An article for beginners on how to write a better JavaScript code and be a better programmer. It talks about a better way to use getElementByID and to add events. How to write a better send request (for Ajax) and better way to change styles is also a part of the article. It is a small article, so there is no harm for experts to read it and extend their knowledge.
If you have been reading news lately, you might know that Wael Abbas, a journalist who posted videos about police brutality and tutored in Egypt. He got his account shut down on YouTube and few other websites such as Yahoo. After a week of international pressure, YouTube finally agrees to restore his account. Here’s the YouTube official response to Fox News:
“Having reviewed the case, we have restored the account of Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas — and if he chooses to upload the video again with sufficient context so that users can understand his important message we will of course leave it on the site.”
If you are one of those guys who still doesn’t know what Social Networking is, then watch this video. It shows you what is social networking in plain english and simple words…!!!
I got 96% in the geek test! I was like what the hell… Go ahead and do the test. But don’t forget to let me know your result 🙂
Switch blog has a new tutorial post which shows how to create shadows for UI components in Flex. Shadows have become more popular after the release of Visa and Leopard with their ‘shadowed’ dialogs and windows.
As many of you know, Flex is mainly for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using Flash technology. Anything done in Flex can be also done in Flash. But Adobe wants to make life easier for web developers by making Flex a more coding environment and more easy to programmatically create your UI.
While surfing the web and trying to find the meaning of a word I usually use Google Translate. Today I noticed that the English to Arabic and the Arabic to English translator no longer have the word “BETA” next to them. Does that means it’s out of beta? However, the logo still has the sign BETA as you can see on the picture.
I have posted this video before. But I’d like to share it again.
If you’re one of the YouTube’s surfers, you’ll know many of the characters in this video.
I’ve already read this book as previously stated and I’m a fan of it. I loved this book and I’d read it over and over. I think it is one of the best books out there for web developers. I have already read this book as an E-Book, but now SitePoint has a Special Limited Edition of this book with Hard Cover. The limited edition includes a free PDF file and a free Hexadecimal Color Card. Hurry and purchase this awesome book, there will only be 1000 copy for the signature edition. Luckily I was one of those 1000!
