BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture

“Are you fed up with that lame old directory manager your hosting company provided you with for you website or blog? If you are already familiar with windows or mac file browsers, why should you have to change the way you work for the web? Try Relay for a change.”

Relay, a directory manager and file uploader, has been released as open source. I haven’t had a look at the code yet, or attempted to install it myself, but the demo looks good. At the very least, it could be a good base to build upon for other projects.

Every since development on Venkman stopped, I’ve missed having a debugging tool for JavaScript code.

So, this is one of the most useful finds I’ve made in awhile… Firebug.

AJAX too much? Try AHAH!

First up, from crackajax.net, we have:

• A Site Description Grabber using AHAH
• AHAH – Ajax Lite?
• Ajax Project – Tabbed Page Interface

and also this from geekpedia.com:

• Dynamic update with MySQL

A few useful JavaScripts I’ve found recently. I have just used (this week) the first of each pair:

1. CSS: Pre-Loading Message
2. ‘Loading – Please wait’ Message Display Script

And a couple of popup calendars:

1. DHTML Calendar from dynarch.com
2. Calendar popup with many variations

This post from Kevin, reminded me that I really need to investigate some of the various JavaScript UI libraries myself.

So far the ones I want to have a play with, including the couple from Kevin’s link, are:

• Prototype
• Rico, which is built on Prototype
• MochiKit
• Dojo
• Yahoo’s UI contribution
• x-desktop and idots2
• AjaxTK (added 22nd Feb. Forgot about this one!)

Anyone know any others? Or, has anyone actually used these in a real project?