and we are glad to attend the meaningful panel discussions on both technology and business strategy. As a GIS Analyst / Developer, I always ask myself the following question: "What is the next generation of legacy desktop GIS systems?" I like NY City's mashup approach to provide an answer to my question. One of the panelist, Colin Reilly, is from the New York DoITT and he leads campaigns like New York Big Apps. This is an important movement since only the government and big organizations used to exclusively handle...

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We would like to announce that OpenFlashCards.com was published today. This is a website which you can browse,create, and share multiple choice questions flash cards. The interface is simple and easy to start to create your own cards. Please feel free to create your cards. We will add more features on this website : 1. Embedding Cards in your website. 2. Community Functions such as rating system. 3. More configuration about flash cards settings. http://www.openflashcards.com/ Check these screen shots: Please give us your suggestion and recommended categories...

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I recently start learning Adobe AIR . AIR is a platform that allows you to run your web application on your desktop too. It seems there are two major ways to implement AIR: Flex or JavaScript. I downloaded a free online book from here, and I used Aptana for the IDE, but you can basically build AIR application with your favorite text editor & command-line. After my Hello-World experience, I tried to port our online AJAX dictionary. I could translate this web application in 25 minutes. In terms of coding, only one part was changed, which is url for XMLHttpRequest method. It was relative path...

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This is a simple case study that I implemented for my client with Ajax Technique. Problem: A travel company dispatchers need to look at their tour guide's schedule in one shot. Data is grouped by their job information; however, dispatchers need to look at them grouping by flight number too. Because if the arrival schedules are close enough, they want to merge two jobs in case of extra capacity in other car. Solution: At the 1st level, it groups by the job. In the second level, user paints some colors on each job to identify similar flight schedules across all different categories: Arrivals, Departures,...

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I just completed the AJAXified version of the contact page. Its really simple AJAX, not using any framework Most of the code for JavaScript is in http://www.objectgraph.com/js/sendmail.js I also played with Google Maps API to put a small map of our office location. Check it out. The code for it is in http://www.objectgraph.com/contact.html I wanted to add weather settings to the map, but NOAA service seems like broken for ASP.NET, maybe i will try it in Python :-)

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