What’s New in HTML5

August 3rd, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

If you live in the DFW area and you’re not coming to our meetings, you’re missing out! These aren’t “user groups” per se, but more like a get together where we cut up and have fun. Last night’s was an especially good time. Then we do the after-party at the bar!

The Ajax News was not recorded this time, but it was based on existing presentations from Google IO. The latest and greatest in HTML5 have landed in the Google-backed Chrome, which has surpassed the Apple-backed Safari as the browser introducing the most cutting edge features. Safari, Firefox, IE, and Opera better put it in high gear if they want to keep up.

http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/html5-whats-new/template/index.html#1

http://www.htmlfivewow.com/slide1

NOTE: These presentations must be run in Google Chrome 12+. Also, you may need to enable some features, like audio in the about:flags.

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Video: Webpage Design Basics for Non-Designers

July 18th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

Designing-Web-PagesPosted is the video and presentation of web design for non-designers. We cover a lot of basics, including logo design, layout, fonts, and color theory.

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Simple and Easy JavaScript Inheritance

June 14th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

For object inheritance, I had been using the traditional method of assigning methods and properties to the function’s prototype. Because my project was relatively simple, I could get away with this for a while. But as the project grew in scope, using the prototype started proving unwieldy. It worked, but the code was getting messy and hard to read. I decided it was time to implement an inheritance system. Not too complex, just something to help me organize my code. I ended up creating what I call my Declare Inheritance Helper.
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Video: Hype Animation Tutorial

June 13th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

hype-example New goodies are posted! First, I gave a tutorial of the Hype HTML Animation App. You can see the video here, and you can see the final results here.

And we also have Bob doing the Ajax News, where he focuses on an interesting blog and topic, The 11 JavaScript Mistakes You’re Making.

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Next Meeting: Hype Demo

June 3rd, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

The next Club AJAX meeting will be next Tuesday, June 7th. We’ll demo the new Hype animation tool, do Ajax News, have some give-aways, and finally a code Q&A.

Yes. The Dallas Mavericks are playing game 4 of the finals that night. We looked at changing the date, but that didn’t work – the Mavericks wouldn’t cooperate and move the game to Wednesday… something about TV schedules and 20,000 ticket holders.

Hence we’ve opted for an easy-going meeting, but it should still be fun! And I will have the Mavs game queuing up on my DVR and will be racing home to see them win!

GO MAVS!!

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Presentation: Why You Need a Front End Developer

May 12th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

I had the good fortune to be invited to speak at the DFW JavaMug last night, and created a presentation based on one of my more popular blogs, Why Your Company Needs A Front End Developer. Instead of addressing managers or decision makers, this one was geared toward server side developers. The premise is simple, though difficult: before hiring a second (or another) server side developer, make sure you have a good front end developer in place — and don’t try to do it all yourself. Telling an end-to-end developer that he shouldn’t do it all turns out to be in conflict with human nature and business. Often these are developers who are trying to please, and looking to be the “go-to guy”.

Regardless, the web is changing, thick clients are becoming more common, and front end technology is getting more complex. It’s harder to be a generalist, and it’s time to start thinking about specialists.

See the presentation here.

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Video: HTML5 Video and Canvas Demo

May 10th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

Donald Smith gives an excellent demo on HTML5 Video and Canvas. He first converts video into a canvas object, then manipulates the pixels, creating some simple special effects. The group was very impressed at this functionality. VIDEO HERE. Demo files included.

Bonus Video: Bob Byron risks death by giving us the latest events in the Ajax world! VIDEO HERE.

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Video: A Conversation About REST

April 12th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

“Nobody implements REST correctly”, said Dr. Roy Fielding, the inventor of REST.

But Jeremy Brown will help you get close. He explains what REST is and also presents a variety of topics and questions you will certainly come across while implementing your API.

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Video: Database Query with a drag-drop UI

April 11th, 2011 by Mike Wilcox

Marvin Elder demonstrates his DHTMLX enabled interface that does database queries via a user interface.

See the video here.

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RESTful Web Services and Weed Trimmers

April 5th, 2011 by dsmith

By guest author Donald Smith Jr.

I was standing in the local home improvement store staring at all of the choices available for yard trimmers. Since it is spring, the annual tradition of assessing my lawn equipment needs for the season has me frustrated that it is the year 2011 and the technology available to cut weeds still sucks. My problem is that I have bought many yard trimmers over the years including gas, cordless, and corded trimmers. Each one has advantages and disadvantages.

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