Asynchronous JavaScript and XML isn’t a new programming language, as it is often mistakingly called. Basically, AJAX is a set of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, put together and used together for the same purpose - to improve the user-server-interaction.

There is a list with useful AJAX-based techniques you should always have ready to hand developing AJAX-based web-applications:

1. AJAX AutoSuggest:

2. AJAX Autocompleter / script.aculo.us library

3. AJAX AutoCompleter

4. Ajax autosuggest/autocomplete from database

5. Ajax dynamic list

6. AJAX inline text edit 2.0

7. AJAX & CSS Flickr-like Editing Fields

8. AJAX Instant Edit

9. 14 Tab-Based Interface Techniques

10. AJAX Menu Widget

11. AJAX Accordion Navigation:

12. AJAX Dialogs, Menus, Grids, Trees and Views

13. AJAX Tab Module - Closeable Implementation

14. Ajax Tabs Content

15. AJAX Tabbed Content

16. MooTabs - Tiny tab class for MooTools

17. Dynamically loaded articles

18. AJAX Datetime Toolbocks - Intuitive Date Input Selection

19. AJAX Calendars

20. AJAX Floating Windows

21. AJAX Star Rating Bar

22. Ajax poller

23. AJAX HistoryManager, Pagination

24. AJAX Login System Demo

25. AJAX image preloader

26. AJAX Tooltips: Nice Titles revised | Blog | 1976design.com

27. 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS | Smashing Magazine

28. AJAX Web Controls

29. AJAX syntaxhighlighter

30. GMail Ajax Style Username Signup

31. Gmail Ajax Style Check Username

32. Transparent Message

33. ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards

34. AJAX File Uploads progress bar

35. Chained select boxes

36. Fly to basket

37. AJAX Key Events Signal

38. Disable form submit on enter keypress

39. AJAX Instant Completion

40. Novemberborn: Event Cache

41. Altering CSS Class Attributes with JavaScript

42. Select Some Checkboxes JavaScript Function

43. AJAX Emprise Charts

44. amCharts: customizable flash Pie & Donut chart

45. PJ Hyett : The Lightbox Effect without Lightbox

46. AJAX Upload Form

47. An AJAX contact form

48. AJAX contact form

49. Ajax.Form: mootools demo

50. Ajax form validation

51. Really easy field validation

52. AJAX fValidate

53. Ajax newsletter form

54. wForms

55. Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript | Smashing Magazine

56. Grid3 Example

57. AJAX Table Sort Script (revisited)

58. AJAX Sortable Tables

59. AJAX TableKit

60. 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes | Smashing Magazine

61. AJAX LightBox, Sexy Box, Thick Box

62. AJAX Lightbox JS

63. AJAX Unobtrusive Popup - GreyBox

64. SmoothGallery: Mootools Mojo for Images | Full gallery

65. AJAX Libraries and Frameworks

66. How to Create Digg Comment Style Sliding DIVs with Javascript and CSS

67. How to Create a Collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS

68. How to Create an Animated, Sliding, Collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS

69. AJAX Shopcart

70. Draggable content

71. Dragable RSS boxes

72. AJAX Pull Down Effect

73. AJAX Animation Effects

74. Combination Effects in scriptaculous wiki

75. AJAX Motion Transition

76. 9 Javascript(s) you better not miss !!

77. Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time

78. Hyperdisc Materials: JavaScript: Top 10: Automatic Breadcrumb Trail

79. JavaScript: Top 10 Most Useful JavaScripts

80. My Favorite Javascripts for Designers: Blakems.com ?

81. MiniAjax.com

82. Ajax Rain

83. Max Kiesler - mHub : Ajax and rails examples & how-to’s

84. Ajax Resources

85. DZone Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness

86. Mocha UI

87. An Accessible Slider

88. Facebook Style Input Box

89. Rich Text Editor

90. iCarousel

91. Coda Popup Bubbles

92. FancyUpload

93. Moo Wheel

94. Product Slider

95. Taggify Tooltips

96. Relay - Ajax Directory Manager

97. GlassBox

98. qGallery

99. Amberjack

100. GWT-Ext Widget Library

101. Flexigrid

102. cforms II

103. Custom Checkbox with jQuery

104. NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor

105. Tablecloth

106. Unobtrusive Table Actions Script

107. FancyForm

108. Starbox

109. Carousel

110. minishowcase

111. Displaying source code with Ajax

112. mooSocialize - ajax based social bookmark widget

113. Lightview

114. lightWindow

115. DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous

116. New unobtrusive dynamic flickr badge

117. Step by Step - Show and explain visitors what your page has for them

118. Facebox

119. ClickHeat

120. Maillist

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LaPorte

Katy

Humble

Stafford

Pearland

Spring

Pasadena

Houston

Tomball

Cy-Fair

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If possible, set up a bulletin board in a central place in your home, like the kitchen. You can make a nice bulletin board using foam board, gift wrap paper, sheet protectors, glue, a small dry erase board, tape and some creativity. Get the whole family involved!

Here is an example of what one looks like. A foam poster board was covered in gift wrap paper. Then a small dry erase board was attached to the left side using foam tape. A small cork board was placed under the dry erase. Calendars are in the center. They are placed in sheet protectors (for more durability). A circular piece of velcro was attached to the back center of the sheet protector. And the other piece of stick-on velcro was attached to the foam board. The calendars can be taken down easily and a new month can be inserted into the sheet protector. Another calendar -this one is a yearly one- hangs to the right of the other calendars. On the right side, two note pads are added; one is a sticky note and the other is a regular note pad that was attached using tape. Finally, a small box for holding ink and dry erase pens was covered in gift wrap paper and attached using double stick tape.

Here is your blank calendar for the month of Ramadhan (Blank Ramadhan Calendar -pdf). You will need to write in the number of the day once we know when Ramadhan begins. Print on paper with designs or paper that is colored. You can find design-paper cheaply at dollar stores or at places like JoAnns or Michaels. I put my calendar in a sheet protector to write on it with a dry erase marker.

Here is another calendar (Ramadhan Daily Timed Weekly Calendar -pdf). This one is a blank daily timed planner for Sunday thru Saturday. Print out 4 of these so that you have enough for the entire month. Use pretty paper of course. Write your daily schedule on this planner. Hang in a place you will see it. Print out enough for each of your family members.

Another great calendar to use is the Family Fasting Tracker. JazaaKillahu Khayrn to the sister who developed it. There are also other great calendars on the site. But you better print before Ramadhaan gets here; once bandwidth is exceeded on a site, you have to wait a long, long time for the site to become available again.

These engine kits for bicycles are able to be bolted in place (they require a little bit of i-can-fix-this-myself mindset) and they basically turn your bicycle into a motorized bicycle! Is that cool, or what!

Anyway, just thought I would make a note for your round file ;) --- this local company (to their credit) recognized the value of using their logo as a major component of their sign. In their case, they painted a very large version of the logo on the end of their building (facing a major US highway) for many passing motorists to see over, and over, and over, and over... blah, blah... you get the picture.

Now they just need to order some promotional advertising calendars :)

An acid/base reaction in Oak Woods Cemetery  in Hyde Park! Thanks to my brother, Dan, for his high tech equipment. Thanks to my friend, Adam, for his willingness to participate in this science/art experiment. Thanks to Enrico for being buried so conveniently on my commute to work. (If you've been following the blog of late...yes, this, too, is to be a part of the 2009 Calendar!) I, of course, save the best pictures for the calendar.

I thought it was also fitting during these Olympic times that we give Jesse Owens, buried across the way, a little "cyberspace" here.

• set your display time interval to 1 day
• select the current calendar day
• start the slide show

…and the calendar will keep up with the day of the month automatically for a whole year!

Because when I don't have a visual plan to look at, I feel like I start a thousand things, projects or chores, but nothing ever seems to get completed.

I tend to wander aimlessly around the house wondering why I entered this room, or opened that closet, looking at life's mess and clutter, and I just can't seem to get it together.

I could blame this lack of propulsion to do something on the fact that the last few weeks of summer vacation are upon us, that the rainless weather is beckoning, that the infant became a toddler overnight, that the 3yo is exhausted by the multiple activities he pursued this summer, that hubby is going on a 6-day fishing trip leaving me with the kids and clutter, but I won't. Because it's not them. Not really. It's everything together, the cumulative effect.

I'm just so tired.

