Aug 17th 06 Posted by Remus Stratulat in web 2.0

Degradable Ajax?"> Degradable Ajax?

Developing an Ajax application can be a little bit difficult. Creating an Ajax web application that is both useful and degradable IS difficult. However this two goals can be achieved quite easily if you are using the right tools.

Right now there is only one tool that I know of that offer both these desired features: MX Ajax Toolbox. You can look at this very impressive demo
and you can try to disable JavaScript from your browser to see how it works.

Quoting from the website: MX Ajax Toolbox consists in a set of tools that allows you to solve two main use-cases:

1. Build AJAX sites from scratch (Rich Internet Applications) – with or without using a database connection.
2. Update legacy websites with interactive AJAX controls and widgets.

The Ajax image gallery from my site is one of the widgets provided by this toolbox.

Aug 7th 06 Posted by Remus Stratulat in Others

Time travel

I am a SF fun and one thing has puzzled me over the time: time traveling. I am sure that time traveling is either impossible to be done or we as the human race will never discover it.

Aside from various moral discussions or paradoxes involved with this concept, there is one thing that is obvious. Nobody have come from the future to visit us.

Why?

Because:

1. it is impossible to travel through time.
2. the travelers are very careful not to leave any marks in the past.
3. the human race will gone extinct before the technology will enable us to travel through time.

As option (2) is highly unlikely I am hoping for (1) as (3) is not quite pleasant even if this is the most probable one.