I followed a howto for adding that hot AJAX loving to a Rails app, and now my gestating bookmark manager has a slick add-a-new-bookmark-without-reloading-the-page form, making it feel pretty responsive. I really wish del.icio.us had implemented that – it takes a LONG time to reload the page (with huge tag cloud) when adding a bookmark…
Anyway, I pieced together code from a howto and a wiki page, and it took me maybe 30 minutes to get it going (with Family Guy playing in the background, so not 100% attention-requiring).
It’s not perfect – I have to clean up the new-record-displaying code – but it works pretty darned well. The newly saved bookmark is displayed at the top of the bookmarks list pretty quickly, with no noticeable lag.
I followed a howto for adding that hot AJAX loving to a Rails app, and now my gestating bookmark manager has a slick add-a-new-bookmark-without-reloading-the-page form, making it feel pretty responsive. I really wish del.icio.us had implemented that – it takes a LONG time to reload the page (with huge tag cloud) when adding a bookmark…
Anyway, I pieced together code from a howto and a wiki page, and it took me maybe 30 minutes to get it going (with Family Guy playing in the background, so not 100% attention-requiring).
It’s not perfect – I have to clean up the new-record-displaying code – but it works pretty darned well. The newly saved bookmark is displayed at the top of the bookmarks list pretty quickly, with no noticeable lag.
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This is one I’d love to see … what strikes me as you describe this little project is how useful apps like the bookmark manager would be if students could just plug them into their learning environments — for example, if you are using a U-wide LMS/CMS, students could just add this little bit of functionality to create their own bookmark tool that would be context specific to their courses. I am seeing more and more of these opportunities pop up all over the place — small pieces of things loosely joined (hey wait a minute!) to could create killer web-based educational spaces.
Again, I’d love to see what you have working! Happy New Year!