Integrating Flex into AJAX Applications...

Published by IBM DeveloperWorks on July 15, 2008.

Traditional Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) development continues to be the leading method for producing rich Internet applications (RIAs). However, the popularity of Adobe® Flex cannot be ignored. This article introduces the Adobe Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge), a code library that enables an easy and consistent method for integrating Ajax and Flex content. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to take advantage of the rich features available through Adobe Flash assets.

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Synchronizing Drupal Modules with Adobe AIR...

Published by Zend Developer Zone on May 12, 2008.

Whether you’re an enterprise developer working in a large shop or setting up a blog for yourself, you’ve almost certainly been tasked with keeping your development code in sync with some type of stable release. Whether a project is big or small, you still need to ensure that the core code you work with remains consistent. This article will walk you through the development of an Adobe AIR and AJAX application used to synchronize the modules of a site developed in Drupal, the popular free and open-source content management system used in thousands of sites across the Internet.

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Creating Accessible Web 2.0 Applications Using AXS...

Published by AOL Developer Network on February 11, 2008.

Web developers are the ultimate communicators. We often are tasked with realizing the vision of an entire team whose job is to market, promote, and service their stakeholders. But what happens when your users are limited, or even excluded from, the experience you worked so hard to offer them? Whether it be a case of reduced vision, dexterity, or hearing, a growing percentage of users experience some form of barrier to accessibility. Although helping users overcome these barriers is itself enough reason to start designing for accessibility now, a variety of other factors, including government regulation, profitability, and user perception all are important motivations to design to support accessibility. In this article, I will describe and demonstrate some of the most common accessibility features you can incorporate into your Web 2.0 applications by using the AOL AXS JavaScript library.

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OpenMail - New Mail List Service: Part 2...

Published by AOL Developer Network on January 25, 2008.

On Tuesday we completed the heavy lifting required to query the OpenMail API for new mail listings, perform some minor data transformations, and create a minimized data feed. Today we’ll write just a few lines of code to create a rich interface using Ext JS.

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OpenMail - New Mail List Service...

Published by AOL Developer Network on January 22, 2008.

Last time I showed you how to interact with the OpenMail API’s mail count service using a ColdFusion proxy and Ext JS front end. Today we’ll take a look at the new mail list service, a method used to obtain more detailed information about new mail that pops into your AOL mail.

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Classic AJAX and the OpenMail API...

Published by AOL Developer Network on January 18, 2008.

The last couple of posts, we’ve starting exploring classic AJAX development using Ext JS. Having already completed our OpenBlog reader application, we’ll apply more AJAX techniques to interact with the OpenMail API.

A few days back I wrote about using the OpenMail API in a simple server-side implementation using ColdFusion. Today, we’ll use a mix of server and client side development to update an HTML/CSS based control with the new mail count for an AOL account.

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Creating an AOL OpenBlog Reader: Part 2...

Published by AOL Developer Network on January 16, 2008.

Last Friday we created the shell of the user interface we’ll be using for our AOL OpenBlog reader application using the Ext JS JavaScript libraries. Today we’ll create a web service in ColdFusion to act as the data store.

If you’ve been following this blog for the past few weeks, you’re more than familiar with the ongoing development of the AOL.Journals CFC, a ColdFusion implementation of the AOL OpenBlog API. We’ll be using this as the core data source for the two main user interface components we’ve already developed using Ext JS, the Select a blog… combo box control and the grid control used to display blog entry information. Since method calls to the AOL.Journals CFC generally return ColdFusion native data structures, we need to write a web service to transform the data to a flexible, friendly data format, JSON.

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Creating an AOL OpenBlog Reader: Part 1...

Published by AOL Developer Network on January 11, 2008.

Following the path of working with the AOL OpenBlog API, today kicks off a two part series on creating a blog reader application using Ext JS, a powerful JavaScript library which simplifies AJAX development through the use of reusable objects and widgets.

Ext JS started as a group of extensions to the Yahoo! User Interface library (YUI) by Jack Slocum. With it’s most recent release of version 2.0, it’s one of the simplest and most powerful JavaScript libraries on the market.

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Exploring the OpenMail API...

Published by AOL Developer Network on January 7, 2008.

The recent introduction of the OpenMail API is the latest addition to AOL’s set of messaging and communication APIs. This post will walk through the process of accessing this API using ColdFusion 8.

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Controlling Access to Private AOL Blogs...

Published by AOL Developer Network on December 31, 2007.

Continuing our work interacting with the AOL Journals API, this post will demonstrate how to control access to your private blogs using the AOL.Journals CFC.

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