[AJAX Magazine] Digg Moves to jQuery's JavaScript Library

PHP Magazine - Jun 23, '07 3:04am

Exciting times for the jQuery project, Digg is now using jQuery for their DOM, Ajax & animation needs. The switch came with the new comments section, where all animations are now powered by jQuery. The new system completely took advantage of plugins to build out the system. These included Klaus Hartl's jQuery cookie plugin and Ken Stanley’s FlyDOM for jQuery and totally validates the quality of the work being produced by the jQuery community. Having Digg as a user really bolsters to project's image and assures jQuery's place as one of the top JavaScript libraries available. Its a very big development for the team and the project. Via Rey Bango.

Probably the coolest, technically speaking, portion of the new comments is the manner in which most of the page is created. No longer do we create static HTML in PHP and send you a huge HTML page. Instead we give you the basics and, via AJAX/JSON, we make requests to the API and dynamically create the DOM using the FlyDOM jQuery plugin. The FlyDOM JSON templates are a stroke of genius if you’re looking at loading JSON dynamically into the DOM. The advantage of this is that initial page loads are much snappier and you can load the threads you wish to read on demand.

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Say good-bye to NewsForge

NewsForge by StoneLion - Jun 22, '07 4:02pm

Earlier this week we launched a revamped version of Linux.com that combines the best of NewsForge and Linux.com, along with new features such as forums and introductory material for new Linux users. Please visit Linux.com for the latest news and features. We're briefly bringing back NewsForge in order to iron out some outstanding issues, but we'll soon be redirecting NewsForge to the new site. Thanks to all our readers for your attention and your comments.

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Google hands hardware business over to Dell

Download Squad by Chris Gilmer - Jun 22, '07 9:30am

Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, Hardware, Web services, Google

google search appliance to be built by dell

Google has turned some of its focus off of hardware manufacturing, and handed production over to Dell in order to increase performance on its line of search appliances.

Google has had issues with scaling the development of the search appliance since it has proved to be such a popular device with over 7000 corporate customers. Google had to either choose to increase staff, work on the manufacturing, or look for a third party to help out. Dell's server architecture, particularly the 9G, stood out to Google as it offered leading performance in many areas including server management. Dell will now be assembling the Google enterprise search boxes from components supplied by a variety of manufacturers, and will be in charge of the shipping and receiving.

Dell has already started touting Google as a customer in ads that aim at business customers. And hey, why not. Its not every day that a company as well known and as impactful to society as Google hands over their trust in you.

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Microsoft Hosts Demo of Silverlight on Linux (PC World)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Jun 22, '07 11:00am

PC World - At an event to promote Microsoft Corp. technologies in general, and the Silverlight cross-platform interface runtime in particular, Microsoft France asked Miguel de Icaza, head of the Mono project at Novell Inc. to demonstrate Silverlight running on Linux, using Mono's open-source implementation of Microsoft's.Net technology.

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More Linux Firms Standing Up To Microsoft

Techdirt by Joe Weisenthal - Jun 22, '07 12:41pm

After getting a number of companies to sign its interoperability/patent licensing deals, Microsoft is finding that many Linux distributors aren't interested in these pacts. Red Hat, Canonical (the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux) and now Mandriva have all stated that they want no part of these deals, and see no reason to sign them. As Mandriva CEO Francois Bancilhon correctly put it, the route to interoperability is not through deals, but through open standards. Of course, these deals were never really about interoperability, but about Microsoft looking to demonstrate that some Linux firms agreed with it about the need to license patents. Of course, the firms that have joined the Microsoft camp are seeing benefits, as Microsoft is sending business their way, particularly in the case of Novell. That being said, Novell has burned a lot of bridges in the open source community, while these holdout firms are likely to benefit from added love among Linux fans.

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Debugging AJAX Applications on Internet Explorer - Part 1

All ITtoolbox Blogs - Jun 22, '07 2:24pm

In this entry we'll start with the simplest, but also the least portable option for debugging JavaScript in IE. In the upcoming entry I will explore more sophisticated options. JScript, Microsoft's version of JavaScript, supports the keyword debugger; that starts the debugger while the JavaScript code is executing in IE. In other browsers this keyword will be ignored just

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New WordPress 2.2.1 fixes bugs, blocks exploits

Linux.com :: Feature - Jun 22, '07 11:24am

WordPress yesterday released WordPress 2.2.1, which incorporates a number of small bug fixes and tweaks, along with some security issues that make this a required upgrade.

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EnterpriseDB Releases v8.2

All ITtoolbox Blogs - Jun 22, '07 1:04pm

While I was at ODTUG in Daytona this past week, EnterpriseDB announced general availability of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2. I'll be posting more over the next couple of weeks but the big news is OCI compatibility. EnterpriseDB is shipping with a shared library that will allow you to compile Oracle Call Interface (OCI,

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Web Inspector for Safari on Windows

ASP.NET Weblogs by davidbarkol - Jun 22, '07 7:32am

If you've downloaded Safari for Windows and are a looking for a tool similar to Firebug or Nikhil's Web Development Helper, then you might be interested in the WebKit Open Source Project. Within the project is a tool call Web Inspector that performs much of the same tasks as the tools mentioned earlier. To run the tool:

1) Download the nightly build from http://nightly.webkit.org/.

2) Extract the contents from the zip file.

3) If you are running Vista then you will have to add the following to the end of the Preferences.plist file (under C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Safari\), just before </dict></plist>:

<key>WebKitUserStyleSheetLocationPreferenceKey</key> <true/>

4) Execute the run-nightly-webkit.cmd file. This will launch Safari from the command prompt.

After Safari is launched you will have an additional item in the context menu called 'Inspect Element', select this to see the tool:

Here are a few screenshots of it in action:

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Google Talk Gadget Adds Multi-User Chats

Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu - Jun 22, '07 5:46am

Google Talk Gadget added support group chat. Just click on the "Group Chat" button when you are in a conversation, and you can invite other people to join your discussion. Unfortunately, this feature is not available in any other client, so if you invite someone who uses Google Talk for Windows, Gmail Chat or other Jabber client, he'll get a link to the web version of Google Talk.

The Windows client seems to be neglected this year, but I bet we'll see a major new release in the coming weeks that will add all the new features from the web version, phone calls and more.

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