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Documenting prototype.js for AJAX

October 5th, 2005 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 5 Comments »

As the prototype.js library lacks documentation and I recommend to use the down cut version for AJAX, I thought it might be useful to document how to use the AJAX related functions. A "normal" AJAX callback When you just want to do a post-back to the server (for example to store some data the user [...]

prototype.js just for AJAX

October 5th, 2005 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 11 Comments »

Customized prototype.js for AJAX, small in size.

Rise of slow AJAX applications

October 4th, 2005 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 3 Comments »

Many AJAX applications overuse the new technology. Try using it at a reasonable degree.

Bloated Ajax Applications Due to Libraries

October 3rd, 2005 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 8 Comments »

The most used AJAX libraries take up quite considerable amounts of download volumen. Change that.

Setting up exim4 on Debian

September 27th, 2005 by Alexander Kirk | Comments Comments Off

i have been dealing with setting up a mail server, lately. debian seems to have a preference for exim. most of the mail admins i know also support this. so i had a look at this. as it always happens to me, i start with a not so easy scenario, but after some figuring i [...]

PHP and Multibyte

April 5th, 2005 by Alexander Kirk | Comments Comments Off

ever messed around with umlauts or other non [a-z] letters? it's quite horrible. for the german speaking region there are mainly two encoding types: iso8859-1 and utf-8. the former encodes each letter with one byte by extending old 7-bit ascii with 127 more letters, amongst others also umlauts. utf-8 includes up to 32,640 more letters [...]