Ajax Hacks

• 13: Writing Block Methods That Classify or Collect
• 13: Changing the Way an Object Iterates
• 13: Blocks as Closures: Using Outside Variables Within a Code Block
• 10: Binding a Block Argument to a Variable
• 10: Writing a Method That Accepts a Block
• 09: Creating and Invoking a Block
• 04: Benchmarking Competing Solutions
• 04: Writing Unit Tests

July 2007

• 21: Creating and Understanding Tracebacks
• 21: Adding Logging to Your Application
• 21: Rerunning After an Exception
• 19: Handling an Exception
• 19: Raising an Exception
• 19: Running Code Only in Debug Mode

June 2007

• 28: Installing Rails on Windows
• 27: Filtering by Category
• 27: Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)
• 25: Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides
• 25: Playing a Slideshow
• 25: How Rails Implements Ajax
• 20: Putting It All Together: an Expanded Server Example
• 20: SOAP and XML-RPC Web Service Servers
• 20: REST-Based Web Service Server Serving Proprietary XML Documents
• 19: Displaying Photos from Flickr Using XML-RPC:
• 19: Searching Google Using SOAP or SOAP with WSDL Files
• 19: Searching Yahoo using REST
• 19: The Basics of Web Services
• 19: Web Services with Ruby on Rails / Building Web Service Clients
• 17: Rearranging Values Without Using Temporary Variables
• 17: Iterating Over an Array
• 17: Arrays
• 13: Advanced Programming with XOAD
• 13: Introducing XOAD / Downloading and Installing XOAD / XOAD Application
• 06: Roll Your Own Elements and Attributes
• 06: Frames Both Hidden and Visible
• 06: The Difference Between HTML and XHTML
• 06: HTML/XHTML
• 04: Summary: Introducing Ajax
• 04: The Shape of Things to Come
• 04: An Ajax Encounter of the Third Kind

May 2007

• 30: An Ajax Encounter of the Second Kind
• 28: An Ajax Encounter of the First Kind
• 22: What Is Ajax? / The Ajax Philosophy / Meddling with Unnatural Forces
• 22: A Technique Without a Name
• 22: Not a Mockup / Introducing Ajax
• 22: We Learn by Doing
• 22: The Server Side of Things
• 22: A Brief Introduction to Cross-Browser Development
• 22: Web Browsers
• 22: Dynamic Web Pages
• 22: Static Web Pages / Types of Web Pages
• 21: Adding a Timeout to a Long-Running Operation
• 20: Waiting a Certain Amount of Time
• 20: Running a Code Block Periodically
• 20: Handling Commercial Dates
• 20: Finding the Day of the Week
• 19: Converting Between Time and DateTime Objects
• 19: Checking Whether Daylight Saving Time Is in Effect
• 19: Converting Between Time Zones
• 19: Counting the Days Since an Arbitrary Date
• 16: Doing Date Arithmetic
• 16: Iterating Over Dates
• 13: Parsing Dates, Precisely or Fuzzily
• 13: Finding Today’s Date
• 13: Date and Time
• 13: Checking a Credit Card Checksum
• 13: Generating Prime Numbers
• 13: Generating a Sequence of Numbers
• 08: Doing Math with Roman Numbers
• 08: Simulating a Subclass of Fixnum
• 04: Using Complex Numbers
• 04: Solving a System of Linear Equations
• 04: Multiplying Matrices
• 04: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode
• 04: Taking Logarithms
• 03: Converting Between Degrees and Radians
• 02: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode
• 02: Taking Logarithms
• 02: Ruby on Rails : Converting Between Numeric Bases
• 01: RUBY : Generating Random Numbers
• 01: Comparing Floating-Point Numbers
• 01: Parsing a Number from a String

