NINA

A quick screen cast of one of NINA's adminstrative features. This allows the user to selectively build indexes for the search application.

The cool part, I think, is that even though PHP doesn't have threading, using client side javsacript and jQuery you can simulate threaded message passing.

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Warning: technical blog post!

I've made some open source code that helps speed up javascript applications that need to store a lot of data in a browser. This can make an application faster for the user and save server load and bandwidth. In the NINA project the infamous AJAX destroys back button issue was resolved. I moved on to create a local, javascript based cache using jQuery. (see attached file). The basic trick is that instead of using a persistant array - I use the DOM itself, with form elements. Notes:

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