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Today I’ve found a nice site where someone called Fabio Zendhi Nagao is blogging a lot about classic asp. Nice to see it’s not only me who is still dealing with that technology :)

Just recently he has started an interesting series of advanced articles talking about Microsofts legacy scripting technology:

1. ASP, a misinterpreted technology
2. Event-Driven-Programming and lambda function in ASP/VBScript.
3. TDD (Test Driven Development) in ASP/VBScript.
4. Languages: Based on Objects and Object Oriented.
5. Object Oriented in ASP/VBScript “Hackers way”.
6. “Scripting Components”, the ace in the role.
7. Caching: the concept of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) applied to ASP.

Enjoy! I will definitely follow it….

It’s been some time since the last version has been released. But today it’s here! Fresh and with loads of updates comes the brand new ajaxed version 2.0. Coupled with it we proud to announce the new official ajaxed website – ajaxed.org.

The community is growing and ajaxed already helps a lot developers to keep their legacy ASP application still up to date. Some highlight of the release:

Read about the highlight of version 2.0

One cool thing on the new website is the publicly available source code of ajaxed.org. Thats a great resource to have a look into real world ajaxed development.

I proudly announce the launch of a new project developed with ajaxed – yes with classic asp :). It’s a platform for everyone who wants to show tourists/visitors around in his/her hometown and earn some pocket money. Let’s face this:

You are a student and love to get in touch with people from around the globe. On Tourmandu you can offer a tour in your hometown and tourists can get in touch with you. You show them ’round and they pay/tip you afterwards. Not a bad idea :) Great part time income …

As the project has been recently launched its a bit empty, but have a look at some existing tour to get an idea of what i am talking about..

• Tours in Australia
• Tours is Paris, France
• Tours in Spain
• Tours in the USA
• Guides for Famous sightseeing spots

It’s a small function which I will introduce today but very useful. When working recently on ajaxed i discovered that its often possible to pass an array or a primitive type as an argument to a function. Lets say you have a function println(msg) which prints out its argument as a line to the screen. When the argument is an array then it treats each field as a line. So it should be possible to call the function with those variations:

println("something")
println(array("some", "more", "lines"))

Lets see how we solve the solution in a nice way and how we will be able to create a function which is simply called [] (which is common syntax for an array in other languages).

Continue reading ‘Cool way of creating arrays in ASP (VBScript) – advanced’ »

I proudly present the new logo of our ajaxed library. Just achieve a bit of identity ;) What do you think? Do you like it or is it just another web 2.0 logo :) Btw: I have just purchased ajaxed.org which will be the new home for ajaxed. A lot of tutorials, better documentation and version 2 is coming soon. Thanks again for all your support guys!

Its long time ago since there has been an update to the JSON utility class. Thats because its working very stable thanks to your support! Nevertheless we have a new version with new features and some minor bugfixes. The following has been updated: Continue reading ‘ASP JSON utility version 1.5 released’ »

Today we will check how we could realize a simple login using ajaxed for your web application. You know the common stuff where you enter your credentials (email and password) and you get authorized if they are correct.
Continue reading ‘Developing a ‘login’ with ajaxed’ »

the new major release of asp ajaxed is here. I have jumped with counting to version 1.0 because it has been such a big update and the library reached its maturity level. Curious whats new in the box? A lot of improvements and new stuff – i got a lot of inspiration from ruby on rails as well and the biggest goodie is an own developer console with unit tests, documentation creator…

Continue reading ‘ajaxed 1.0 released’ »

Today i had some time and have created an own google discussion group (forum) for the ajaxed project. This will make the management of problems much easier for me. At least i hope so :) It should help you guys to communicate about your solutions and issues with ajaxed. Also all issues regarding JSON in connection with ASP should go there, and all other classic ASP topics. I can track all these stuff much better then. Thanks for your help and contributions!

ajaxed & asp JSON disussion

Ever heard from Picnik? It allows you editing your images direclty within your browser. Forget Adobe Photoshop :) Picnik has been around for a while now but recently it started to offer its service for the public. for free! I played around a bit and must say that it is amazing .. Use it within PHP, classic ASP, .net, Ruby on Rails or whatever… especially i like the idea of the whole service which works like this…

1. Send your images to their service (existing image via URL or encoded as multi-part)
2. Then the user modifies the picture (size, colors, rotation, special effects…)
3. Picnik sends you the picture back to your server (either an URL where you can download it or directly as multi-part image)

Here comes an example I have built for demonstration… Continue reading ‘picnik comes with a free-to-use image editing API for your website’ »