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Backbone.js Meets RESTful Web Services

geertjan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:22:19 +0000

In NetBeans IDE 7.3, a Backbone.js file can be generated from a RESTful web service. The Backbone.js file contains complete CRUD functionality and your HTML5 application can immediately be deployed to make use of those features. Coupled with the NetBeans IDE two-way editing support for HTML5, via interaction with WebKit in Chrome, Backbone.js users have a completely new and powerful tool for...

Pushing Ajax Responses using Observer Pattern in JavaScript

sagar.sjg — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:58:18 +0000

Last week I'd played around with couple of design patterns in JavaScript (Constructor and Module pattern). I really liked the Module pattern i.e. the approach taken in JavaScript to enable encapsulation of data in a Class (functions in JavaScript). Preview Text: In my application, I was trying to fetch tweets by sending an Ajax request to...

3 Augmented Reality Frameworks for Windows Phone

Darkside — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:01:57 +0000

Introduction Augmented reality (AR) solutions and projects are seen as that next step for a user interface or experience that melds technology with the real world. With the embedding of AR camera features in devices such as the Nintendo 3DS (and you don’t even need to buy a game to play around with it), GPS recognition systems, and audio detection, AR is slowly becoming mainstream. ...

Modularity with WPF, Prism and Unity - The "How-To" Resource

gduncan411 — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:36:08 +0000

Visual Studio Magazine - Creating Modularity with WPF, Prism and Unity Preview Text: Prism lets you turn your XAML file into a true view, supported by a completely separate ViewModel class. Unity gives you runtime flexibility during the composition phase. Here is how to combine these two frameworks with WPF. Legacy ...

Silverlight Clients Playing Nice With Java: REST with JAX-RS

arnonrgo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:56:44 +0000

A while back I worked on a RESTful service using Jersey (not my first choice, but a reasonable compromise). It is hosted inside FuseESB and all is well. Here’s an overly simplified version of the resource that reports status: Preview Text: While I think Silverlight is a technology on its way out. It is still around and it is nice to know that...

When to use JavaFX 2 instead of HTML5 for a Rich Internet Application (RIA)?

megachucky — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:02:20 +0000

These days, we are starting a new project for realizing a Rich Internet Application (RIA). One of the first questions is: Which technologies and frameworks shall we use? The backend will be Java or another modern JVM language, as we are mainly experienced Java developer. In most use cases, we also prefer web frameworks, which allow to code mostly in Java, as many of us just have basic...

Analyzing Search Results for Fun and Profit

hull_j — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:39:00 +0000

In a previous post, we looked at the first two components of the success of search: the density of highlighted search terms and the placement within the search engine results page. However, there are times when the science of a search engine does not match the art of marketing. Preview Text: The web manager and an marketing department should...

Flash-like Editing Tool, Adobe Edge, For JavaScript Animation: Tutorial

mitchp — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:14:19 +0000

This is a tutorial and example of an Adobe Edge Application being built. It's similar to flash, yet it uses JavaScript rather than ActionScript. Download preview 5 here. About Edge: Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Preview...

DZone Top Article of 2011: Ask DZ - What's the best programming advice you've ever got?

johnesposito — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:57:53 +0000

For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it was so good? Maybe include some particular projects the advice helped you with, or how the advice improved your general approach to development, etc.Legacy Article Type: Opinion/Editorial ...

Input Controls in Silverlight

ahaubner — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:54:40 +0000

So far I didn’t spent much time on Input Controls. When I needed an example, I just quickly created a project that probably would contain a textbox control, a textblock control and/or a button control. But as I have seen on other applications, there are other types of Input Controls that are used to allow the user to input different types of information. Today I am getting a little...

The XNA 2D “from the ground up” tutorial series

Darkside — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:39:45 +0000

Some time ago when I first started posting on XNA-UK (not my first posts ever, just when I joined XNA-UK), I focused on a very detailed 2D game development series. It started with an original 2D tutorial series that was based on C# and DirectX run by the DigiPen institute (A game development collage in the US). What was good about this series is that it was one of the ones that got me...

Creating Buttons in Expression Blend

ahaubner — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:56:26 +0000

When I create an application, I am thinking about making the UI as appealing to the user as possible. The first thing the user sees from my application is the little icon in a long list of applications. Let’s assume the user likes this icon. Then most likely the user will read the description, and when I am lucky the user likes it. The next thing the user does is checking out the...

XAML Dev’s Favorite Snippet

Jerry Nixon — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:51:40 +0000

Data binding in XAML is powerful. We can wire up forms without code-behind. However, for it to work, data bound objects must implement INotifyPropertyChanged. Without this interface, object property value changes are not reflected in the UI. Objects implement properties two ways. The first method (use the snippet “prop”) is to simply create the property. We’ve all done it. It’s like...

Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight

punitganshani — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:51:40 +0000

Let’s assume that you have a paint application. A user can draw, modify pictures, save it, retrieve it back and even share it. Now with such an application, you would want to enhance the user experience by allowing him customize the user-interface. So user changes the background color, fonts, etc and closes the application.Legacy Article Type: ...

Understanding XAML Syntax

ahaubner — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:51:40 +0000

In yesterday’s blog post I was taking a first closer look at XAML. I’d like to continue at exactly the same point. XAML is a programming language that is created in such a way that it is focused on defining the design or the layout for a Silverlight application. It is characterized by a series of opening and closing tags. XAML-files are hierarchically structured. Legacy Article...