ajax Archives

Development Practices

AJAX Interactions Need Activity Indicators

Using simple ways to show users that activity is occurring can improve the experience they have. Here are a few ways to handle the activity indicators.

Web Apps

These Intermittent Test Failures Will Not Stand, Man

I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.

iOS / OS X

Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1 Unexpectedly Making Cross Origin Resource Sharing Requests

My Ajax calls were failing and I saw my application logs containing many requests with the HTTP verb "OPTIONS". I narrowed it to oddities with PDFs on Safari.

Web Apps

Upload Files Directly to S3 with Plupload, Rails, and Paperclip

A description of uploading files directly to Amazon S3 from the browser using Plupload, Ruby on Rails, and Paperclip.

Web Apps

Chaining jQuery Ajax Calls

An example of sequentially chaining jQuery Ajax requests using deferred objects and deferred.pipe.

Platforms & Languages

Extracting a Table from a MySQL Dump

Web Apps

jQuery Ajax Memory Leak in IE8

With so many javascript memory leaks in Internet Explorer it can be very difficult to track down the cause and solution to any given leak.