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GPokr: Ajax Poker App

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Showcase, Google — Dion Almaer at 9:35 am on Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Ryan Dewsbury has written a multiplayer ajax poker application written with GWT.

The front end is written with Java which the google web toolkit compiles to javascript. This is an impressive task that GWT does and so far, even though the toolkit is beta, seems seamless. The front end talks to a java servlet on the backend through an RPC layer on top of XMLHttpRequest. The server sends events back to the clients through the same RPC mechanism so that the players at the table always have an updated rendering.

Watch out Party Poker! :)

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Google Paint

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Google, Fun — Dion Almaer at 3:08 pm on Friday, July 21, 2006

Google Paint is more Friday Fun :)

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Eventsites - Proof Of Concept

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Showcase, Google, Ajax, Examples, Mashups — Admin at 4:37 am on Monday, July 3, 2006

Developer Pete Nixey created this site as a proof-of-concept. Eventsites is a full-fledged application that uses no server logic and stores no data of it’s own. We’ve all seen the Google map mashups, but this really takes things to the next level and shows the power of what can be created in today’s Web 2.0 environment.

This is a 1 page AJAX application that merely acts as a “client to other webservices”.

Visit Pete’s blog to find out how this was created.

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Google AJAX Search API

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Showcase, Google, Ajax — Admin at 3:05 am on Monday, July 3, 2006

Google has released a AJAX Search API which allows you to embed a search control that displays the results inside of the page using AJAX requests. You can sign up here.

“The Google AJAX Search API lets you embed Google Search in your personal web pages. A single AJAX Search API key is valid within a single directory on your web server, including any subdirectories. The Google AJAX Search API is an experimental API that lets you integrate a dynamic Google search module into your web pages so your users can mash up Google search results with other content on your site or add search results clippings to their own content.”

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