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.
After thinking for few days, I finally decided to use Google Read to read my subscribed feeds. I was using IE7 to read feeds but I’m facing some problems reading my feeds anywhere I want. I had to get my laptop and open it even though my college is full of computer labs with high speed internet access. I was surprised on the number of feeds I’m registered on. 183 wow… I didn’t know I was subscribed on more than 50 feeds!! Those are the feeds I read every day!
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.
Everyone likes history. History that shaped the world we live in now. Not far ago when the first GUI operating system were released. PCs has been developing fast recently. Just in 25 years GUI has improved as you can see in the pictures below. Here you can find the interesting history of GUI…
I never knew there were Arabic spell checker for OpenOffice until today. Abdul Elah on his blog wrote how to install the Arabic spell checker, Ayaspell, for OpenOffice.
Ayaspell project aims to provide Arabic dictionaries for the free office applications like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird:
– Spellchecking dictionary: hunspell-ar; The dictionary hunspell-ar is based on Hunspell the power and free spellchecker.
– Thesaurus dictionary: thesaurus-ar;
– Morphological lexicon (Grammar-checker): lexicon-ar
Interesting project our Arab fellas doing. I need to keep track of more Arab projects regarding the IT world.
I’m no CSS expert. I used CSS a lot in the past building my CMS, but recently I haven’t done anything in CSS. Deziner Folio posted a great, kick in the ass, article about creating liquid tab or button using CSS and XHTML. The outcome of the design looks great. I might aswell use that method for my future designs.
I want to post more video on iPhone
