I did some modifications today on the Simpy module. Now it has some ajaxy effects on the tagcloud page.

Go ahead, click on Bookmarks and then click the tags. I used moo.fx, moo.ajax and prototype.lite.

The next version will have an ajaxy search too.

Via Martin:

Alex and I have been talking a long time (since May of last year) about doing some "cool stuff" for the Romanian web but because of other commitments, the time just seems to have drifted away...but no longer...decisions have to made, action taken or heads will roll...we've chosen a development framework!

The requirements
~ rapid application development both for work and play
~ build stuff based on data structures but assume that the data structure and business logic will change (it always does)
~ if the data or logic changes, rebuild from scratch if you have to
~ put all the clever stuff into modules separate from the logic and the data that you can just plug in to the new data structure...
~ there should exist both documentation and a large community which actually responds both to newbie questions and esoteric or advanced problems
~ depth of knowledge pool in Romania
~ cool ajaxy plugins would be nice but not at the expense of the above

How we evaluated
~ we read blogs and other reviews on the internet and believed everything we saw - well - it's on the web so must be true...
~ we gave extra points to frameworks with cool videos of full enterprise applications being developed in a lunchbreak
~ the number of lines of code is really important (apparently)
~ if we really really thought it was important to actually try the framework to get a feel of its capabilities then obviously the videos/screencasts were not cool enough so it lost points...

The caveats
~ This is not a technical review...because I would sound oh so stupid if I tried... I won't go into CRUD, MVC (Model View Controller) frameworks, scaffolding, agile development or all the other technical terms - there are brighter people than me who have explained it better...
~ this is not an exaustive list
~ most of this is from memory so I have probably confused a couple of the frameworks - my apologies to all concerned - I will fill in later with links to comments/reviews I bookmarked at the time)

I needed a contact form so I created one today. It uses AJAX so you won't get a refresh. The errors are put in the bottom of the page.

I don't have time now to make a module out of it (but I will at some point) so I'm releasing the code as it is to the public. Instrunctions and contact information are in the archiive.

You can test it at the contact page. Don't be shy, send me a message.

Download the code: drupal-ajax-contact-form.zip (4.7 kb).