YAY! Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch a new website dedicated to provide free online resource for anyone anywhere. You can now watch more than 2,600 videos and audio clips online taken from real lectures for free and for everyone! The website is based on OpenCourseWare (OCW) which provides free lecture notes, exams, and other resources for more than 1,800 real courses.
That a fabulous new for me. Now, it is easier to study whatever I want and whatever I like (if available) with all these resources from MIT. It’s easier to study and find more information for my college courses!!
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.”
If you are one of those guys who still doesn’t know what Social Networking is, then watch this video. It shows you what is social networking in plain english and simple words…!!!
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.
