4D have recently released a new version of their Ajax Framework, included in this new release a major enhancement with HTML 5, Google Gears and Adobe Air support, In addition to support codeless generation of an Ajax client for the iPhone. Below the press release :

Major release features the world's first Flex-to-Database direct connectivity, iPhone 2.0, HTML 5, Google Gears and Adobe AIR Support

July 24, 2008 - SAN JOSE, CA - 4D, Inc., maker of an integrated software platform that simplifies the process of developing and deploying business applications, announced today the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D Ajax Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a powerful set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to easily harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver live web and rich internet applications to browsers, desktops, and portable devices such as the iPhone.

"With the advent of technologies like Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) both Flex-powered and Ajax-driven, the iPhone, Adobe AIR, HTML 5, and Google Gears, web applications are making their way to more mobile devices, desktops and, yes, browsers than ever before,"said Laurent Ribardière, President and founder of 4D.

4D for Flex provides the world's first Flex-to-database direct connectivity. All other Flex-to-database solutions require complicated, overweight middleware solutions. 4D for Flex offers a simple, integrated Flex-to-SQL database direct connection. With zero overhead, 4D for Flex not only provides a revolutionarily simple, integrated architecture, but also high-performance connectivity to 4D Server v11 SQL and other industry standard SQL databases.

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Packt publishing have recently released a new and interesting JavaScript book that teaches users how to create scalable and reusable JavaScript applications and libraries using the concepts of object-oriented programming. Written by Yahoo! Web developer Stoyan Stefanov, Beginning Object-Oriented JavaScript will teach users to solve web development problems using smart JavaScript. Ajax Magazine readers can download the sample chapter (PDF 872Ko) to have an idea on what the book is all about.

For years, JavaScript has been a handy hacker's tool for adding interactive elements to web pages, now it can be used to build large libraries, multi-tier application architectures, and advanced logic. With these new applications of JavaScript, you need a new way to learn and write it. This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language. It shows how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful JavaScript libraries, applications, and classes as well as cover many of the recent JavaScript innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns.

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Catalyst Resources released a "green audit" of their software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaborative workspace project that allows distributed business teams of all sizes to work virtually and seamlessly online. The AJAX Rich Internet Application (RIA) enabled Catalyst Resources to reduce its carbon impact footprint by 21,000 lbs of CO2 per month, while simultaneously reducing expenses and increasing billable activities by nearly 20%.

Since 2002 Catalyst Resources has evolved and enhanced their secure online collaboration, project management and document sharing solution for use by remote employees and select clients. Recently Catalyst began to track how the web collaboration solution impacted the company's greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for air travel and local commuting.

"When we ran the analysis, we were pleased with by the significant reduction in our own carbon footprint." said Paul Giurata, Managing Partner of Catalyst Resources. "The question then became how we could broaden the green impact, by expanding the solution from an internal resource, into a customizable team space to be used by our entire client base."

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Ruben Daniels have written two interesting articles about outlining new functionality of Javeline PlatForm. With the release of version 0.98.2, PlatForm has enhanced backbutton support. In combination with state objects it implements backbutton support by encoding all state data in the hash.

The second article on Docking Windows in the browser - the kind of new feature that you won't see anywhere else. It allows you to create UI's similar to Aptana or Visual Studio, with windows that can be docked, undocked etc.

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For more gaming fun with JavaScript, BeSlimed is a very interesting Mootools implementation of BeJewelled game - my favorite game on my mobile ! Now you can enjoy it on browser too.

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John have just announced jQuery 1.2.6, a bugfixes releases with major improvements and many new features. Key performance improvements include 103% Faster Event Handling, 13% faster CSS selectors, 21% faster .offset() and 25% faster .css(). New features and major changes in jQuery 1.2.6 :

• The Dimension plugin by Brandon Aaron is now part of the jQuery core.
• .attr() method has been completely overhauled
• .toggle() can now accept more functions
• unbind bound .toggle() and .one() functions
• .index() supports jQuery collections
• jQuery.makeArray can convert ANYTHING to an array.
• beforeSend can cancel Ajax calls
• Exposed Speeds

More information and download from jQuery.com

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