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- Embrace the remote scripting revolution via AJAX
- AJAX centers on eliminating or reducing the number of trips to the server by Web clients by utilizing existing Web standards and the XMLHttpRequest object. Learn more about this Web development trend, as well as Microsoft's work to develop tools that support AJAX. If you've been involved in Web...
- Technical articles 2005-09-13
- Embrace the remote scripting revolution via AJAX
- If you've been involved in Web development for any amount oftime, the latest trend of developing applications with remote scriptingcapabilities via AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) will not be a surprise. After all, it has beenavailable for many years with the drawback being browser inconsistencies.Microsoft always promoted ActiveX as the way...
- Technical articles 2005-09-13
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- Adding Panoramas to Google Maps Using Ajax
- This project is an implementation of an Ajax web application. AJAX is a new technology based on asynchronous communication between a client web browser and a back-end server, allowing web applications to request and receive data without ever reloading the page. A popular application that uses Ajax technology is Google...
- White papers 2005-12-06
- Ajax Development of ATG Applications Using DWR: How to Integrate DWR With ATG's Nucleus IoC Container to Enable Development of Rich User Interfaces for Applications
- Ajax, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a programming technique for building rich user experiences into web applications. It uses a combination of technologies, such as HTML, DOM, JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest, to create applications that only refresh the portions of an HTML page that need to be updated in response to...
- White papers 2007-03-20
- Be aware of AJAX's drawbacks
- AJAX combines the power of existing Web technologies to build powerful user interfaces that offer benefits often found in desktop applications. Over the past couple of years, Web developers have embraced AJAX in their own development efforts as well as via third-party toolkits. Once you use an...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- SolutionBase: Getting started with ASP.NET AJAX
- Although there are a number of other free AJAX frameworks and toolkits available, Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX differs by its total integration into the ASP.NET environment. Justin James guides you through installation and configuration of ASP.NET AJAX. Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX -- originally codenamed "Atlas" -- is Microsoft's entry into...
- Technical articles 2007-10-16
- Be aware of AJAX's drawbacks
- Great summaryTony -This is a great post, you consolidated probably 99% of my thoughts on the topic in one well written post.Thanks!J.JaRE: Be aware of AJAX's drawbacksStating the obvious... Like all programming tools and techniques its horses for courses, you use them as and when they are appropriate... ...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- The Seven Deadly Sins of AJAX application development
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.The AJAX bandwagon is agood place to be. It takes you to faster, more efficient, more dynamic apps. Butit also has pitfalls all its own. At first blush, those pitfallsmay seem avoidable through sheer common sense, and to a degree, that's true....
- Technical articles 2007-02-27
- Ajax Hacks: Detect Browser Compatibility With the Request Object
- Browser compatibility is an important consideration. One has to make sure the "Engine" behind Ajax's server handshake is properly constructed, but one can never predict which browsers the users will favor. The programming tool that allows Ajax applications to make HTTP requests to a server is an object that you...
- Book chapters 2006-03-01
- Google - the worst search engine.
- Google - the worst search engine.In recent search engine comparison tests, Google consistently puts relevant search results low in page rankings, hiding them on page 3 or 4 of the results, while all the other search engines correctly put those same results on page 1. There are a lot...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-31
- Crawling Ajax-Driven Web 2.0 Applications
- Crawling web applications is one of the key phases of automated web application scanning. The objective of crawling is to collect all possible resources from the server in order to automate vulnerability detection on each of these resources. A resource that is overlooked during this discovery phase can mean a...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Search Engine Optimization and Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 is a fairly recent phenomenon whose predominate features are composed of a high level of user or community participation as well as leading-edge technical features such as AJAX. Because of these elements, many sites aren't optimized well for search engines and thus are missing out on a large...
- White papers 2006-12-03
- Programming news: Windows Marketplace for Mobile opens, Google moves to index AJAX
- Read about Microsoft research on test-driven development, Palm opening up its developer program, Engine Yard's additional VC funding, and more. by Justin James
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- MODx shines as an open source CMS for content-based Web sites
- MODx is an open sourcecontent management system CMS written in PHP, ready for use on any platformthat supports PHP. Although the project describes itself as a "ContentManagement Framework," MODx functions superbly out of the box as a CMS as well.The project is current at version 0.9.2, but don't let that...
- Technical articles 2006-10-12
- How Web Developers Can Hurt Web Marketing Efforts
- This is the second in a two part series.In my previous blog (Web Development vs. Web Marketing), I discussed some of the ways project specifications can interfere with the business reasons for the project. Today, I will take a look at just how technical implementations, while being technical correct or...
- Blog posts 2006-05-30
- Create a complex type using XML schema inheritance
- Ugly!Ed -Good piece! This kind of stuff highlights why most developers are mostly using XML for a verbose replacement for CSV with rectangular data sets, or a replacement for INI/conf files, not for the stuff that the other 99.99% of the XML spec allows. :)J.JaRE: Create a complex type using...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- A few quick Java questions
- A few quick Java questionsI'm debating if I should learn Java, since a I find the syntax a lot easier to understand than C++ (no pointers or -> or :: and such; I somewhat understand those but C++ still reads very cryptic to me), b I know C# already...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
- Enhance Web application design with Dojo
- There is only so much time in the day, so anything that helps build useful Web applications is a welcome additional to any developer's toolbox. Some of the more popular free online toolkits I've covered previously are: jQuery, scriptaculous, and the Yahoo! User Interface YUI Library. This week's focus is...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
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- blog rootMirroring my blog here is an interesting ideaI am interested in seeing how well this integrates the feed from my regular blog. Mirroring an existing blog ia na excellent idea.MSFT Desktop Search Out of BetaBetaNews | MSN Desktop Search Moves Out of Beta"Microsoft's MSN division on Monday launched...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-19
- Build Web applications with Aptana Studio
- A Web developer's choice of tools is often driven by the needs of the client and the project, but a developer's IDE is often a personal matter; after all, they spend the bulk of their time using this tool to build their applications. While .NET developers have limited choices, Web...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
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