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2008
- Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions: Part 2
- Any value that you use is of a certain type. In JavaScript, there are the following primitive data types: Number, String, Boolean, Undefined and Null. Any value that doesn't belong to one of the five primitive types listed above is an object. By Stoyan Stefanov. 0811
- How to Create a Search Feature with PHP and MySQL
- This week you'll learn how to create a searchable form feature that will query a database table and display current staff member information. Topics include: creating a database table to hold staff listings, a search form, using PHP and (SQL) to capture information and more. By Ryan Butler. 0807
- Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions
- Before diving into the object-oriented features of JavaScript, one needs to look at some of the basics, including: primitive data types, such as strings and numbers, arrays, common operators, flow control statements, etc. By Stoyan Stefanov. 0804
- Giving Caches a Chance
- Though it tends to get treated poorly, HTTP isn't a dumb file-transfer protocol. It allows you to specify an intention with your requests (GET/POST, with PUT and DELETE available) and offers authentication. The focus of this article, however, is about caching. By Marijn Haverbeke. 0730
- Hello Triangle: An OpenGL ES 2.0 Example
- This week you'll learn what's necessary to create an OpenGL ES 2.0 program that draws a single triangle. You'll also learn how to create an on-screen render surface with EGL, load vertex and fragment shaders, create a program object and more. By Aaftab Munshi, Dan Ginsburg, Dave Shreiner. 0728
- Simple Comments Release Notes: v.960
- The number one change in this release is support for OpenID. Other enhancements include: HTML Header/Footer Templates, Article Locking, Support for Unique Display Names, Visitor CAPTCHA Bypass, User E-mails in Comments and more. By Dan Ragle. 0723
- Adding Client Capabilities to Server Controls Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit: Part 2
- The introduction of the Extender Wizard in Visual Studio 2008 has enhanced the design-time experience with regard to working with extender controls. This section explains how to add design-time features of your own to give your controls that professional feel that users enjoy. By Adam Calderon & Joel Rumerman. 0721
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 10
- In the last article, we examined two visual features that could be used to enhance the appearance of the Autocomplete control. This week we'll be delving into the last major functional piece of our Autocomplete Control: key event handlers. By Rob Gravelle. 0716
- Adding Client Capabilities to Server Controls Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
- The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit assists in the development of extender controls, the use of attributes to decorate extender control properties that should be included in the $create statement creation, built-in designer support, and much more. By Adam Calderon & Joel Rumerman. 0714
- JavaScript and HTML Tricks
- In this article you'll learn about a wide variety of tips: from storing and using hidden data to making HTML forms and lists look great. Each topic contains a brief introduction, then details on how to apply the technique. By Joseph Myers. 0711
- Functional Testing
- JMeter is useful and convenient for functional testing. This week, you'll learn how to create a Test Plan and incorporate and/or configure JMeter elements to support functional testing. By Emily H. Halili. 0707
- Book Review: Head First JavaScript
- This book is written for someone who has a good grasp of HTML and CSS, and is looking to extend their capabilities. There are plenty of stimulating tutorials, but most importantly, you'll learn how to create dynamic, eye-popping Web sites. By Lee Underwood. 0703
- Web Hosting Control Panels
- Web hosting is a highly competitive field. Extra features, such as free domain names, site builder and pricing vary widely, but the control panel makes a difference and you have to pick the service which suits your requirements. By IHBO. 0701
- Use Your Blog for Fast Search Engine Rankings
- If you run a Web site and are looking to get it listed quickly with the search engines, there's no easier way than to also include a blog. By Terry Detty. 0625
- Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness - Part 3
- UTF-8 is a standard encoding that works across all Web browsers and is supported by all major text editors and other tools. It supports all Unicode characters and is a good basis for internationalization and localization of pages. By Elliotte Rusty Harold. 0623
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 9
- This week we continue to add functionality and tweak the appearance of our control by implementing search string matching in the list items and by adding a CSS drop shadow effect. By Rob Gravelle. 0618
