Building a Drag-and-Drop
Shopping Cart with AJAX
Keeping up with the
latest Web technologies
is tough nowadays. Every
week it seems new sites
are launched that push
the envelope further and
further in terms of what
can be accomplished using
just a Web browser.Feb. 21, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 207,017 Replies: 22


Storage and bandwidth -
these have traditionally
been the two hardest
things to scale up as an
application grows. Many
a dot-com million has
been spent building out
rock solid storage
infrastructures,
sometimes for
applications which never
saw the light of day. ...
Keeping up with the
latest Web technologies
is tough nowadays. Every
week it seems new sites
are launched that push
the envelope further and
further in terms of what
can be accomplished using
just a Web browser.
Back in the November 2005
issue of CFDJ, we looked
at how to create a live
map of your Web site
visitors using Google
Maps and other freely
available services.
The availability of the
Google Maps API has
opened up a slew of new
development possibilities
and spawned a bunch of
web sites that rely on
this data to function.
Example applications
include jogging trackers,
subway map overlays, and
other cool ideas all made
pos...