May 2007
The following is republished from the Tech Times #164. Because I just wasn’t getting enough email (ha!), I joined the W3C’s new HTML Working Group last month. Nearly six months ago, now,... Read More
Semantic markup. Almost every developer who understands the concept, agrees with it, so why are so many people (myself included) often having trouble applying the principles? While no doubt sometimes... Read More
This just in from the marketing department (also known as Shayne, the marketing guy): SitePoint goes mobile I wonder how many people don’t know what PDF stands for. Portable Document Format,... Read More
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has been making a lot of announcements about SilverLight (formerly WPF/E). At NAB, they showcased some of its video abilities and at MIX, they announced that it... Read More
When performance tuning a system, it’s vital that you continually monitor the effect of any changes that you make. Instrumentation should be put in place to provide continual access to... Read More
Client-side Code (jQuery) Now, on to the jQuery front end. First, we need to declare the timestamp of the current message as 0, and call the function that loads the messages from the server:... Read More
Example 2 – Chat with jQuery To demonstrate the true power of jQuery, we’re going to make a fully featured Ajax chat application. This will allow users to post messages, and automatically... Read More
Ajax is changing web applications, giving them a responsiveness that's unheard of beyond the desktop. As Akash shows in this hands-on tutorial, jQuery makes it easy to integrate Ajax into your web... Read More
When I first heard about arbitrage I thought someone was getting a divorce. I’d never heard of arbitrage to describe a market condition. The basic idea of arbitrage is simple: take advantage of... Read More
It’s been an interesting 24 hours for the darling of user-driven content, digg. Upon removing an item regarding the discovery of the processing key that unlocks AACS copy protection (used in both... Read More
In case you missed the hubbub, Microsoft’s marketing machine has gone into rich media overdrive. First, at NAB, they gave WPF/E a reasonably non-geeky name: Silverlight. Mix 07′s keynote was... Read More
