www.welie.com is a website (built by Martijn van Welie) that provides a lot of useful information about the interaction design patterns. It presents the information in a very clear way. There are many things to get from this website. By making use of some knowledge in interaction design, maybe I will do something to evaluate some of the websites that I am using in my working areas. Good for further reading and reference.
Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
04-Jul-05
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity…
Ruby on Rails
03-Jul-05
What’s Ruby? Ruby is an object-oriented, highly dynamic “scripting” language.
What’s Ruby on Rails? It is a full-stack framework for develop real-world web-applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups. To read more, please start with here: rubyonrails.com.
Real-life applications include 43 Things and S5 Presents.
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
02-Jul-05
Ajax = Asynchronous JavaScript + CSS + DOM + XMLHttpRequest, which is a new approach to web applications. To know how Ajax is different from classic web application model and who’s using it, read this article from Adaptive path.
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
- standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
- dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
- data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
- asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
- and JavaScript binding everything together.