AppJet, a new online IDE for developing client or server sided web applications. The IDE supports syntax highlighting, editing, reviewing, and publishing the code within the web browser.
More and more web-based applications are appearing in the market nowadays. One of the greatest is Buzzword, an online word processing program acquired lately by Adobe. Also, Bungee Labs, a beautiful on-demand web based application to develope web applications for free for non-commercial projects.
So there is a web gravity to mobilize computer applications and webitize it. Hmmmm, formula for web gravity = (Web Constant) X (2007) / (Windows + Mac) – (Flash + Ajax)^2 !!!
Warning: Spoiler!
Problem 1: A nerdy web developer is attempting to create an application. He is considering two platform options to work on. One of these options is making the application a web based application. He decided the Windows factor will be 1.3 and Mac to be 1.1, however, the Flash factor is 2.875 and Ajax factor is 3.2. Answer the followings:
a) What is the web gravity value?
b) Should he invest his application on the web?
In selecting an RIA technology, application development professionals should choose AJAX when time-to-market is critical and updates are frequent. Experienced Web developers ramp up on AJAX quickly. AJAX also makes it easy to build RIA capabilities into existing apps with small, frequent releases. Finally, AJAX’s customization capabilities make it possible to tune client frameworks to meet specific application footprints; this makes AJAX the better solution for smaller RIA deployments and for deployments where performance is critical.
So you have been programming with JavaScript? Usually programmers write the JavaScript code in the header of the HTML page or load it externally:
But sometimes there is no need to load some of the JavaScript codes because it won’t be used on the page. That will waste you unnecessary bandwidth and will cost your website users their precious time.
The solution is to load the JavaScript file dynamically only when is required. Ed Eliot posted an article shows how load a JavaScript dynamically. However, loading the JavaScript file asynchronously causes some problems when calling a function written in the loading file. Ed Eliot has written his idea on how to solve this overwhelming problem. He simply uses the event handling to check whether the file finished loading or not. Read more about this in his article.
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.
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!
All the hype and rumors surrounding Microsoft Silverlight in last few days has now come to an end. Microsoft announced that SilverLight 1.1 will be now named SilverLight 2.0. The second installment of SilverLight (Microsoft’s-damn-freaking-way-to-monopolize-the-market) will support C# and Visual Basic of the .NET Framework which is a big plus. That’s a big move from Microsoft to beat down Adobe Flash.
Silverlight 2.0 is still in the development process and will take time to be out in public but the alpha release is out. Many firms and businesses are adopting Silverlight (instead of Flash) for their web applications due . But Flash still dominates the World-Wide-Web with a penetration over 93% for Flash Player 9 and over 99% for previous versions.
The battle between Adobe and Microsoft is still going and Microsoft is catching Adobe fast. If Adobe doesn’t do something fast they could lose this war. Oh god, I can feel the tension between Bruce Chizen and Steve… not that Steve, I meant Steve Ballmer. I don’t expect any gracefulness from anyone of them to the other, but I expect them to speed up the RIA (Rich Internet Application) development process and start working on getting rid of bugs been out there for years!
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.
Making a cross browser web page is a developer’s dream. Everybody likes to make a website that works for every visitor’s machine. For big companies it is very vital to make a website that satisfies every client. If a client can’t browse a company website why should he deal with that company?!
There are many tools out there can help every programmer to create a cross browser web application. This article written by Justin shows some of these tools.
