Linksgrid – Enhancements and Conclusion

As with any software product there is always scope for enhancements, linksgrid is no exception. What I tried to do here is to show a different approach for developing Web 2.0 portal with dynamic content loading and user personalization. I also tried to achieve balance between complexity of coding and ease of implementation. Asp.net MVC , Ajax Client Templates and jQuery brings this balance very well by drastically improving productivity of client side programming which is rather complex when written in conventional plain old javascript. Asp.net MVC’s RESTful url based services enhances ease of implementation of AJAX.

If you followed this series from the beginning you might have noticed that, I incrementally added features to the portal. The first enhancement I would do is to clean up javascript framework and improve initial page load behavior. For example the current implementation doesn’t load any JSON on first call to the server, then multiple subsequent calls are made to load widget-list, tab-list, gallery-list etc., All these can be combined into one single JSON object and can be returned on the first call itself. This will improve a little bit of performance as it reduces number of calls to server.

I encourage you to download the latest code and play with it. If you find any problem or have a question, please use http://code.google.com/p/linksgrid/issues/list to post your issues; you are welcome to post a comment in this blog also.

If you find this project helped in one or other way please let me know… I will list your implementation in this blog.

Finally, most important… If any one of you fixed any problem or added a cool new feature to linksgrid, please share code with me.

I wish you enjoyed this series as much as I enjoyed writing and sharing my ideas with you on the project.

Thanks for the support and encouragement I got from you all.

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