Topic archive for
March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Today, let’s get Railo running on Tomcat! Why Tomcat? It’s a robust, high-performance Java-based web server and Servlet engine and it’s also very light and lean. Tomcat is also the basis of the JBoss Web Server (I’ll probably cover JBoss later in this series) so all that you learn about getting things up and running [...]
By: Sean Corfield in Java, Web Development
Monday, March 30th, 2009
I’ve been tweaking the performance of BlogEngine.NEXT today using my favorite tool: YSlow for FireBug. One of the things YSlow checks for is the expires HTTP header for static content such as images, script files and style sheets. Since BlogEngine.NET has always used custom HTTP handlers for serving scripts and stylesheets, only the static images [...]
By: Mads Kristensen in CSS, Design
Friday, March 27th, 2009
You’ve probably seen Kirin Knapp around FlashNewz if you have been reading us over the past recent months. She’s provided us with a few animation tutorials and now a rockin’ new website! Since her desk is a mere 10 feet away from mine we’ve been collaborating on what is now the 4.0 version of the [...]
By: Mark Rivera in Flash
Friday, March 27th, 2009
There is a good article worth reading at Win Writers about Flash being widely used and accepted as a Tool for Web Application Development.
“Despite the slowed economy and IT cutbacks, the drive toward web-based applications continues to have enormous momentum. The software industry, in general, is lured by the Web’s ubiquitous connectivity. IT departments are [...]
By: Brajeshwar Oinam in Application Development, Flash, Flash development, W3C
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Microsoft Word is ubiquitous. Pretty much every computer – even when you take Macs into consideration – has the program onboard. So XML professionals – along with people who aren’t quite experts – may be happy to know that Quark XML Author 3.0 for Microsoft Word will soon be released.
Ayca Yuksel, a senior product manager [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Microsoft Office, Programming, Web Development, XML
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
I never understood the reasoning behind people that bought iPod Shuffles. Yes, they’re cheap but for just spending a bit more you get so much more with the standard iPod. Plus, 1GB is a ‘decent’ amount of songs but if you’re downloading good quality then that space can run up quick.
With the new iPod Shuffle, [...]
in Apple, Mac, Software
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Apple’s efforts to bring the iPhone to China have met a few road blocks the past year. They’ve been talking with China Mobile, but haven’t been able to work out a deal.
Things might be looking up though, as China Unicom has posted information relating to the iPhone. This is the closest thing to a confirmation [...]
By: John Vinson in Apple, Mac, Software
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
I have written about QuickBase’s moves in the enterprise 2.0 space on this blog before (see – Changing Organization Behavior at XM Radio through Enterprise 2.0). QuickBase is an Enterprise 2.0 shareable database that lets you select ready-made online workgroup applications or templates designed to solve common business problems, customize them to suit individual processes, [...]
By: Bill Ives in Database, Programming
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Internet Explorer 8 was released as a beta around February of 2008. About the time of the beta release Microsoft announced that the IE 8 had passed the Acid2 test. Everyone was shocked that Microsoft actually was able to get a version of IE to even past the test, since everyone’s view is [...]
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Firefox, Internet Explorer, W3C
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
One of the hard things to do in web development is create useful features - and if you come up with a useful feature, securing the code for that feature. Luckily, Google Code provides a lot of APIs that you can use to increase the features on your site.
in API, Google, Web Development