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Participate In The Open Source Census
[2008-04-22] Just read about the launch of "The Open Source Census". This is the next step in OpenLogic's efforts to get a better sense of which OSS products are actually used in enterprises.
RIA Vendor Curl Shifts To Eclipse
[2008-04-08] Rich Internet Application (RIA) vendor Curl, named InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year in the RIA category, announced that they will be rebasing the Curl IDE on Eclipse.
Open Source BlueDragon
[2008-03-11] In a move that has surprised some folks, New Atlanta has announced plans to create a free open source version of their J2EE BlueDragon product. They will continue to develop, sell and support a commercial version of it, as well as continuing the .NET version and the standalone JX version (neither of which will be open sourced).
A First Look At Grails
[2008-02-12] There's still a lot of buzz about Ruby on Rails and I've played around with it but I really don't like the Ruby syntax.
Spry's Cool HTML Panel
[2007-11-06] A few days ago I blogged about Spry's HTML panel. This is a rather cool, and simple, way to load content into a region of your web page via Ajax.
An Old School AJAX Call that Just Works
[2007-10-22] Today I was working on a web page that performs an AJAX call on unload, so when a person navigates away from the page, the AJAX call is triggered.
Code from ColdFusion Boot Camp & Tip about ColdFusion 8 and JSON
[2007-10-03] I just gave a quick CF Boot Camp at MAX on using ColdFusion to send data to Spry. It covers going from static to CF6, CF7, and CF8 dynamic data.
Custom Grid Renderers w/ CFGRID
[2007-08-21] I've been playing a bit with CFGRID lately (as have others) and I found that by taking a look at Ext's documentation, there are some very powerful features hiding within the CFGRID tag.
Time to Unleash Web 2.0 with Open Source
[2007-07-31] Web 2.0 companies are largely built upon Open Source software. But how many of them do you consider significant contributors to Open Source?
Comment the Class Before Coding
[2007-06-11] The planning phase of most projects no matter the size result in some kind of documentation or manuals for coding.
Design / Development Hacks to Save Time & Money
[2007-05-29] I have been writing too many in theory type posts, so here is a post offering many practical tips to increase productivity and lower your site development costs.
Direct Web Remoting (DWR)
[2007-04-11] DWR is a process that stores the java classes back on the server rather than passing those classes to the web browser.
The Ultimate Wordpress Htaccess File
[2007-04-03] Canonicalization is a serious problem for webmasters, just read this latest entry by Matt Cutts or this great post from John Andrews.
Psychological Variables & Properties
[2007-03-13] I've noticed that there are two different ways developers locate private variables used by properties.
Spry - Checking for a Valid URL
[2007-02-27] There has been a UDF released for a while now that would check to see if a URL is valid. Ben wrote urlExists over a year ago.
JavaScript Badges, Widgets Considered Harmful
[2007-02-13] For a long time now I've been meaning to write about the seemingly ubiquitous JavaScript Badges/Widgets/Thingies that you see on blogs and web sites everywhere.
ASP.NET: Access Client Info Server-side
[2007-01-29] I was playing around with HTTP request headers and for some reason started thinking about how limited information they provide about the requesting browser.
Creating Web2.0 Apps w/ AJAX & Clientside HTTP Requests
[2007-01-16] Web2.0 is a term coined to refer to web applications that run without visible page refreshes. A normal website functions by delivering pages of information, with links that allow a user to move from page to page.
Data Saving in Case of Browser Crashes
[2007-01-02] So a few days ago I posted a question on the BlogCFC blog about whether I should add "crash protection" to the BlogCFC entry editor.
ASP.NET 2.0: Asynchronous Pages
[2006-12-12] In ASP.NET 2.0 it is now possible to create asynchronous pages in a very simple and easy way.
Effects of HTTP Acceleration / Compression
[2006-11-28] There are plenty of reasons visitors convert and even more reasons they don't. The site's layout, color choices, word choices and call to action, button/anchor text, layout, nomenclature and similar factors all have an impact on a site's conversion rate. These are factors that you can manage and control.
.NET Resource Editor App for .resx Files
[2006-10-31] Working with resource files (.resx) in Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005 is very easy and straightforward.
ASP.NET Client-Callback - Simplicity vs. Performance
[2006-10-16] In light of the rising popularity of AJAX during the last couple of years, Microsoft wanted to include the feature natively into ASP.NET's object model.
Subversion 1.4 Slips Onto The Web
[2006-09-19] The latest version of the popular alternative versioning system to CVS recently emerged with some new features.
Developing That Web Style
[2006-09-05] Cascading Style Sheet standards compliance resided at the base of many complaints about Internet Explorer; its developers have made efforts to follow the standards better with IE 7, and for good reason as CSS can make a web developer's life easier.
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