April 2007

• 27: Representing Numbers to Arbitrary Precision
• 26: Classifying Text with a Bayesian Analyzer
• 24: Validating an Email Address
• 23: Replacing Multiple Patterns in a Single Pass
• 23: Generating a Succession of Strings
• 23: Word-Wrapping Lines of Text
• 23: Strings : Handling International Encodings
• 23: Strings : Getting the Parts of a String You Want
• 23: Strings : Testing Whether an Object Is String-Like
• 23: Strings : Managing Whitespace
• 23: Strings : Changing the Case of a String
• 19: Processing a String One Word at a Time
• 19: Processing a String One Character at a Time
• 19: Converting Between Strings and Symbols
• 19: Converting Between Characters and Values
• 19: Representing Unprintable Characters
• 18: Reversing a String by Words or Characters
• 18: Substituting Variables into an Existing String
• 13: Substituting Variables into Strings
• 13: Building a String from Parts
• 11: Visual Effects
• 11: Method Reference
• 11: Inspecting the Results of the Enumerations
• 11: Block Variables and the Enumerable methods
• 11: JavaScriptElementProxy
• 11: Java Script Generator
• 11: RJS Reference
• 10: Refactoring with RJS Helpers
• 10: Adding Some Calculations
• 08: Model Validations / Enhancing the Expense Tracker
• 08: Ajax Global Responders / Enhancing the Expense Tracker
• 08: Ajax Activity Indicator / Enhancing the Expense Tracker
• 08: Enhancing the Expense Tracker
• 08: FireBug: Awesome JavaScript Utility
• 06: Creating the Views
• 06: Entering Some Data
• 03: Creating an Application Layout
• 03: Setting Up a Route
• 03: Defining the Controllers
• 03: RJS in Practice / Creating the Models
• 01: RJS and Rails / Helpers
• 01: ActionView
• 01: RJS and Rails
• 01: RJS Templates for Rails / What Is RJS?

March 2007

• 23: Putting It All Together: an Expanded Server Example
• 23: SOAP and XML-RPC Web Service Servers
• 23: REST-Based Web Service Server Serving Proprietary XML Documents
• 22: Displaying Photos from Flickr Using XML-RPC
• 22: Searching Google Using SOAP or SOAP with WSDL Files
• 22: Web Services on Rails / Searching Yahoo using REST
• 16: Domain-Specific Languages
• 15: Metaprogramming
• 15: Blocks (Rubyisms in Rails)
• 12: Symbols
• 12: Duck Typing
• 10: Objects, Classes, and Modules
• 10: The Philosophy of Ruby
• 06: Example XML Document
• 06: XPath Functions
• 04: Templates and How to Use Them
• 04: XSLT Elements
• 04: XSLT Functions
• 04: XPath in the Style Sheet
• 03: Recursive Versus Iterative Style Sheets
• 03: Simple Style Sheet to Copy the Source XML Document to the Result XML Document

February 2007

• 27: Who’s Using Ajax?
• 27: Objects and the DOM
• 27: Usability Guidelines / Defining Usability
• 19: JPSpan
• 16: JavaScript Effects Frameworks
• 16: JavaScript Remoting Frameworks
• 16: A.1. JavaScript Multipurpose Frameworks
• 16: Appendix. Ajax Frameworks and Libraries
• 05: The Ajax Technologies

January 2007

• 10: A new design for the web

December 2006

• 10: Creating Input Elements
• 10: Setting an Element’s class Attribute
• 10: Setting an Element’s Style via JavaScript
• 10: Appending Rows to a Table

