http://www.gen-x-design.com All Things Web 2.0 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:48:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been awhile since I've made any mention of Jaxer, and for good reason. The Jaxer team at Aptana has been hard at work getting Jaxer ready for 1.0 Release. That day has come, and I'm proud the first publicly available version of Jaxer 1.0: Jaxer 1.0 RCB. As far ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/jaxer-10-now-available-rc-b/ If you've ever used Firebug for JS development, you know how indisposable it is. If you haven't, you're insane, and you need to start using it now! Firebug Lite was created to be able to embed a more limited version of the library in non-firefox browsers. Previously, ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/firebug-lite-12-released/ While its generally not my style, I would have loved to have something like this several times in the past. Slick, easy, classy, fun, and actually worthwhile. Check it out: www.bgpatterns.com http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/bgpatternscom-cool-background-image-generator/ "Say No To IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/savethedevlopersorg-save-a-developer-upgrade-your-browser/ I know, yet another note capture / organize program... but this one's different. It's got really powerful OCR software (it will pull text from images, even handwriting) that automatically finds words in your images and indexes them, making it easier to find later. Works on the web, your ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/evernote-awesome-note-capturing-software/ Nice little suite of JS tools... they're commercial, but reasonably priced. The names kinda imply what they do: Magic Zoom, Magnify, and Thumbs. Definitely worth a look: Magic Toolbox http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/magic-toolbox-high-quality-js-tools/ Via Ajaxian: Hedger Wang has been scanning a lot of Chinese blogs lately for solutions to IE6 and memory leak issues. One of the things he stumbled upon is a pretty nifty way of nulling the objects to stop memory leaks by using the try ... finally construct. Read the article ad ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/is-%e2%80%9cfinally%e2%80%9d-the-answer-to-all-ie6-memory-leak-issues/ That's right kids, I'm speaking at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo! I'll be giving a session on server-side javascript, and how it will make your life better, your apps cooler, and your friends jealous! Read the full entry for details on the session, but here's a ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/server-side-javascript-all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-it/ As today's web applications continue to evolve and get more complex, it has become a lot more commonplace to keep a data model present inside of your javascript. You would then write various widgets, modules, or whatever that would get their data from the model, rather than querying some ... http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/make-your-data-javascript-data-model-smarter/ Stumbled across this in my pile 'o feeds... nice collection of css-based image decorations for galleries (or whatever you want). Check out the tutorial over at Web Designer Wall: CSS Decorative Gallery http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/nice-tutorial-css-decorative-gallery/