Category Archives: Tutorials

The Rundown on JSON

JSON is a happy, lightweight data-interchange format similar to XML. It’s often used in AJAX applications and is commonly offered as a response type (e.g. Yahoo, Google, Twitter). JSON is based on a subset of the JavaScript language but its syntax is similar to those of C-based languages, so it’s considered a “language-independent” format although […]

script.aculo.us Ajax Sortable Lists Tutorial

Let’s make sortable lists that remember their order like the ones found in the To-Do lists for 37signals’s Basecamp. With Ajax calls and sortables implemented in Prototype and script.aculo.us, this is just a matter of putting the puzzle pieces together. And for those of you impatient, here’s the final result.