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Core CSS: Part III Refcard Available - Download Now

jill — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:31:50 +0000

The goal of the Core CSS series is to ensure that readers are empowered to understand the areas of CSS that are unclear and confusing, as well as give insight into the way browsers behave. In this third and final refcard in the Core CSS series we turn ourattention to the visual models that exist within CSS. You’ll learn notonly about how visual models work, but how to troubleshoot and...

Video: Google's HTML 5 Work: What's Next?

alashcraft — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:45:46 +0000

Presented by Matthew Papakipos.Learn about new features in HTML 5 that enhance and enrich the web experience. Learn about new features in HTML 5, how they'll be supported in Chrome, and our latest plans for new functionality. The web browser is quickly evolving into a rich platform with access to all the capabilities that your computer has to offer. This talk will help you understand what is...

Introduction to the Tide framework for Flex 3

wdrai — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:13:41 +0000

Tide is an open source application framework for Adobe Flex that has been part of the Granite Data Services project for more than one year. It was developed at first to build complex applications with a clean architecture while being easy to use and avoid useless boilerplate code when possible. Later it has been improved with more advanced features such as dependency injection, a client data...

What is the Appeal of Ajax and GWT?

rauschma — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:14:48 +0000

Ajax does have its detractors. Their argument goes as follows: Why reinvent everything that has already been done on the desktop on an inferior platform? I do agree that the attraction of Ajax is subjective (i.e., not based on technological arguments). This is obvious whenever I’m excited about something web-based, show it to non-developer friends and their only reaction is boredom. Then I...

Google I/O 2009 - AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content

alashcraft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:15:44 +0000

Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the code behind Vast Rank's "Ranking Map" that provides contextual College Rankings based on what a user has in view on his or her Map. Code examples will be shown utilizing the Google Maps API, the Google Maps Marker Manager, the...

Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers

simonech — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:20:16 +0000

Almost one month ago I created a survey in order to try and understand how .NET developers are using Ajax. And also to compare it with the results I collected at the end of 2007.References Reference: Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers alashcraft ...

Does jQuery Make Us Lazy?

DaveMBush — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:04:55 +0000

Yesterday I read a post that proposed that using jQuery as the answer to every JavaScript problem makes us lazy programmers.This is not what I was expecting to hear since the post was titled, “Is jQuery always the answer?” To that, I could easily agree, no it is not.References Reference: Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? ...

.NET Fireside Chats - Nick Berardi on 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming'

alashcraft — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:20:25 +0000

Microsoft recently released the ASP.NET MVC Framework version 1.0. As a result, there are several recent titles which focus on the MVC Framework. One of those titles from Wiley/Wrox is 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution' written by Nick Berardi, Al Katawazi and Marco Bellinaso. You can download a sample chapter of the book here. Article Resources: ...

Getting Started With Drupal Refcard Released: Meet The Author

jsugrue — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:53:54 +0000

This week DZone releases the Getting Started with Drupal refcard showing you how to create a site using Drupal, and how to develop your own modules. I spoke with the author, Matt Vance, to find out more about Drupal, and what it involves. James Sugrue

A Comparison of Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta

jlafferty — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:22:22 +0000

The Flex 4 (codename: Gumbo) beta release is a major change from Flex 3. The Flex 4 beta introduces a new component and skinning architecture. As a Flex 3 developer, however, you will likely not encounter too many challenges when compiling Flex 3 applications with the Flex 4 beta, since a goal of the new release is to maintain backwards compatibility with Flex 3. References ...

Learning Dojo

dr_pompeii — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:38:30 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 1847192688 Book Author(s): Peter Svensson Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: November 2008 One...

XUL Based Web Applications. Why Not?

jmarranz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:27:38 +0000

I have just done some support for remote XUL applications in ItsNat (not public yet). Maybe you do not know XUL - XUL is the web component system based on web technologies included in Gecko based browsers (for instance FireFox). It is not new, as the first release of Mozilla (v1.0) almost 10 years ago, included this technology. The chrome of FireFox uses XUL, that is, menus, buttons, toolbars,...

What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta

tbuntel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:03:13 +0000

The entire Adobe Flex team is delighted to introduce you to Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta, formerly known as Adobe Flex Builder. Over the past eighteen months, we've been working to evolve more than just the name of the product.References Nitin Bharti

Thoughts on Google Wave

vambenepe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:24:15 +0000

If you’re not yet seasick with all the reviews of Google Wave, here are a few additional thoughts. My mental picture for a Wave is that of an IRC channel on which each message is an edit to an XML doc. And where the IRC server (or a bot, like Zakim) keeps a log of all messages.References Reference: me thinks Google Wave looks like IRC ...

AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition

keyvan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:58:01 +0000

Back in December 2007, Simone published an online survey about the usage of AJAX technologies among the .NET developers and after a short while, shared its interesting results with the community.References Reference: AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition alashcraft ...