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Let me first preface this review by saying this is the first technical book that I've read cover to cover TWICE prior to posting a review. I had to make sure the stuff stuck, because the material covered in Manning's very excellent "Ajax in Action" is...
I'm trying to incorporate a new feature into my company's CMS that doesn't require population of form fields in a web page. Basically, the system will read a DOC/RTF file from a directory and programmatically extract data to be inserted into a database...
I've been objectively playing with and testing the personalizable portal concepts from Google and Microsoft a lot over the last week, and I'm not alone ( Ben Askins , Eric Hammersley , and Adrian Sutton have a few of the better blogged tests). I've been...
I discovered and have been heavily messing around with CommunityWalk , a very slick web-based mapping service, which allows for all sorts of app mashups, including adding Flickr image galleries to locales. It's got a pretty sizable amount of submissions...
I ran into a problem recently with information I'm importing into a large site I run from a remote provider via XML. The source unfortunately ran into some downtime, causing a user control on which I display the data to timeout, and therefore breaking...
I spent part of the weekend tapping the Google Maps API , developing a custom ASP.NET 1.x app that pinpoints some of the more memorable locations during my brief residency in Seattle ( see my sample here ). Bill Pierce created a .NET custom server control...
Bill Bercik has a nice little Ajax programming tutorial in PHP for dynamically displaying city names and area codes after a user specifices a zip code. The key component of the downloadable source code is a CSV that contains nearly 42,800 zip codes and...
I got an e-mail from Manning Publications about a "screencast" (I'm not sure exactly what that is, but I'm guessing a series of screenshots set against narrated audio) for a "What is Ajax?" presentation. It's 4 minutes long, so it'll be a nice break while...
One thing that I love about using Firefox is being able to set an array of pipe-separated URLs to be used as independent start pages upon startup, via that browser's multi-tabbed UI. I'm the type of guy that prefers using web-based apps, so I typically...
When considering a job in software development at a new company, one of the first things I look for is what platform the company uses. Oftentimes this is THE deciding factor in whether I'll pursue the job or not (and vice-versa). I don't do anything in...
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