A new report I’m considering adding to W3Counter is a “Live Map” — a Google map that shows visitors arriving to your website in real-time. It updates every 3 seconds with an AJAX call, instantly recenting the map on each new visitor and popping up their information. I’ve had fun staring at it for half [...]
Yesterday, Amazon.com quietly launched its latest initiative, an independent brand selling high-end shoes, handbags and accessories. Amazon.com still carries its own, broader selection of these products, while Endless.com offers a boutique-like shopping experience online, following in the footsteps of Zappos (Zappos Couture) and Gap (Piperlime).
I have been looking for an excuse to try out Camtasia, so I recorded some of the AJAX effects W3Counter makes use of. Symfony provides simple functions to wrap Prototype and Script.aculo.us that make complex combination effects simple. Read the full post for the short screencast.
I’ve gotta say, reproducing the AJAX effects from W3Counter within symfony was much easier than expected. It took only a few minutes to master and the code practically wrote itself.
