jFlow Context Slider

OK, you are likely wondering exatly what a context slider is now aren't you? This means you have a content block on the page with something like tabs on the top of it. When you click from one tab to the next the content inside the block appears to have content scroll inside the block. It is very powerful and something I would suggest checking out.

jFlow Link

Google universal AJAX repository

I hope many of you other developers are getting as much out of blogs as I am.

There are a set of libraries we as the web developer community tend to use for doing AJAX. Google code has a set of common ajax libraries that can be accessed to make them download faster.There is a great blog post of the benefits and considerations. Some additional considerations is to create an API that makes it easy to do things like pull content from a CDN. Another thing I am working on is how to create links to external sites for content in the fashion this is speaking of also. When we figure out a best practice on this we will pass it on. It is likely that this best practice will end up in our next version of SOS when we finally get it out to the public.

(note: I am planning to overhaul my blogging system to make it let me build prettier RIA blog posts in much less time. That might be a couple of months out, but it will be better to read and watch for anyone who follows.)

Image Notes

How may of you have seen the way notes can be added to Flickr photos? I think it is a cool concept and would like to be able to do that also for some of the projects we work on with our sites. Now my goal isn't to offer the public the ability to add notes to photographs but it would be nice to the the content managers of sites the power of putting these notes on the pages. This is only the last piece of the puzzle but adding in the other pieces with other libraries shouldn't be that difficult.

Image Notes Link

note: I corrected the link for anyone who was hear earlier.