is made of an assortment of technologies, but primarily LAMP. A lot of design analysis went into weighing client-side vs. server-side scripting as well as functionality. AJAX was the prime candidate for improving overall response time and functionality, however many of the available libraries seemed to add unnecessary overhead in terms of bandwidth and the browsers runtime compiler resources. So Rip-cord was written as an alternative to AJAX.
Rip-cord is a light-weight RPC library which allows the browser to seemlessly communicate with server over HTTP protocols.
The client does most of the data manipulation while the server records and retrieves the data without the need for the webpage to refresh. This is not much different than what you would expect from AJAX except the IO headers are considerably smaller and lightning fast over the network.
The code itself is nothing more than a standard RPC base code written in JavaScript with special listening PHP functions on the server to handle requests and responses.
Among a few other advantages, TaskLedger™ is the first Application written which takes advantage of these features offered by Rip-cord.
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Known Bugs:
Login Malfunction (2-6-09) Users were unable to login due to conflicting DB settings. Error resolved, and login now possible.
Firefox rendering errors. This is a compatibility issue that is being resolved. Use IE or Safari in the meantime.
Filter and Configuration Panel features not working - (1-30-09) Not really a bug, was not completed at the time of release. Should have these features fully functional in several weeks.
Order of tasks misbehaving - (1-30-09) This is a bug with the SQL statement retrieving the information out of order.
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So Rip-cord was written as an alternative to AJAX.