Web Info & Tutorials

October 16th, 2006

PIC RESIZE 2.0: CROP, RESIZE, BLUR

Pic Resize 2.0 has been released today. Pic Resize is another web based tool to help you munge your images.

Once uploaded, you can crop, resize, and add a set of effects to the image.

picresize edit

There is also a multiimage edit mode that lets you simply add a set of files, and batch resize them. So many applications get wrong multiple file selection, yet here it just works.

picresize multi image

Personally I would like a batch rotator option. I always end up having to rotate my vertical photos so that is something I really like to be able to do in batch.

October 16th, 2006

RJS API FOR JAVA AND GWT

Jacob Hookom has liked what he has seen with RJS within Rails, so pondered a RJS like API for GWT and Java.

He then created a ClientWriter that would generate the JavaScript from the Java code.

E.g. in Java:

JAVA:
  1.  
  2. // MyBean.java
  3. private UIInput nameInput;
  4. public void setNameInput(UIInput input) {
  5.   this.nameInput = input;
  6. }
  7.  
  8. public String action() {
  9.    ....
  10.    if (loginFailed) {
  11.        ClientWriter writer = ....;
  12.        writer.select(this.nameInput, Effect.highlight());
  13.    }
  14. }
  15.  

A demo of a cart application using this technique is live here

October 16th, 2006

GOOGLE AJAX VIDEO BAR

The Google Ajax Search API has additional a Video Bar solution that lets you block videos to your blog, same a Flickr course (and others).

They hit a playground blog that shows a aggregation of the inline ajax see components in action.

Chances are you module not poverty to batch your possess journal with every Google widget on the plannet, but they exhibit you how to do pleasant Ajax components.

The key is that they are every consciousness contained and do not meet verify you soured to whatever another site. We utilised to hit see boxes and transpose widgets that were meet face ends to another websites. Now they every impact inline, exclusive your journal experience.

Google Search API playground