Jeffrey Hammond, a senior analyst, writes about whether to choose Ajax or Flash for business web application. In addition, he shows some advantages and disadvantages of both technologies and when to choose the each one of them.
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.
The much anticipated open-source IDE, Netbeans 6.0, has been released and available for download. The IDE Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris and easy to install. In addition, Netbeans supports many languages including Ruby.
The screencast is also available if you want to know more about it.
Graphing is an important tool for business. In fact, my first freelancing Flash program was about graphing. A new tutorial by W. Jason Gilmore in Developer.com about using PHP/SWF Charts system to create a chart/graph has been posted.
PHP/SWF supports a wide variety of charting formats, including bar, candlestick, 3D columns, pie, 3D pie, and advanced charts such as scatter, polar, and composites.
He starts off by showing how to install the charting system. After that he goes into coding and shows an example of using bar chart. He also shows how to use a 3D column chart which really looks amazing!
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar lanuches a Design Competition for all high school seniors from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. The award is a four-year scholarship in VCUQ. Dealine is 31st of January, 2008. So hurry and sign-up…
Zain, the third-biggest Gulf Arab mobile telecommunication firm by market value, concluded the purchase of 100% of share capital of Iraqna company for mobile telecommunication services in Iraq. The acquisition costs $1,2 billion and was made through MTC-Atheer, Zain’s Iraqi subsidiary, which was one of the 3 mobile telecommunication firms operating in Iraq.
Commenting on the transaction, Dr. Saad Al Barrak, Managing Director-Deputy Chairman of Zain Group, stated:”We are delighted that MTC-Atheer acquisition if Iraqna will create one of the most dynamic and resourceful mobile telecoms companies in Iraq and in the region at large
This investment reinforces and demonstrates our commitment to the future prosperity of Iraq while complementing Zain’s aspirations of becoming a top ten global mobile operator by 2011.”
– Zawaya
Zain has been expanding their market, and now they cover 20 countries across the Middle East and Africa. The firm, formally called MTC started in Kuwait, is now in the process of building the 3rd Saudia Arabian mobile phone network firm.
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.
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.”
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.