- New Life for Old Drives
- If you're looking to upgrade to a larger hard drive, add an external hard drive, CD drive or give additional life to a switched-out drive, this system is as simple as it gets. By Lee Underwood. 0616
- How to Use a JavaScript Query String Parser
- In this article you'll learn how to obtain and use the data from the query string portion of the URL by using a JavaScript query string parser. This script is especially useful for people whose Web sites are served by free hosting providers. By Joseph K. Myers. 0612
- Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness - Part 2
- The very first step in moving markup into modern form is to make it well-formed. Well-formedness is the basis of the huge and incredibly powerful XML tool chain. By Elliotte Rusty Harold. 0609
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 8
- This week we look at how to add a vertical scrollbar to the list. We're also going to use a parameter to set the list size, so a vertical scrollbar will appear when the number of items exceeds it. By Rob Gravelle. 0605
- Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness
- The first step in moving markup into modern form is to make it well-formed. Well-formedness guarantees a single unique tree structure for the document that can be operated on by the DOM, thus making it the basis of reliable, cross-browser JavaScript. Elliotte Rusty Harold. 0602
- How to Create Inline Video in WordPress with Camtasia Studio
- This week you'll learn how to embed video from Camtasia Studio in WordPress. The key to making all of this work is the Kimli Flash Embed (KFE) plug-in. The entire process is detailed in this article. By Nathan Segal. 0530
- How to Build a Profitable Opt-In List
- One of the most important aspects of having an online business is a good opt-in list. To have a list is one thing, to make it successful is another. In this article you'll learn how to create an opt-in list - the right way. By Christina Lang. 0527
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 7
- In this series we've built a fully functional Autocomplete control within Eclipse. For the remaining installments, we'll be updating the Autocomplete control's layout to CSS, decoupling it from the Autocomplete.jsp page, tweaking the appearance of the list, and implementing additional functionality. By Rob Gravelle. 0522
- Software Engineering for Ajax - Part 2
- Eclipse provides a nice environment for debugging a running Java application. When launched, the application runs in the hosted mode browser. In Debug mode, the hosted mode browser is connected to Eclipse and can use Eclipse's debugging commands. By Ryan Dewsbury. 0519
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 6
- In part 5 of the series, the AutocompleteList JavaScript file, we wrote the client-side script to manage the behavior of the Autocomplete control in the browser. This week we're going to finish the remaining Web files, including the AutocompleteSearch.jsp page. 0515
- Software Engineering for Ajax
- A great advantage of using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) when building Ajax applications is leveraging advanced software engineering. This week you'll learn how to use the Java software engineering tools in GWT to build high-quality Ajax applications. By Ryan Dewsbury. 0512
- Perl Pragma Primer
- Pragmas in Perl are specific instructions that we can embed in Perl code, depending on our needs and preferences, that allow our scripts to be compiled and behave differently than they would otherwise. In this article, we look at how pragmas work. By Dan Ragle. 0508
- Implement Drag and Drop in Your Web Apps
- This week, we look at how it's implemented. Like all GWT modules, our drag-and-drop module has an XML configuration file. It also has some Java classes and interfaces. David Geary and Rob Gordon. 0505
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 5
- In part 4 of the series, we defined the appearance of our autocomplete control using an external cascading style sheet (CSS). This week we'll create a JavaScript file to manage the behavior of the autocomplete control in the browser. By Rob Gravelle. 0501
- Implement Drag and Drop in Your Web Apps
- With the advent of GWT (Google Web Toolkit), we have drag-and-drop capabilities in a Java-based Web application framework. In this solution, we implement drag and drop in its own module, allowing you to easily incorporate it into your applications. By David Geary and Rob Gordon. 0428
- Email Marketing for MySpace Artists
- The competition for attention on MySpace is intense. Many artists want to stand out from the crowd, but it can be difficult to break through the clutter. Enter email marketing, which gives artists the ability to send out newsletters, targeted email campaigns and more. By Robert Burko. 0423
- Customizing and Managing Your Site's Appearance - Part 3
