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plan to send this newsletter once every couple of months. It will be a
combination of industry articles and company news, and we hope it will
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We're excited to announce the release of Complete UI,
our suite of seven feature-rich, cross-browser Ajax components.
Building on our popular Grid and ComboBox components, Complete UI
provides you with easy-to-implement tools to build advanced
and user-friendly web apps, without dealing with convoluted frameworks
or a steep learning curve.
Nitobi's Complete UI suite is made up of the follow Ajax components:
The Complete UI suite is platform agnostic and works with a variety of development frameworks including Java, PHP, ASP.Net, .NET and Coldfusion MX.
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For the past nine months, we've been slaving over drafts of "Enterprise
AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications", our
new book from Prentice Hall.
It's 552 pages of
strategies, tips, tricks and case studies for building great
enterprise-class Ajax-powered Web applications. It's not
available in stores until May, but here's a preview of Chapter 3 -
"Ajax in the Browser".
In the previous chapter we have learned about all the core technologies that comprise the Ajax 'stack'. We also learned a little bit about how these components of Ajax fit into the traditional Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm which will enable us to think critically about the architecture of an Ajax application in a common and familiar way. In this chapter we are going to learn how to integrate Ajax into our web applications.
Read the whole chapter on Nitobi's site (PDF).
Here at Nitobi, we're blogging fiends. Here are a few of our more popular entries from recent weeks:
Dave: Ajax Deleting
"So often it is the case that when a person deletes some data - like a
photo tag in Flickr for example - the application insists on confirming
that the user really wants to delete the item. This kind of interaction
is really annoying when you are deleting several items from a list or
even just one when you are a 'power user'."
Alexei: Development Diary: Taming the Fisheye
"A Fisheye menu is specifically designed to support browsing through
long lists of menu items. The Mac OS X Dock is a popular example of a
fisheye menu, but they have been studied in HCI circles for years."
You can subscribe to one uber RSS feed for our four blogs.
Each month in our newsletter, we plan to highlight an industry article that we like. Hopefully you'll like it too. This month we found this great introduction to Firebug, a super handy Firefox extension for web developers:
FireBug is a Firefox extension that includes web development tools such as editor, debugger, error console, command line and inspectors for debugging. With FireBug, you can edit, debug and monitor CSS, HTML, Java Script, and Ajax live in any web page.
Visit AdGlobe Tech to read the whole article.
If you're going to be at any of these upcoming events, please look for us:
March 16, 2007 - Today Andre is at ApolloCamp, a one day conference hosted by Adobe covering everything you need to know about getting started with building Apollo applications using Flex.
March 19 - 21, 2007 - Andre will be attending and speaking at AjaxWorld. He's speaking March 19 at 2:20pm on "Web Usability in the Enterprise".
May 8 - 11, 2007 - Dave and Andre will be at JavaOne and Dave is speaking on "Practical Parallels: From Development on the Java Platform to Development with the JavaScript Programming Language" on Wednesday, May 9th at 6:30pm.
May 15 - 18, 2007 - Dave will be in Paris (lucky!), attending and speaking at XTech 2007. His talk is 9:00am on Thursday, May 17, and his topic is "Pragmatics of Declarative Programming in Web Development".