Having said that, there is no better time to look for an organizational planner than in August when the stores are pushing back-to-school propoganda. I've made excuses to myself to enter shops specifically to look for the perfect calendar or organizer or planner, but I've always left emtpy-handed. Well, not completely empty-handed. I might have a tall latte in one hand, and a lemon poppyseed slice in the other. But a planner, or organizer, doesn't seem to warrant the purchase for some reason. Either they were too complicated, too reminiscent of past-held jobs, or simply too expensive.

What am I looking for anyway? A large, big-squared calendar-type planner for the whole family to use? Or a smaller one just for me I can put into the diaperbag? Should I stick to the old whiteboard for now? Or use notepad or email or something? Maybe I should get a blackberry....or an iPhone...

Perhaps a lined piece of paper will do just fine, thank you very much.

But where is the lined paper? Now that the basement is mostly finished save a few details, you would think finding paper is the easy part. Except the bins and boxes need to be sorted and put away...where again did I put the paper?

Anyway, I digress. After all, I could, technically speaking, use the back of a bill to make notes on. Happen to have a couple right here next to me that need paying.

I think I'll go have a cup of tea and a piece of pie while I ponder my situation.

Special thanks to Catherine and Ryan for helping bring these historical figures back into focus. The brothers Peter and Frankie "Tightlips" Gusenberg are buried in Irving Park Cemetery. They were 2 of the 7 North Side Mob gangsters killed by Al Capone's gang at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. Despite being riddled with bullets, Frank stayed alive for a few more hours and was sent to the hospital where he refused to squeal to the detectives.

His alleged famous last words are: "I ain't no copper." His legacy lives on perhaps with the character on The Simpsons:

Johnny Tightlips.

The cemetery markers for these two souls also remain tightlipped. I went into the cemetery office and inquired about the location of Frank and Peter Gusenberg. A woman, who was "filling in" that day, asked me if I was a relative and if I was sure they were buried there. I told her I was not related. (I did not mention this but findagrave.com has their grave pictured and recorded.) She had me follow her down the corridor to a row of card catalog-like drawers. Sure enough, two note cards appeared with their names in one of the dusty drawers. I wasn't allowed to take a picture of them so I quickly wrote down the lot numbers. Interestingly, the card stated that Frank was removed from Rosehill Cemetery on July 2, 1929 and Peter was removed June 12, 1929 and buried at Irving Park Cemetery. I wonder if there was fear of more vandalism at Rosehill. Catherine, Ryan, and I began dutifully combing through the section. After no luck, I went back into the office again and got a map. We searched further and came to the conclusion that they must have unmarked graves or there was some error. Those gangsters got away from us. The show must go on though and we set up our scene where, according to the map, they are said to be buried.

Rest in Peace, Frank and Peter.

$29.95 from Bubble Calendar

The whole crew got suited up at Alan and Erin's place in the neighboring town of Berwyn. (They did not know me and my project until the day of the photo shoot; this speaks volumes of their character.)

You know you have good models when they come with sketchbooks of their own face paint designs!

We headed over to Woodlawn Cemetery to pay our respects to some circus performers. See the whole train wreck story of 1918 here. or at findagrave.com here.

There are so many amazing pictures of this photo shoot I am tempted to purchase a "Pro" account at Flickr and share them all. I'd like to think my 200 picture limit on my free Flickr account keeps my picture sharing to a finely crafted and curated venue of only my best. Otherwise, I fear my pictures would be interred in its own vast, unvisited cyber graveyard. These are the decisions of our generation, folks, to go "flickr pro" or not...

Amazingly enough, that same day, The Creature (himself!) from the Black Lagoon (remember him?), was signing autographs at "Horrorbles," The Sci-Fi movie memorbilia store in town. "The craziest things happen in Berwyn."-Scarlett. So clowns got in on that, too:

And what better way to end a perfect clown day then with a perfect Italian ice from Gina. I'm not sure Gina fully understood our clown agenda but that's okay, she gave us free refills.

Yes, summer may be winding down. But some design stands the test of time. Todd St. John's handsome woodcut fold-out type for the Yale University Art Gallery Calendar Cover series certainly looks brilliantly cool and contemplative (and organic and fun!) no matter what the season. It's a beautiful contribution to the series, which invites talented designers to render standard text for the Gallery's seasonal calendar of events.

Right now, we have a good number of Llewellyn's calendars (from the classic Astrological Calendar and Witch's Calendar) to their new additions (Mystic Faerie Calendar and Dragon Calendar), and their almanacs (Magical Almanac, Spell-A-Day Almanac, Herbal Almanac) and datebooks (Witch's Datebook, Daily Planetary Guide).

