I love developing usable and rich web applications using the latest techniques available.

Aaron Hopkins of Google has released an article on Optimizing Page Load Time which came out of his experience optimizing page load times for a high-profile Ajax application.

This is probably a very handy post to read before starting developing our projects at RIA, because this is particulary important to take in account when developing a web application that’s supposed to handle a massive load of users.

Widgipedia is a new widgets resource and a very nice one, check it out.

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When working on an application i needed an autocompleted input field. Because i allready was using Script.aculo.us for some effects i decided to use the ajax.autocompleter function.

The one big problem i faced is that i needed to update multiple fields, unfortunately the autocompleter function only updates one inputfield.

So i started working on a way to update multiple input fields, which i’m going to share with you.
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