Web Dev

See this at: regdeveloper.co.uk| Added on 06/20/06

Tutorial Suppose you fill out a form that requires a unique field value, for example a userid in a registration form. Ordinarily, you would specify a userid value and the other field values and submit the form with the Submit button. If the userid is... See more

Tutorial Suppose you fill out a form that requires a unique field value, for example a userid in a registration form. Ordinarily, you would specify a userid value and the other field values and submit the form with the Submit button. If the userid is not already taken you would be able to register, but if the userid is taken you would get a message that the user id value is invalid and you would have to fill out and resubmit the entire form. With the AJAX web technique the userid value may be validated at the time the value is specified in the input form, thus avoiding any need to resubmit the form. In the previous AJAX tutorial, we introduced the AJAX technology and performed the preliminary setup for a sample AJAX application. Now, we shall run the AJAX application we configured in the previous article. The example AJAX application validates data input in an HTML form. The input form requires a unique CatalogId to create a catalogue entry, so the input CatalogId in the form is... See less

Highlights: * 12 Finalists Announced in $10,000 Made in Express Contest * Get Your Applications Ready for Windows Vista

See this at: boxesandarrows.com| Added on 06/12/06

Mention the use of HTML for wireframing or prototyping, and some information architects and interaction designers frantically look for the nearest exit. In some circles, HTML has acquired the reputation of being a time-consuming, difficult... See more

Mention the use of HTML for wireframing or prototyping, and some information architects and interaction designers frantically look for the nearest exit. In some circles, HTML has acquired the reputation of being a time-consuming, difficult undertaking best left to developers. I’m here to convince you that this is very far from the truth. In fact, using HTML as the basis for your wireframing and prototyping can be a quick and rewarding experience with fabulous benefits, including easier user testing, improved client communication, and faster, more effective use of design time. As a matter of fact, at Sliced Bread Design, Dreamweaver is the ONLY tool we use for our wireframes, and we love it. For those of you who may stop right now because you don’t know how to do HTML, let’s first discuss why you would want to use it. Then, read the HTML Wireframing Primer to find out how to do it yourself. See less

See this at: urlgreyhot.com| Added on 05/16/06

The previous grid article dealt with how to come up with a CSS strategy when you're working with another visual designer's comps. Now I'd like to discuss doing grid-based theme design for open source content management systems, e.g. Drupal and... See more

The previous grid article dealt with how to come up with a CSS strategy when you're working with another visual designer's comps. Now I'd like to discuss doing grid-based theme design for open source content management systems, e.g. Drupal and WordPress. The purpose of this article is to give you an idea of how to approach blog theme design using a grid system. After reading this, you should be able to create a fully-functional grid-based design and HTML prototype that can be coverted into a theme template. See less

See this at: csscreator.com| Added on 05/16/06

If you're interested in building websites that will work now and into the future, this two day workshop is for you. Cameron Adams and Russ Weakley have put together an exclusive workshop for designers and developers. Day 1 - CSS making valid semantic... See more

If you're interested in building websites that will work now and into the future, this two day workshop is for you. Cameron Adams and Russ Weakley have put together an exclusive workshop for designers and developers. Day 1 - CSS making valid semantic markup understanding CSS rule structure and selectors writing efficient CSS code building cross-browser stable CSS layouts creating layouts that are fully expandable dealing with browser bugs and layout variations See less

See this at: regdeveloper.co.uk| Added on 05/14/06

Sometimes it seems that you’ve waited ages for an AJAX framework to come along, and then suddenly there’s a whole queue of them lined up, ready for testing. The latest to join the line up is Macromedia - sorry, Adobe now - with its Spry AJAX... See more

Sometimes it seems that you’ve waited ages for an AJAX framework to come along, and then suddenly there’s a whole queue of them lined up, ready for testing. The latest to join the line up is Macromedia - sorry, Adobe now - with its Spry AJAX framework, which you can download here. Announced and demonstrated last week at The AJAX Experience conference in San Francisco, Spry builds on work done with Flash and Flex, and focuses on working with XML data, as well as providing display widgets and effects. With tools to handle master-detail relationships Spry is an effective way of building, and “AJAXifying”, the type of user interface that’s become familiar to anyone building Flash applications. It’s also a lot easier to code than traditional AJAX approaches… While Spry comes with a set of its own user interface widgets, it can also be linked directly to Flash components – using FABridge, a set of features from the Flex development team that allow Flash to be controlled by external... See less

Highlights: * C# Web Developer (£25-33,000, London) * Technical Consultant Java / J2EE, Unix / NT, XML (55000Euros, Stockholm, Paris) * PHP Web Developer / E-Commerce / HTML / Flash / Coventry / Rugby (£20k - £25k pa + Excellen, Coventry) * Content Editor / Web developer - Glos / Wilts (£25-30K,...