- When a page that uses a master page (i.e. a content page) is requested, ASP.NET merges the content page and master page together (assuming both have been compiled) by inserting the master page's content at the beginning of the content page's control tree. This means that the master page content is actually a control added to the page. By Randy Connolly. 0421
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 4
- In part 3 of the series, we added the brains behind our Autocomplete text field's search functionality. Now it's time to turn our attention to the Web components. This week we'll create the CSS file, since it, along with the JavaScript file, need to be linked to the AutocompleteSearch.jsp page. By Rob Gravelle. 0416
- Customizing and Managing Your Site's Appearance - Part 2
- This week we'll look at an example that demonstrates the dynamic selection of themes. The page contains no appearance markup, only structured content. All formatting is contained in the theme skins and CSS files. By Randy Connolly. 0414
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 3
- This week we'll be developing the AutocompleteServlet. The servlet acts much like an ASP, Perl or PHP script in that it's executed by the server and accepts parameters from the browser. By Rob Gravelle. 0409
- Customizing and Managing Your Site's Appearance
- ASP.NET 2.0 provides a number of ways to customize the style of pages and controls in your Web application. This week we examine the various properties of Web server controls, how to use CSS with ASP.NET and how to work with themes, master pages and user controls. By Randy Connolly. 0407
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 2
- This week we'll construct the The Fund Java class, which will act as a container for all the fund's properties. On the server, we'll store a collection of funds to be searched. Matching ones will be converted to a JSON array and returned to the browser for displaying in our Autocomplete list. By Rob Gravelle. 0403
- Working With Forms
- Forms are how your users talk to your scripts. To get the most out of PHP, you must master forms. While PHP makes it easy to access form data, you need to take security measures since you cannot trust the data supplied by an HTML form. By William Steinmetz with Brian Ward. 0331
- How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field
- In the last article, you learned how Ajax can be used to link the contents of a select field to a parent one. Now we're going to use Ajax to create an Autocomplete text field using the Eclipse Web Tools Platform with the Apache Tomcat server. By Rob Gravelle. March 27, 2008
- Transparency in Ajax Applications - Part 2
- Beyond the general danger of revealing application logic to potential attackers, there are specific mistakes that programmers make when writing client-side code that can open their applications to attack. By Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan. March 24, 2008
- Black Hat Techniques
- As search engine optimization has grown more popular, so has the use of unethical SEO techniques. After you've read this, you'll know what techniques are underhanded and which are acceptable. By Terry Detty. March 21, 2008
- Transparency in Ajax Applications
- An average user might not be aware that the logic of the Ajax application is more exposed than that of the standard Web page. It's relatively simple for an advanced user (or an attacker) to "look inside" and gain knowledge about the internal workings of the application. By Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan. March 17, 2008
- How to Gain the Trust of Your List
- When building a list, a key ingredient is to consistently offer valuable and products and services, free of charge. Doing so will enable you to obtain the trust of your clients. This article shows you how. By Steve Renner. March 12, 2008
- Joomla Templates: Creating a Pure CSS Template - Part 4
- This installment takes a look at how to make a Joomla 1.5 template. It begins with a comp, the design which is the basis of the template. From there it covers slicing (creating small sliced images), setting up module locations, column backgrounds and more. By Barrie North. March 10, 2008
- Opening the Source on Your Host
- In this article you'll learn how to configure Apache to allow your visitors to learn from (or offer advice on) your source code through browsing it in much the same way that they would browse your ordinary Web pages. By Stephen Philbin. March 5, 2008
- Joomla Templates: Creating a Pure CSS Template - Part 3
- This installment takes a look at modules in templates, menus in templates, hiding columns and module code. All of this creates a pure CSS layout that has dynamic collapsible columns. By Barrie North. March 3, 2008
