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
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.
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.
Interesting post on Josh Sharp Design blog on why we should use framework when developing in PHP.
Because there are less restrictions on the structure of the code you write, it’s much easier to write bad code. But there is a solution: use a framework.
Well done Doshisha University. The lovely Flash intro impressed on how simple Flash intro can be really nice. The whole site is built using Flash and you’ll be amazed seeing the timeline animation. ACM announced the rank list in which includes India on second place and Slovakia on 3rd.
