http://ajaxorized.com Web Innovation Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:28:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Then you should definitely attend Kings of Code, an annual coding event in Amsterdam. The event will take place at June 29/30 2009 in Tuschinski. Some great speakers will be there as well: Joe Stump - Lead architect Digg.com Francisco Tolmasky - Creator of Cappuccino & Objective-J Steven Pemberton - Chair W3C XHTML2 ... http://ajaxorized.com/are-you-a-king-of-code/ Hi Everybody! It's been a while since I updated ajaxorized, sorry for that. I've been busy with my startup Yunoo, read more about it in English here: http://thenextweb.com/2009/03/04/qash-becomes-yunoo-and-launches/ Besides that, I started the Twitter-based braintainment service Twitbrain which has been quite a success (Techcrunch, Mashable). Hopefully I can start writing some funky javscript-code ... http://ajaxorized.com/its-been-a-while/ It's been a while, but a new piece of Javascript is here to add some dynamics to your web-page. SmoothCounter is a script that enables you to count between 2 numbers (with a given precision) in a given period of time. Click here for a demo. Usage: var counter = new SmoothCounter('count-div', ... http://ajaxorized.com/now-thats-a-smooth-counter/ Often, users navigate the same way through web pages. When considering this, you are able to optimize the users browsing experience by preloading web pages that are likely to be clicked next. I coded this tiny piece of javascript that loops through your hyperlinks, checks if "load" is in the ... http://ajaxorized.com/speed-up-your-users-browser-experience-preloading-hyperlinks/ Finally, the new version of the dateslider is available. Some changes: I moved the project to google code. From now on this will be the place where you can enter your bugs and feature requests and download the script. Besides this, there is some documentation available We fixed number of bugs ... http://ajaxorized.com/dateslider-improvements/ Prototype contains a number of functions that can be very useful in walking trough your DOM structure. Let's look at a short example. Suppose we have this piece of HTML: Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 First group Option 1 Option 2 Second group Option 3 Option 4 Using up(), down(), next() and previous() we can find our way easily ... http://ajaxorized.com/magic-domwalking/ Lately I had same crazy thoughts on coding a javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. I decided to do some test which eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by ... http://ajaxorized.com/phototype-image-manipulation-with-javascript/ Update (July 13): Please mind that there is a follow-up post Update (May 17): I am planning to move this project to Google Code. I received some nice improvements, so it would be good to form a team and develop this project further to fix all the bugs that are still ... http://ajaxorized.com/introducing-the-sliding-date-picker/ The following code (using prototype) prevents bots stealing the emailaddresses used on your website. Instead of including the emailaddress directly, use a div with a classname where the email-address needs to be placed: Hi Bot! My email address is <div class = "email_here"></div>!! Catch me if you can! Then, use javascript ... http://ajaxorized.com/another-creative-way-to-prevent-bots-from-stealing-your-email-addresses/ I know we are a bit late, but all the best whishes and geekluck in the year 2008! http://ajaxorized.com/happy-new-year/