Manipulate Your TV Listings with TiVo+Ajax

scrapeYurShoos writes "As posted on PVRBlog: another cool use for Ajax (or whatever you want to call it), this one culls the Now Playing xml file residing on your TiVo and transforms it using xsl into a pretty webpage or a Pie Chart."

Comments

Why even mention Ajax?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ajax means that your browser makes requests via javascript to send/receive new content, rather than loading completely new pages. Very handy, and it's nice that there's finally a name for it. (Pain in the ass to unit test though, since there aren't any good javascript libraries for Perl or Ruby [what I use for web testing]).

So what on earth does it have to do with this little XSL hack? You could do the same thing from your command line, no web at all!

Let's go easy on those buzzwords okay? They take otherwise good ideas and drive them into the ground.

Please stop spreading the meme!

[clmensch]

The Adaptive Path web consultancy is making good progress in spreading the "ajax" meme. Please do not give them indirect credit for "creating" something that has been around for a while just because they came up with a freakin' buzzword. What is this, the 90's? This just reeks of a marketing strategy...so typical of consultants.

Here's a good comment from the original slashdot "ajax" discussion that sums it up

Re:Please stop spreading the meme!

[Lovejoy]

One thing that consultants are good at is marketing. One thing that OSS developers are ridiculously bad at is marketing. (Witness OGG VORBIS) The presence of athe Ajax meme on Slashdot is the proof in the pudding, so to speak.

OSS developers could make a lossless 90% compression codec - and they'd probably call it OMGWTFBBQ!& (pronounced BANGAMP) Then they'd complain because nobody would adopt their brilliant product.

Geeks don't like to admit it, but marketing is important.

Re:naming

[rsborg]

For example, the communications do not have to be asynchronous and doesn't actually need to have anything to do with XML.

Uh... the core part of AJAX is the XMLhttpRequest function, therefore the XML in AJAX. Also the link defines XMLhttpRequest as being asynchronous, I have no idea if that is necessarily the case... but if it were, then the (A)synchronous would make sense.

From your definition JASC is somewhat different from AJAX, in the implication that you don't need to use Javascript or XMLhttpRequest. I think that those two are used solely due to installed support for the two (instead of relying on a JRE or other method).