See this at: pragmaticprogrammer....| Added on 05/03/06

Now there's no need for you to choose between the ease of deployment of a web page and the interactive features of a rich desktop application. Ajax redefines the user experience for web applications. Your application can provide a compelling user... See more

Now there's no need for you to choose between the ease of deployment of a web page and the interactive features of a rich desktop application. Ajax redefines the user experience for web applications. Your application can provide a compelling user interface delivered plug-in free using modern web browsers. This book shows you how to make Ajax magic, exploring both the fundamental technologies and the emerging frameworks that make it easy. What You'll Learn Book Details... (click a heading above for more information. JavaScript must be enabled in your browser.) See less

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See this at: atlphp.org| Added on 04/01/06

If you ever want to make a really good impression on a potential client for instance, consider running Apache, MySQL & PHP from your thumbdrive. To this end apachefriends.org has a lite/windows version of "XAMPP" that you can find out more about at... See more

If you ever want to make a really good impression on a potential client for instance, consider running Apache, MySQL & PHP from your thumbdrive. To this end apachefriends.org has a lite/windows version of "XAMPP" that you can find out more about at (the lite version being about halfway down the page): See less

Highlights: Micro Center has a Jumpdrive Secure 512 MB flash drive on sale for $39.99.

See this at: apachefriends.org| Added on 04/01/06

If you enjoy using XAMPP and would like to help in carrying some of the financial burden of the project, we would greatly appreciate your voluntary support payment. Please note that this is not considered a tax-deductible donation.

If you enjoy using XAMPP and would like to help in carrying some of the financial burden of the project, we would greatly appreciate your voluntary support payment. Please note that this is not considered a tax-deductible donation. See less

Highlights: Question 5: How can i switch between PHP5 and PHP4 and back?

See this at: portableapps.com| Added on 04/01/06

Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. See less

See this at: uniformserver.com| Added on 04/01/06

package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server. Developers also use The Uniform Server to test their... See more

package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server. Developers also use The Uniform Server to test their applications made with either See less

See this at: portablewebap.com| Added on 04/01/06

PortableWebAp is a portable platform for web applications. With it you can run php web applications from a CDROM, DVD, USB Drive, from any directory from any hard drive. No installation is necessary.

PortableWebAp is a portable platform for web applications. With it you can run php web applications from a CDROM, DVD, USB Drive, from any directory from any hard drive. No installation is necessary. See less

See this at: portableusbapps.com| Added on 04/01/06

Portable DB is a mobile version of MySQL 5.0. It can run from any directory Windows 98 or higher on any CD, USB drive or hard drive. PortableDb can run side by side with and installed MySQL. To allow this it runs on port 33060, and the process runs... See more

Portable DB is a mobile version of MySQL 5.0. It can run from any directory Windows 98 or higher on any CD, USB drive or hard drive. PortableDb can run side by side with and installed MySQL. To allow this it runs on port 33060, and the process runs as portablemysqld.exe. You can even install it as a service by clicking on installservice.exe in the bin directory. The service installs as portablemysql. You can uninstall the service at any time with removeservice.exe See less

Highlights: Instructions and files necessary to get PortableDB to work with PHP 5.1.

See this at: tamba2.org.uk| Added on 04/01/06

Download a copy of Xampplite. Run and extract the contents to a folder. Copy to your USB stick. (In my case this is Drive E) Open the folder you just copied over. Click xampp-control.exe

Download a copy of Xampplite. Run and extract the contents to a folder. Copy to your USB stick. (In my case this is Drive E) Open the folder you just copied over. Click xampp-control.exe See less

See this at: chsoftware.net| Added on 04/01/06

(Here it really works ;-)Just plug in your USB stick in any Windows ® computer. A complete Apache webserver with PHP and MySQL starts. And you can enjoy the full power of WOS (Webserver on Stick).

(Here it really works ;-)Just plug in your USB stick in any Windows ® computer. A complete Apache webserver with PHP and MySQL starts. And you can enjoy the full power of WOS (Webserver on Stick). See less

Highlights: You can switch between PHP4 and PHP5!

See this at: apachefriends.org| Added on 04/01/06

If you enjoy using XAMPP and would like to help in carrying some of the financial burden of the project, we would greatly appreciate your voluntary support payment. Please note that this is not considered a tax-deductible donation.

If you enjoy using XAMPP and would like to help in carrying some of the financial burden of the project, we would greatly appreciate your voluntary support payment. Please note that this is not considered a tax-deductible donation. See less

Highlights: Question 5: How can i switch between PHP5 and PHP4 and back?

