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Interactive Barcode, Cool jQuery-Based Online PortfolioDecember 17 2008

Alexandre Plennevaux pointed us to a jQuery-based online portfolio of the the photographer Lisa Pram. The interface is a specific design approach to online image galleries aiming to produce an integrated graphical product based on the work itself. The result of this search is an "interactive barcode", generating a unique representation of Lisa Prams work in a non-metaphorical manner, through indexing of her image sets according to four main keywords, which stand for the main areas of her work - Professional, Experimental , Advertising and Editorial.

Clicking on each of them allows the visitor to filter through her image galleries. Each gallery is represented by a line which thickness reflects the number of images it contains - 1 image is 1 pixel width. This simple principle leads to the barcode representation. Clicking each of these lines unfolds its pictures in a continuous strip inside the barcode, thus introducing the user into the colors and contrasts of her work.

Finally, an additional navigation system is laid out underneath the barcode, to ensure that this interface website, although experimental, achieves a good level of usability. The interface was entirely done with progressive enh

Aptana PHP Development Environment Released for PHP, Ajax and Cloud ComputingDecember 13 2008

Provides Unprecedented Combination of PHP, Ajax and Cloud Development Features

Aptana, Inc. today announced the long anticipated 1.0 version of Aptana PHP, an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP application development. Aptana PHP extends Aptana Studio, the popular Eclipse-based IDE for Ajax and Web development that is on track to exceed 2.8 million downloads before year-end. Combined, Aptana PHP and Aptana Studio provide unprecedented ease for developing, deploying and maintaining Ajax and PHP applications.

Aptana PHP features the core things one would expect from an integrated development environment, but does more for novice, intermediate and expert PHP developers alike. Code assist and instant syntax checking features simultaneously support PHP, Ajax libraries, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS so that you can code faster with fewer errors. Use the internal PHP server that's part of the Aptana PHP installation, or another PHP server of your choice to preview your PHP pages in any of the multiple Web browsers built right into Aptana Studio. Save significant time through automated PHP code and PHPDoc generation features. Refine your code quickly via integrated PHP debugging and refactoring tools.

Redline, jQuery Powered Racing GameNovember 22 2008

Vertigo-projects have a new and amazing racing game powered by jQuery and using the GameQuery plugin. The game itself is about one thousand lines of code, but you will need some practice to not shift too early or to avoid crashing. It's interesting to see the level of applications that we can build today using modern javascript libraries such as jQuery. The design is pretty attractive to run a level or two, have a look and enjoy the race http://www.vertigo-project.com/projects/redline-game.

DHTMLX Ajax Components Suite Updated - Version 2.0 Brings Simplicity to Web Interface CreationOctober 14 2008

St. Petersburg, Russia, October 13, 2008 - DHTMLX (dhtmlx.com) is pleased to announce the update of its dhtmlxSuite, a complete suite of Ajax-enabled components for building rich web interfaces. Version 2.0 brings a new approach to building application interface simply by arranging its modules via newly introduced dhtmlxLayout control. It not only allows developers to effortlessly construct interface structure, but also provides the possibility to easily compose DHTMLX components into a single layout.

The current release also includes important bug fixes and performance improvements together with unified skins and better mutual integration of the components. DHTMLX v2.0 introduces some new components such as:

dhtmlxLayout

A simple and affordable way of arranging elements of interface structure visually on page is now available through a new DHTMLX component - dhtmlxLayout. It provides a good deal of ready-made Layout patterns that can be applied to sophisticated web applications. The possibility to integrate other UI components from DHTMLX line into dhtmlxLayout panels easily is one more significant feature of this innovation.

dhtmlxAccordion

A new Accordion component is able to display several parts of content using multiple panes. The content displayed in each pane may vary from te

Ajax Multi-Player Blackjack GameSeptember 3 2008

AWC Blackjack is a multi-player blackjack game under development but currently available for testers to give feedback and help improving the game. The back-end game server is entirely written in PHP, and the front-end is pure AJAX. Only about 33K to download at the moment (excluding graphics).

The game doesn't use any JavaScript framework so I think there is a lot to do in addition to some graphic design work. But the demo plays great for blackjack fans. Tested with FF 1.5 and later on winxp, FF2 on Linux and IE6,7 winxp.