Incoming very soon are our Pomegranate and Amber Lotus lines with themes from Tibetan art to spirit horses to Goddesses and beyond. A bit later in September, we're hoping to see the ever-popular We'Moon wall calendars and datebooks.

Don't wait until the last minute to get the perfect calendar. While we do put our remaining calendars on sale in late December/early January, the pickings can be slim by that point.

According to legend, Resurrection Mary has been sighted at Chet's Melody Lounge, an old bar that boldly faces the cemetery from across the street. We went into the bar to freshen up from our drive down I-55. Mary walked in wearing her work clothes from the day, after a few minutes and a few sips of our drinks, Mary went to the restroom to get into costume. She returned to her bar stool wearing a long white wedding dress. Mike, (check out his myspace) he's pictured here in his Ozzie sunglasses with Mary: was jamming it out on the keyboard in the back corner of the bar. He commented on her "nice dress" in mid-song. We looked for the Bloody Mary that is supposed to sit at the end of the bar for the famous ghost and we also looked for "The Ballad of Resurrection Mary" on the jukebox. (My Chicago Haunts book by Ursela Bielski promised these details.) Apparently only the bartender on Sunday has a Bloody Mary out for the ghost and the jukebox went digital and doesn't have the song anymore. We got our fill of stories of ghost encounters from the locals in the bar. Gil, who bought two beers for us "two hippie chicks at the end of the bar," told us of how he passed out outside the bar after claiming there was no such thing as ghosts. His cigarette went flying out of his hand. Rez Mary was not happy! Ray, Chet's Melody Lounge webmaster, and an extra in the Resurrection Mary Movie made in 2004, recounted the time a beer "just flew off the bar-- I swear, ask the bartender." Ray says the movie's horrible but he's in the scene that they shoot at Chet's Melody Lounge. Here is our rendition of Resurrection Mary at Chet's with Ray seated in the background:

The real shots at the Cemetery gates will be fully revealed in the calendar but here's a sneak preview:

The legendary steel bars where Mary is believed to have pulled the bars apart and imprinted her tiny lady-ghost hands have long since been replaced. (The cemetery claims that a truck backed into the gate. But believers insist that it mysteriously wouldn't "take" to new coats of paint in that same spot.)

Each page in the Wall Calendar measures 11" x 8.5", measures 11" x 17" when hung on wall, has full bleed dynamic color, 100 lb cover weight high gloss paper, is wire-o bound and has January 2009 - December 2009 with 2010 preview and US holidays marked. Get your's today for only $21.99! Just click on the image(s) below to order, see all of the calendar pages, and to find out more information.

Each of the Over-sized Wall Calendars shown here measures 17" x 11", measures 17" x 22" when hung on wall, has over-sized date boxes, has full bleed dynamic color, 100 lb cover weight high gloss paper, is wire-o bound, and has January 2009 - December 2009 with 2010 preview and US holidays marked. Get your's today for only $25.99! Just click on the image(s) below to order, see all of the calendar pages, and to find out more information.

Happy drifting!

With halloween and christmas just around the corner I have some great products in my zazzle shop.

Click on this link to see www.zazzle.com/biglnet

Or you could try http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/justbyjulie for a large selection of greeting cards for all occassions

If you want that extra special gift then try www.justbyjulie.com

There is no obligation to buy feel free to have a look.

Regards

Les

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August is jam packed with"cemetery dates." I'm still looking for a cow costume for Mrs O'Leary's grave. I'll dress up in it if I have to. A two person costume would be ideal. And if anyone doesn't like their photo taken, you can hide in the rear legs... Anyone?

The Calendar Kit is just $6.99 - contains 13 pre-punched 81/2" x 11" sheets of heavyweight matte paper and 10 binding discs all ready to create your very own personalized calendar!

We also have a Kit with Calendar Software included! This Kit is $11.98 and includes Calendar Publisher software. The software has 50 customizable calendar layouts, an option to import your own photos, clipart, or other images and an easy-to-use interface.

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Head on down to 83 Cathcart Street, Greenock and see the fabulous display of Raymond Murray Art Prints and Peter McDermot Art Posters, as well as Raymond Murray calendars, mugs and cards.

While you are there have a look at the wide range of hobby, craft and art materials too !