November 2006

• 01: Dynamically Display More Information […]
• 01: Use Strings and Arrays [….]
• 01: Create an Auto-Complete Field
• 01: Build a Client-Side Cache
• 01: Declarative Markup Instead Script XForms
• 01: Search Engine Inside Your Browser
• 01: Configure Apache
• 01: Use a Dynamic script Tag […]
• 01: Obfuscate JavaScript and Ajax Code
• 01: Improve Maintainability, Performance […]
• 01: Set a Time Limit for the HTTP Request
• 01: Bookmarks and Back Buttons
• 01: Fix the Browser Back Button
• 01: Options and Efficiencies
• 01: Integrate script.aculo.us Visual Effects
• 01: Create a Login Box
• 01: Create an Auto-Complete Field
• 01: Create an In-Place Editor Field
• 01: Create a Web Form That Disappears When Submitted
• 01: Savor the script.aculo.us JavaScript Library
• 01: Dynamically View Request Information for XMLHttpRequest
• 01: Periodically Make a Remote Call
• 01: Dynamically Generate a Selection List Using Database Data
• 01: Find Out Whether Ajax Is Calling in the Request
• 01: Dynamically Generate a Selection List in a Rails Template
• 01: Make Your JavaScript Available to Rails Applications
• 01: Monitor Remote Calls with Rails
• 01: Install Ruby on Rails
• 01: Sensible MVC
• 01: Work with Ajax and Ruby on Rails
• 01: Create a Drag-and-Drop Bookstore
• 01: Use Rico to Update Several Elements with One Ajax Response
• 01: Create Observers for Web Page Fields
• 01: Update an HTML Element’s Content from the Server

October 2006

• 31: Use Prototype’s Ajax Tools with Your Application
• 31: Hack Ajax with the Prototype and Rico Libraries
• 31: Integrate DWR into Your Java Web Application
• 31: Use DWR to Create a Selection List from a Java Map
• 31: Display the Keys/Values from a Java HashMap on a Web Page
• 31: Use DWR to Populate an Ordered List from a Java Array
• 31: Access a Custom Java Object with JavaScript
• 31: Call a Built-in Java Object from JavaScript Using DWR
• 31: Direct Web Remoting (DWR) for Java Jocks
• 31: Get Access to the Google Maps API
• 31: Use the Google Maps API Request Object
• 31: Use Ajax with a Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps Mash-up
• 31: Display a Weather.com XML Data Feed
• 31: Use Ajax with a Yahoo! Maps and GeoURL Mash-up
• 31: Debug Ajax-Generated Tags in Firefox
• 31: Fetch a Postal Code
• 31: Create Large, Maintainable Bookmarklets
• 31: Use Permanent Client-Side Storage for Ajax Applications
• 31: Control Browser History with iframes
• 31: Send Cookie Values to a Server Program
• 31: Use XMLHttpRequest to Scrape an Energy Price from a Web Page
• 30: Send an Email with XMLHttpRequest
• 30: Find the Browser’s Locale Information
• 30: Create an RSS Feed Reader
• 30: Power Hacks for Web Developers
• 30: Validate a Text Field or textarea for Blank Fields
• 30: Validate Email Syntax
• 30: Validate Unique Usernames
• 30: Validate Credit Card Numbers
• 30: Validate Credit Card Security Codes
• 30: Validate a Postal Code
• 30: Validation
• 30: Submit Text Field or textarea Values to the Server Without a Browser Refresh
• 30: Display Text Field or textarea Values Using Server Data
• 30: Submit Selection-List Values to the Server Without a Round Trip
• 30: Dynamically Generate a New Selection List Using Server Data
• 30: Extend an Existing Selection List
• 30: Submit Checkbox Values to the Server Without a Round Trip
• 30: Dynamically Generate a New Checkbox Group with Server Data
• 30: Populate an Existing Checkbox Group from the Server
• 30: Change Unordered Lists Using an HTTP Response
• 29: Submit Hidden Tag Values to a Server Component
• 29: Ajax - Web Forms
• 29: It’s Not a Floor Wax
• 29: Detect Browser Compatibility with the Request Object
• 29: Use the Request Object to POST Data to the Server
• 29: Use Your Own Library for XMLHttpRequest
• 29: Receive Data as XML
• 29: Get Plain Old Strings
• 29: Receive Data as a Number
• 29: Receive Data in JSON Format
• 29: Handle Request Object Errors
• 29: Dig into the HTTP Response
• 29: Generate a Styled Message with a CSS File
• 29: Generate a Styled User Message on the Fly
• 28: Ajax Basics