Jason Ashdown's Blog of Wonders

Who-Remembers-Me.com has recently been spamming the hell out of my inbox lately. I’ve been getting more emails from them than anyone else within a week. It’s really starting to bug me!

Thankfully Yahoo mail blocks most of them and dumps them in spam, but one or two leak through occasionally offering my insurance, credit cards, pharmaceutical, fictional offers etc. You know, everything that spam is about…

It’s driving me mad! I just hope someone comes down on them like a tonne of bricks soon. They have already had an official complaint from the Advertising Standards Authority but that was back in 2006.

Another guy blogged about this problem too, and recently as well. It seems the amount of unsolicited spam from them has gone up this year and is causing major problems. I did what the guy suggested and reported them to their ISP which isn’t such a bad idea.

I have been delving into the Javascript Frameworks yet again. When I think of Javascript Frameworks, I automatically think “AJAX”, but that actually is just a part of what they are.

When I think of Javascript Frameworks, these 4 come straight to mind:

• ProtoType
• JQuery
• MooTools
• Script.aculo.us (derived from ProtoType)

I am sure there are others out there but these are the most popular ones that I have learnt about. I remember the first time when AJAX was being taunted with back in 2005. If I recall correctly, ProtoType was the first “Javascript Framework” to appear on the scene, taking hold of this new concept.

These days, more have popped up with very similar features and tools. They also focus on doing everyday tasks as well as handling AJAX. But admittedly, AJAX was the main reason why it spawned this new idea of creating “Frameworks” for Javascript.

The real point of this rant was to ask if anybody else knew of any other Javascript Frameworks? I want to have a look at some alternatives and see what they have to offer and to broaden my knowledge.

Thanks for reading!

Recently I had to integrate a photo gallery for one of my work projects Sony Alpha, a new digital SLR camera from Sony. My task was to display both the Exif data and the image at the same time.

For this project I had to create something new which I haven’t found on the internet before. It uses the popular Lytebox extension (a flavour of the popular Lightbox 2 javascript library) combined with a new javascript plugin that gathers Exif Data for photos via javascript with AJAX. Read the rest of this entry »