Once in a while I’m stumbling on switch statements during a Code Review session. Whenever this is happening my first reaction is to understand why did the developer use it. Since using switch statement sometime implies spaghetti code and also can get very crowded (in case statements of course) in this post I’m going to show an alternative method that I pr...

Demonstration of a few of the different ways to dynamically invoke Groovy code within a Java environment.

Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines. This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.

Create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn't have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it's helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS.

In my previous post I talked about the impact of jQuery Selectors on a page that I analyzed. The page took 4.8 seconds in the onLoad event handler. 2 seconds were mainly caused by the selectors as described in the blog. The other 2.8 seconds were caused by a dynamic JavaScript menu – in that particular case it was the superfish jQuery plugin. A closer analysis showed why it takes so long and this also got me to do some research on these menus. Kudos to Joel Birch for his excellent plugin – easy to integrate – and – if properly used – its fast enough

This text compares Java's two stream oriented XML parsers, SAX and StAX, and explains the difference in a "push" model and "pull" model. It also lists other differences in these two API's. If you have ever wondered which of these two API's to use, this text may help you decide.

The last topic I want to cover about the Windows 7 taskbar is the Jumplist!!! To create a new JumpList, call CreateJumpList()

Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to learn how to implement our first jQuery plug-in.

I decided to move to KO3 and ditch the 2.3.x tutorial series. 1st part, configuring and creating a simple controller.

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on Multi-Threading in C#. Before we even think about looking at any code, I think first, since this is the intro tutorial, we need to discuss what multi-threading is, and how it can benefit your application. We will also discuss some short falls in multi-threading capabilities.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.

Demonstrates the usage of Drag and Drop with the Eclipse framework.