A new member of the HYPE
Tonight after coming back from the pub I was sitting in my bed in my Dublin hotel room and was about to start working on my slides for the Irish Open source Technologies Conferencewhich is happening in a week (wink - wink) I decided that I was bored and that I was going to procrastinate and relax. I decided to make a joke and open my dopplr account (since I am doing a fair bit of travels this year). After having my new dopplr account I realized that I was now cool. So I decided to start a twitter account and add people I know. After an hour playing with this thing, I'm in love... Only thing/problem I have is that most of times I actually wanted to look up my friends in conferences, the thing was down... I sure hope some optimizations have been applied to the systems so I can overuse twitter in the next few weeks.
Next thing you know, I am a member of bebo, I am a member of facebookand I am even member of a group (PHP Development), I have a pix.ieaccount (And a flickraccount before I found out I had to pay to get more pictures in), I have a twitteraccount, a dopplraccount, and almost all other fancy things. I use jQueryand Ext, I have a MacBook and a new cell phone. WHAT NEXT?!
All people I know and that visit my website. People from the PHP Community, don't be shy to add me to your twitter, I'd love to see this thing working (Which I highly doubt even though many people are using it proactively).
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Read more in the project overview.
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As long as it is a client-side library it will work with any server technology: ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, Classic ASP... and even with local HTM files.
I've included extensibility so that you can add easily your own progress indicators (several included) and show error messages the way you prefer (by default it shows an alert).
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Documentation is included.
Features summary
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• Two versions of the module:
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- AJAXINterceptor_r.js: reduced-size version. It downloads faster as it only is 2.6 kB in size. It's better to use this on production apps.
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• Support for cancelling operations.
• Support for custom message displaying.
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In the ZIP you will find teh module, a working sample with ASP.NET and a PDF with the help documentation.
This project is just for fun :-)
I will be very glad if you drop me a line in case you use AJAXInterceptor in any real-world application or if you enhance it with new features.
Visit my .NET blog (Spanish) at http://www.jasoft.organd my e-mail marketing blog (English) at http://www.theemailingexperience.com
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