Tag Archives: ajax

Update Table Data in Grails using Ajax Calls

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Using Ajax for simple forms can offer users a very clean, simple and fast way to input data. I came across a situation recently where I was looking into replacing a document based workflow with an application. The documents themselves … Continue reading →

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RESTful Rails for Ajax

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ruby on Rails 1.2 added full support for building RESTful services to the already nice web page support. REST is a conceptually simple idea, yet incredibly powerful. REST is a Web based API to an application. It builds on the … Continue reading →

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Ajax with JSON using PHP and DOJO

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Ajax is a web application development architecture that resembles more of a client-server architecture than traditional web development. In an Ajax application a client application is delivered to the browser consisting of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The interactions of the client with the server send and receive data, data that the client then knows how to display to the user.

As a hot technology, I was of course interested in learning more so I created a small example application using DOJO, JSON and PHP so that I could play with it a bit. I thought I’d share it with everyone so they could use it as a quick-start example for trying some of these technologies. Continue reading →

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RJS Templates for Rails

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I recently got a free copy of RJS Templates for Rails from the Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group. O’Reilly has a program that makes books available for free to Users Groups, which is a really nice thing (of course they bank … Continue reading →

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