Korayem/ajax

From the page: "In my previous blogpost I explained how to extend TextboxList to add closing functionality via a link added to each box. But it was missing an important ingredient: autocompletion!"

From the page: "Visual WebGui is an open source AJAX framework, targeted at enabling smooth fast and risk free framework to enable AJAX / Silverlight for complex, data intensive IT level application GUI. Visual WebGui AJAX framework is based on a revolutionary ON-Server approach that offers the highest simplicity in designing and programming, secured front ends and industrial strength that allows unlimited application size and weight on web. "

From the page: "Today the consumer of a Web site can be as responsible for its content, direction, and success as the publisher. Social networking sites, blogs, online photo journals, and wikis are just a few of the new styles of Web sites springing up every day, and it's just the beginning. Your Web site can offer the best content available, but if it stands in the way of letting your users participate in its growth and development, your site will quickly fall into uselessness."

From the page: "This topic describes how to use the Visual Studio Project Designer to enable and configure client application services. You can use client application services to validate users and retrieve user roles and settings from an existing ASP.NET AJAX application service. After configuration, you can access the enabled services in your application code as described in Client Application Services Overview. For more information about the ASP.NET AJAX application services, see ASP.NET Application Services Overview."

From the page: "Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX applications do not require extensive use of page postbacks. However, a browser-based application might still have to use server-based application services such as forms authentication and profiles. The Microsoft AJAX Library provides JavaScript proxy methods that enable your browser-based Web applications to use these services without the need for postbacks."

From the page: "ASP.NET AJAX framework includes the System.Web.Script.Serialization which helps to serialize the .NET object to a JSON representation string. I am using ASP.NET 2.0 callbacks to call the server side method using the client side code."

From the page: "Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) AJAX services can be accessed from any Javascript-enabled Web page, without requiring ASP.NET AJAX. This topic describes how to create such a WCF service."

Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet
2.0.

The website framework is Ruby on Rails. Looking up words in a dictionary is
easy, so we do that with MySQL and cache the top 10,000 definitions in
memory.

Doing word completion (a.k.a. auto-complete, auto-suggest, globbing) is not
easy, at least not when you have to search through 200,000 words for every
keystroke. So our word completion is done in a C module for Ruby, and the word
completion server is separate from the rest of the site.

With the DefinrBot algorithm, we can do 190,000 word completions per second
without caching, and that translates to about 10,000 completions per second
once the Ruby layer is factored in.