Hearing of Flex or Adobe Flex a lot without any idea what the hell does it mean? If yes, then here is a new published post in Ted’s blog talking about Flex and what is Flex.
AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime, is one of the new technologies introduced by Adobe to create a desktop applications using Flash/Flex. To get started with AIR, a new tutorial published to teach the basics of AIR and how to get started.
If you are a web developer you’ll know how important WYSIWYG text editors for anyone’s website. Usually based on JavaScript — call it Ajax or DHTML it doesn’t matter — you can have a text box in where the user enter whatever to submit and he/she can edit the font color and style, add pictures, and insert a link without writing the HTML code for it. In addition, you can see what you did in real time just like word processing program! This technique is ‘kinda’ old but these WYSIWYG is getting more complex lately. The UI of WYSIWYG is much better now than how it used to look like few years back.
Deziner Folio published a new article that shows a variety of WYSIWYG applications for Drupal CMS.
P.S: WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get.
UI = User Interface, lately is being called UX which refers to User Experience.
Okay this one of the best articles I have read during the year. The author starts off talking about the Quite Structure design concept. Then he goes off explaining and comparing the between CNN and USA Today website design. For web designers this is a most-read article as it gives more and deeper ideas to consider when designing a webpage such as layout and image with text positioning, logo complexity, white spaces… etc.
For whoever is interested, I got a project for my E-Learning course and I have to advertise my online class as a homework. If you are interested in Arabic online course for Actionscript you can visit it here:
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The winner of Aral Balkan‘s SWX contest has been announced few hours ago. For more information check out SWX blog.
Bored from the div attribute of HTML? Well, I am bored myself and I have been writing HTML 4 since I was in Middle School. We have been using HTML 4 for almost a decade and it really needs an upgrade. In fact, W3C and WHATWG have been working on setting the specification of HTML 5. Major browsers companies and groups are taking part in setting some specifications of HTML 5, but I don’t think it will be done soon.
A List Apart has a really great article on HTML 5 preview which I really encourage all web developers to read it.
Roshan posted in his blog some reasons of why PHP is a bad programming langauges in his oppinion. Unfortunately, I disagree in some of the points Roshan pointed out.
1) No need to define and declare variable
2) No Strict data conversion
I can’t see how these two points can make PHP a bad programming language. PHP just let the interpreter binds the variable to a type.
In my opinion, dynamic type binding provides a great deal of flexibility in programming. You don’t have to know the type of the data input to be able to process it. However, that flexibility advantage is not free. It will cost us the speed of detecting the type of the assigned value each time a new value is assign to the variable.
4) No namespaces
Namespace will be introduced in PHP 5.3.
6) Seldom use of Framework
It depends on the developers and the size of the project. There are many Frameworks available and for free. But when some, or many, developers decided not to use Framework in their projects I can’t see how it makes PHP a bad programming language. Like any other programming languages, you can always not use framework for any kind of project.
what i think, PHP is a incomplete programming language as well as a bad programming language which gives bad practise for the programmers.
It can’t be true. PHP is one of the famous programming languages (after Java) and one of the most used. Many companies and organizations prefer LAMP developers than any kinds of web developers. PHP is still growing and you can find almost any sample of codes available all over the web.
VCP-310 test focuses on the VMware product lines and as well on the ESX server. 640-802 judges a candidate’s abilities and skills needed to install, operate, as well as troubleshoot medium size company branch network. 70-290 and 70-291 enables you to learn about connectivity needs for example connecting branch offices and individual users in remote places to the company network. The MCSE on Windows Server 2003 is a requirement and basic criteria for 70-649.
Adobe has announced the BlazeDS beta release on Adobe labs. Now you can connect data between your Flash application and any other applications whether it is made by PHP, Ruby…etc.
Now, developers can easily connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications, for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.
Ajaxian‘s Ajax survey shows that Prototype is the most used framework for Javascript and Ajax. That’s really shocking, or at least for me, I never though Prototype is that famous. But still, Dojo is my favorite 🙂
