I was rather depressed over a year ago when Google deprecated their SOAP Search API with their AJAX Search API. Essentially Google was saying that they didn't want anyone programmatically accessing Google search results unless they were going to be presenting the results unaltered in a rectangular portion of a website.
The recently announced Google Ajax Libraries API caught our attention because it offers some significant performance improvements if you use a popular Javascript library (e.g. JQuery, prototype, script_aculo_us, MooTools or dojo) on your site.
How to optimizing JavaScript performance in Ruby on Rails. This will only focus on one aspect of JS performance optimization, namely, writing a build script to concatenate/minify the JS, and setting up Rails to easily toggle between the compressed and normal files.
A picture is worth a thousand words is a proverb that refers to the idea that a picture can explain a complex situation in more meaningful way than 1000 or more words.
You may have heard that Google is hosting a number of Ajax APIs, including jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools and dojo.
If you’re reading this blog you’ve probably already heard about Google’s AJAX Library API on many other news sites like Slashdot.
For whatever reason, there aren’t many examples on the net of Python code that can be used with the Google AJAX Search API. I’m not really sure why this is and perhaps I’m missing something, but for future reference here’s some sample python code.
I just got to announce the Google AJAX Libraries API which exists to make Ajax applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools faster and easier for developers.
Google today opened up the machine translation software they implemented on their own Google Translate site via a public API. The AJAX Language API allows developers to perform translations in their applications for all 13 supported languages and 29 translation pairs.
You may have seen quite a bit about the new Google Chart API, but you may not have seen a real world example. In the recent release of the Digg Bury Recorder I got some first hand practice in using th Google Chart API. When developing the application I found a few interesting nuances and knowledge of these could help you in using the API in your applications.
Ajaxlines is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of most of Ajax related articles, resources, tutorials and services from around the world.
Its purpose is to showcase the power of Ajax and to act as a portal to the Ajax development community.
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