How long have you been waiting for this? A step by step tutorial on integrating Google Maps into your web application using Ajax. He starts out with an introduction to the Google Maps API. After this, he delves into more advanced techniques for adding dynamic markers, etc using ajax. Interesting article. By far, the simplest I’ve seen without making use of some already existing library. John Ferguson Smarta Writes: …we will discuss how you can easily implement dynamic interactive maps on your Java web application, using the Google Maps API for the web interface, and Ajax to provide real-time interaction with the server.

Just in case you ever need to do this Arrays to MySQL dates and back. Simple conversion functions to change MySQL dates to arrays, arrays to MySQL dates.

WebTTY is an interesting package. During my internship I actually had to do something like this. My employer didn’t appreciate a pre-packaged solution though, so I had to produce all the code myself.[ ]1 The WebTTY package allows any Linux terminal processes to be controlled in a text area HTML element on a webpage. The output from the server process is collected on server side, and is send to a text area element.

Jeff Croft Writes: But there was a mindset created in the 90s that anyone could make a web page. That line of thinking led bosses to direct secretaries and copy editors to produce corporate sites and a whole wave of self-proclaimed “designers” to start selling their services as web professionals. That is so true. And like Jeff, I was one of them. Fired up my copy of Frontpage or Adobe Go Live and I was good to go.

When developing production sites for clients with little/no HTML experience this is a must. If your web contract does not include maintenance fees, then this is something that you simply must do in order to have your users freely update their websites. It’s a structure which is simple enough to develop and implement. Alejandro Gervasio at DevShed writes: Setting up the Foundation for an Extensible Website Engine with PHP 5

I’ve actually been meaning to try this myself, well a variation of it. I would , however be comparing these speeds from a C# Application performing data access to the SQL Sever 2005 or MySQL backend. Based on these tests it seems that I’d be better off with an ASP.NET connection, since this will be running on a windows environment. I will definitely take Karl’s tests into consideration as I perform my own.

Victor De la Rocha Writes This is just a cut and paste job: http://www.econsultant.com/web-developer/ajax-tutorials/ Check out the rest : http://www.econsultant.com/ultimate-web-developer/index.html

Peter’s Gekko : Pragmatic OOP in JavaScript Getting started is no big deal. At first sight you just start typing ahead pretending to write in C#. But there is no compiler or unit testing to validate your work; not until the code is interpreted at run time. As you can do horrible things in JavaScript it does take a lot of discipline to write good code. Also because the language itself is not as strict as C#.

About.com is having a coding competition. Ajax is the topic. So all you Ajax guys out there, this is where you flex your muscles. Give it your best shot, rules at the bottom. One thing I find funny is that they actually allow the use of third party scripts and libraries. This makes this challenge quite interesting in the sense that developers don’t need to code much from scratch. This allows their real coding skill and creativity to go towards making the application better on a whole.

Well, it’s not really downtime, but I apologize none the less. It just hasn’t been the same since I got back from vacation. I’ve had virtually no time to myself to make any productive posts. There have been issues with school, with computer access, internet access, etc. As a result I decided instead of posting sporadically, I’ll simply wait until I can dedicate the amount of time that needed to this blog.