Ramadan is the ninth month in Islamic lunar calendar. It is a month when all Muslims fast and put more efforts on praying, reading the Holy Qur’an, and all kinds of worship to get closer to God (Allah).
As predicted, Adobe now is taking a wider deployment of rich content lured by the competition of Microsoft. The battle field, if I may say, is starting to heat up while flash players installs is closing in to 3 billion. Ted Patrick announced the next version of flash player (codename Astro) is going to be shown off at MAX 2007 Chicago. More details is posted in Ted’s post.
Need to know more about Ajax?
Want an example on using Ajax? (using ColdFusion)
If yes, then here is the article in Ajax World Magazine.
I also posted a few weeks ago about ajax here.
SWX gone from alpha to beta to release candidate, and now to version 1.0, announced yesterday on Aral Balkan’s blog.
More information about SWX can be found in http://swxformat.org.
Microsoft announced the release to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com.
SilverLight is an application to create rich internet applications that competes Flash/Flex. Microsoft can only hope to catch us with Flash Player penetration.
From PHP Classes blog: Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.
This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses. Anyway, here is the post.
Here’s the main topic will be discussed:
– The browser side also matters
– YSlow 13 optimization rules
– Too much AJAX and external Javascript may kill your page performance
– Compacting Javascript files
– Minimization versus HTTP compression
– Lighttpd: a fast HTTP server worth your attention
– So, how does the PHPClasses site perform?
– A much faster site for premium subscribers
– Free premium subscription trials
– Your performance rules
