Rob Gonda

Happy birth-day AJAX (a day late ;))Posted At : 10:10 AM | Posted By : Rob Gonda Related Categories: ajax It's been one year since Jesse James Garret wrote the first article on Ajax, which gave a name to the existing technology and helped it to boom and reach magnitudes and a buz... (more)

Will web applications ever replace regular desktop applications? Will desktop applications adopt web paradigms? Are web applications "Web 2.0"?   The whole 2.0 thing is getting much abuse now; its hype/meaning ratio is inflating by the minute. Web 2.0 is really exposing functionali... (more)

ajaxCFC update for DRWUtil.AddRowsRelated Categories: ajax, ajaxCFC, Coldfusion, JS/DHTML A recent message in the ajaxCFC group asked about the DRWUtil.addRows() function; the truth is that I had never used it. I include the utils library because there are other elements that I f... (more)

ajaxCFC port for the Model-Glue FrameworkThe latest fad in the Model-Glue list has been AJAX. How to incorporate Ajax requests to the Model-Glue framework. Is it pointing directly to the model? To the controller? or going thru the full cycle by pointing to index, then controller,... (more)

ajaxCFC: addressing html code in application.cfc I just got hit with an email informing me that ajaxCFC will break when application.cfc adds code onRequest(start|end). I modified the framework to reset the content before the JavaScript response, and abort it at the end of the as... (more)

Adobe vs. Microsoft: Death Match for RIA LeadershipThe buzzwords du jour are AJAX, RIA, Web 2.0 ... Both Adobe and Microsoft are involved and trying their best to get market share. Abode has Flash and Flex; and AJAX is compatible with every programming language and plays really w... (more)

ajaxCFC now supports built-in improved security, enforcing get or posts verbs, and also optionally checks for the http-referer to match your site. These two checks will prevent a third party from monitoring HTTP packets and trying to call them manually by pasting the full AJAX re... (more)

It's become very popular lately, even though it's not exactly new. It's been possible to use the concept behind AJAX since browsers introduced the XMLHttpRequest function in 1999. AJAX isn't a technology, or a language, and there's no recipe to implement it; it's just a combinat... (more)