CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm.

This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible.

• Clear, structured tutorial on working with CodeIgniter
• Careful explanation of the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and its MVC architecture
• Using CodeIgniter with databases, HTML forms, files, images, sessions, and email
• Building a dynamic website quickly and easily using CodeIgniter’s prepared code

Improve your PHP coding productivity with this guide to the powerful and popular CodeIgniter framework.

• Setting up the CI package on your web server
• Understanding the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for organizing a dynamic website
• Understanding the structure of a CI site
• Designing better views and controllers
• Object-oriented aspects of CI
• Integrating databases such as MySQL and simplifying your database access
• Making your site more robust and professional by using CI’s built-in classes
• Creating and validating HTML forms with CI form helpers
• Handling files, images, and sessions with CI
• Sending email from CI
• Using CI for testing your code with error handling, unit testing, benchmarking, and profiling
• Getting an XML-RPC server and client working
• Generating Create, Update, Delete, and Read (C.R.U.D) entries on each database table

This book steps you through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining them clearly with illustrative code examples.

Writing for enterprise developers, architects, and user interface specialists, the authors explain why AJAX offers such great promise in large-scale development. Next, they systematically introduce today’s key AJAX techniques and components.You’ll walk through developing frameworks for building AJAX applications that combine data tables, Web forms, charts, search, and filtering: the very systems businesses depend on in CRM, ERP, BI, and beyond. Then, building on this strong foundation, the authors identify proven AJAX architectural patterns, and present case studies drawn from actual .NET and Java AJAX applications. Coverge includes

•Using AJAX to implement Model-View-Controller (MVC) in the browser

•Encapsulating user interface functionality to facilitate code reuse and reduce cross-browser development problems

•Overcoming the unique security challenges associated with AJAX Web applications

•Optimizing AJAX usability: the “back” button, caching, bookmarking, offline usage, and beyond

From security to scalability to project risk, this is the only book to cover all the issues facing AJAX developers in the enterprise. Whether you’re migrating legacy HTML interfaces or building new applications from scratch, you’ll find it absolutely indispensable.

www.enterpriseajax.com contains code samples, case studies, tutorials, live demos, and other AJAX resources.

Kevin Hoang Le and his team have created an Ajax Chinese Chess game.

It’s true Ajax (as opposed to just Javascript) since all the move computations of the “computer” player is done on the server and the data is passed in JSON format back and forth.

The Javascript code is entirely unobtrusive and weights only about 30 kB (uncompressed). This code uses the excellent Mootools and JavaScript VectorGraphics libraries. On the server side, it’s built in Python using the Django framework.

Ajax Chinese Chess features the following: animation, drag and drop, fast loading (thanks to lightweight Javascript code mentioned above and small footprint Mootools), no plugin required and cross browsers/cross platforms.

You can never have enough Tetris on a Friday.

Sergey Popov created this version. Play away.

SlideShowPro
The complete slide show solution for Flash

SlideShowPro is an ActionScript 2.0 component for Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 that helps you display photo galleries and slide shows on your own web site. With over 60 customizable options, SlideShowPro works how you want it to, and can easily be styled and resized to match your existing site design — all with a simple point and click user interface.

More Info : http://www.slideshowpro.net/
Demo : http://www.slideshowpro.net/examples/skyscraper.php