O’Reilly’s post of History of programming languages is really amazing. They made a poster with dates and timeline of many programming languages. Don’t miss this poster, might come in handy someday!
After being in beta like forever, Dojo 1.0 is out in full release. Dojo is one of the famous JavaSript libraries out there. It is an open source project and has been developed by many talented programmers. Ajax lovers will love this library for all the functionality it provides for developers and how easy life can be when developing with JavaScript.
Here are some features of Dojo 1.0:
Accessibility including keyboard navigation, low vision support, and ARIA markup for assistive technologies
High performance grid widget supporting 100,000+ rows of data
Browser-native 2-D and 3-D charting
A full library of easy-to-use, attractive UI controls
Universal data access for simple and fast data-driven widget development
Internationalization with localizations provided for 13 major languages
CSS-driven themes to make customization and extension simple
Dojo Offline, based on Google Gears, which makes offline applications easy to build
Support for the OpenAjax Alliance Hub 1.0 to guarantee interoperability with other toolkits
Native 2-D and 3-D vector graphics drawing
Access to many more widgets and extensions through the Dojo package system
Is it Halloween nowadays?
It is not that I like Halloween or I celebrate it. FYI, I don’t celebrate it. It is just I want to say and post something. Haven’t been reading my RSS feeds for 4 days now and it is packed with 1997 articles so far. I have to read them all in Sunday because I have an exam tomorrow and another in Saturday and more in Sunday. I also have to submit E-Learning homework on Saturday which will take very long time to write. I wonder how I’ll study for Sunday’s subject. Anyway, my estimation of number of feed articles will be waiting for me on Sunday around 3500 to 4000 feeds to read since my feeds produces on average 500 articles per day and half of that on weekends.
By chance 1997 is the year I start diving in the world of I.T. and programming. Such nice days when I was an 11 years old kid surfing web pages when GIFs animations fills web pages all over the web.
Gotta go back to study, see ya all!
Very long article but great one. Know the history of the language you use!
Here’s the Abstraction:
The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.
Great collection of free badget for web developers/designers. Those are PSD source files!
Wonderful news for all Flex 2 students out there! Adobe Flex 2 is going to be free for education purpose. A detail of this news is available at Yahoo Finance.
After thinking for few days, I finally decided to use Google Read to read my subscribed feeds. I was using IE7 to read feeds but I’m facing some problems reading my feeds anywhere I want. I had to get my laptop and open it even though my college is full of computer labs with high speed internet access. I was surprised on the number of feeds I’m registered on. 183 wow… I didn’t know I was subscribed on more than 50 feeds!! Those are the feeds I read every day!
Paging navigation system might be new concept for some developers. Not many websites out there really uses that method… through thousands of website I browsed, I have only seen that method being used maybe twice. One of those websites is DZone.com.
Paging navigation is good on some situations. Like DZone.com, it is good on browsing a long list of data and maybe for viewing topics and articles but not always. If the page is so long and/or has lots of multimedia components it could slow front-end machines because it will consume resources. An article by Pete Forde talks about the paging system and how to implement it.