See this at: phdcc.com| Added on 04/01/06

* conference-cd - A tool to put your conference presentations on CD quickly * dynamic-cd - The database/ASP web server on CD and DVD * findinsite-cd - The full text search engine for CDs - renamed from Spy-CD * shellrun - The professional power start... See more

* conference-cd - A tool to put your conference presentations on CD quickly * dynamic-cd - The database/ASP web server on CD and DVD * findinsite-cd - The full text search engine for CDs - renamed from Spy-CD * shellrun - The professional power start for CDs and DVDs See less

See this at: drupal.org| Added on 04/01/06

A beta version of Internet Explorer 7 was just recently released, and with it the ability to autodiscover and read syndicated feeds with just a click of a button (more similar to Apple's Safari than Firefox's Livemarks). Unfortunately, its ability to... See more

A beta version of Internet Explorer 7 was just recently released, and with it the ability to autodiscover and read syndicated feeds with just a click of a button (more similar to Apple's Safari than Firefox's Livemarks). Unfortunately, its ability to do this will fail on any RSS feed produced by Drupal 4.6, due to lack of support for XML entity doctype declarations (which Drupal 4.6 includes in its RSS). There's nothing wrong with IE, and there's nothing wrong with Drupal - we're both doing the Right Thing in regards to standards. The complete technical reasoning for all this is available, and won't be a problem in the forthcoming Drupal 4.7. There is, however, a one-line fix to your Drupal 4.6 web site that will make the two play nice together: In your See less

See this at: digitalraindrop.com| Added on 03/30/06

Since search engine optimization / marketing (referred to as SEO or SEM) is both an interest of mine and a requirement for my sites, it was natural that I looked for strong search engine optimization options built-in when I was looking for a CMS.... See more

Since search engine optimization / marketing (referred to as SEO or SEM) is both an interest of mine and a requirement for my sites, it was natural that I looked for strong search engine optimization options built-in when I was looking for a CMS. Drupal won hands down. For users of the Drupal or CivicSpace content management systems, here are some basic ideas on getting started with search engine optimization. For most users, this should be enough to get your organization's site noticed online, and might even stimulate a steady stream of traffic. Remember that search engine optimization work is slow and gradual if you want real, organic results, and you shouldn't expect results in less than a month or more (possibly up to six months, for a new site). If you're patient, the process pays off with a highly visible, well organized website drawing healthy amounts of traffic from interested users...definitely a goal worth working towards. After all, that's why you have a website in the first... See less

Highlights: Dave's $0.02

See this at: drupal.org| Added on 03/30/06

Hello, I know you guys probably and completly understand this. But would someone mind giving me an actual example of why or when this would be applied? And I'm sorry, but I also need to ask another question (probably silly to some of you), is a... See more

Hello, I know you guys probably and completly understand this. But would someone mind giving me an actual example of why or when this would be applied? And I'm sorry, but I also need to ask another question (probably silly to some of you), is a sub-domain considered a 'multi-site". and if so, would a person be able to use different themes as well while tapping inot the same tables? I'm asking because the current project lays out better as a sub-domain, though I've never done one yet and was trying not to. See less

Highlights: RewriteRule ^second/(.*)$ main/$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^third/(.*)$ main/$1 [L,QSA] </IfModule> Problem is the main site is in www.site.tld/main (instead of www.site.tld).

See this at: drupal.org| Added on 03/30/06

We (leafish) are currently configuring our shiny new dedicated server to host the Drupal sites we produce, and we intend to run all the sites from a single install of Drupal. Everything seems to be working perfectly, but I was wondering if anybody... See more

We (leafish) are currently configuring our shiny new dedicated server to host the Drupal sites we produce, and we intend to run all the sites from a single install of Drupal. Everything seems to be working perfectly, but I was wondering if anybody else has tried this on a large (20+ site) scale and run into any problems. I'd prefer to know about any issues now before we commit to this fully. The server is running CentOS, which is functionally identical to Red Hat Enterprise. We're using Direct Admin to manage our virtual hosting and DNS. I've created two directories for the Drupal code, one for 4.6 and the other is a CVS checkout of the latest head. We're redirecting the customer's public_html directory to one of these two Drupal installations using symbolic links, and creating an entry in the Drupal "sites" directory for each of these to configure database connections and paths. In addition to the custom "modules" and "themes" directories, we're also creating a "files" directory in... See less

Highlights: /bin/sh # The Drupal source directory source=~/common/drupal-production check() { test -e $1 &} check index.html # not part of Drupal, but suspicious check .htaccess check index.php check cron.php check index.php check xmlrpc.php check database check includes check misc check modules check...

See this at: groups.google.com| Added on 03/29/06

http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Laszlo_on_Rails ) I stumble at this point: "3. Set up the database: > rake db_demo_setup ". The returned error is: rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'db_demo_setup' Running on OSX 10.4.4. Would anyone be kind... See more

http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Laszlo_on_Rails ) I stumble at this point: "3. Set up the database: > rake db_demo_setup ". The returned error is: rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'db_demo_setup' Running on OSX 10.4.4. Would anyone be kind enough to clarify what I've done wrong here? Rate this post: See less