Everyone wants slick applications that use Ajax to reduce page loads and make it feel, well, more application-ny. Of course this is all done in a progressively enhanced way, so the page works just as well without JavaScript. The problem is, that sometimes, there's an overhead of the extra work to support the Ajax responders. If [...]

Inline form validation is the way forward with any web site today, and I've found I've been able to extract this process out in to a simple plugin that can be applied anywhere throughout my code using the the following pattern.

To follow on from Auto-populating Select Boxes using jQuery & AJAX, I've had more than a few requests for how to do this for multiple select boxes. In response, I've written a jQuery plugin and have included a simple example of three select boxes populating each other driven by a MySQL database.

Inspired by Dustin Diaz’s AJAX screencast, I thought it was time I made a little more use of iShowU and show how easy, and quick it can be to pile on some AJAX calories to pretty much any form. The screencast is sans-sound, really just to try to keep my out-going bandwidth down, but I’ve commented [...]

Update: due to popular demand, I've caved in, and written a plugin and demos with multiple-select boxes populating each other and driven from MySQL. View: Auto-populate multiple select boxes If you are familiar with using select boxes for categorisation and sub-categories, such as ebay does when selling an item, [...]

Before I get flamed for claiming the impossible, this is how I achieved a goal that was entirely in AJAX, but I needed it to across different domains! Some background: Some time ago I found, and implemented this awesome heatmap click tracking for the company I work for. However, since our test machines run everything [...]

I recently came across a funny bug where I was executing an AJAX method and the response was empty. I check the server side and I know that my particular query is returning a result, but thanks to Firebug I can see it's failing in the browser. So there was something definitely amiss.