- An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON for short, is a lightweight data-interchange format which may prove to be a viable alternative to XML for IT developers. It's easy to read and write by people as well as for machines to parse and generate. By Rob Gravelle. February 27, 2008
- Why Trackbacks are Useful For Blogs
- This week we're going to look at trackbacks - what they are, how they work, why they're important to blog traffic and how to get more. By Terry Detty. February 25, 2008
- Metrics with E-mail Marketing Software
- With the right e-mail marketing application, the days of blindly conducting marketing are a thing of the past. In this article you'll learn about several key methods of using the reports from your e-mail marketing application to boost your results. By Robert Burko. February 21, 2008
- Software Review: A1 Sitemap Generator
- Sitemaps are now being used by search engines to index Web sites, which can help improve your site's rankings. To quickly generate a sitemap, you need a script or a program. One of these is the A1 Sitemap Generator, the subject of this review. By Lee Underwood. February 14, 2008
- Joomla Templates: Creating a Pure CSS Template
- This week you'll learn how to create a Joomla template that uses Cascading Style Sheets to produce a layout. This makes the template code easier to validate. It also tends to load faster and is easier to maintain. By Barrie North. February 11, 2008
- Universally Related Popup Menus Ajax Edition: Part 3
- This installment concludes the series with a line-by-line walk through of the JavaScript code and describe the server-side classic ASP script code. By Rob Gravelle. February 6, 2008
- Page Structuring Using Cascading Style Sheets: Part 2
- This week we look at how to modify AP element properties with the AP elements panel, design tableless Web pages with AP elements, work with built-in CSS page layouts and more. By Zak Ruvalcaba. February 4, 2008
- Universally Related Popup Menus Ajax Edition - Part 2
- Last week we looked at a brief overview of Ajax, relevant JavaScript 1.3 enhancements, how to run the example and using the script within your own Web page. This week we look at additional functionality that you'd like to add to scripts and an in-depth explanation of the JavaScript code. By Rob Gravelle. January 30, 2008
- Page Structuring Using Cascading Style Sheets: Part 1
- In this first installment you'll learn about AP (or Absolutely Positioned) Elements. These are CSS-driven "content blocks" in Dreamweaver that can contain text, images, media elements and more. Additionally, you can freely position the AP Element anywhere you want on a page. By Zak Ruvalcaba. January 28, 2008
- Universally Related Popup Menus Ajax Edition - Part 1
- This week we look at a brief overview of Ajax, some relevant JavaScript 1.3 enhancements, how to run the example and using the script within your own Web page. By Rob Gravelle. January 23, 2008
- Using Multiple JavaScript Onload Functions
- JavaScripts are usually written to accomplish a given task, such as creating a rotating picture gallery, or to validate a form. For each task, a separate script is necessary. Often, a script is called using an onload function. Using the onload event handler can sometimes be a bit tricky. Check out this easy, fool-proof method for use in your next script. By Lee Underwood. January 21, 2008
- Inside Camtasia Studio 5 - Part 6: PowerPoint
- This is the last installment of this series. In it, you'll have a look at recording, editing and producing PowerPoint recordings, as well as additional tips. By Nathan Segal. January 17, 2008
- How to Write and Publish Articles for the Internet
- Want to generate more traffic? Write articles. Articles are a great way answer client questions, drive traffic to your Web site and be seen as an expert in your field. By Terry Stanfield. January 14, 2008
- How to Build a Web Design Business - Part 2
- This week we discuss the skills and knowledge needed to succeed as a Web designer, such as knowledge of HTML, CSS, browser issues, programming knowledge, e-commerce shopping carts and more. By Peggie Brown. January 10, 2008
- Top Online Marketing Techniques
- In this article you'll learn about several effective online marketing techniques (such as article writing for ezines, blogging, joint ventures, etc.) and how to implement them. By Terri Seymour. January 7, 2008
- Inside Camtasia Studio 5 - Part 5: Production Improvements
- This week we look at some of the production improvements, such as Flash SWF recommendations, Express Show, additional playback options, the onyx template for video instead of SWF, and options for sharing your video, including FTP and Screencast. By Nathan Segal. January 4, 2008
- the Top 5 Email Marketing Uses in 2007
- Email marketing experienced another year of explosive growth. With so many new businesses putting email marketing software to work, there's been increased activity in almost every vertical market imaginable. By Robert Burko. January 2, 2008
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