Posts Tagged ‘web development’
Serving JavaScript Fast
May 23rd, 2006
Vitamin has a post by Cal Henderson for those creating next generation web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. The main issue is the optimization of the content in order to give users the best possible experience when visiting the website.
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MySQL Cheat Sheet
May 18th, 2006
For those of you using MySQL databases, Neal Parikh has a page on his site with common MySQL database commands. Although its isn’t as comprehensive as lets say the MySQL manual, it does give quite a bit of information that I would need on an everyday basis. The list covers most of the commands I think developers would need to incorporate into a website so give it a look.
Web Standards. Should My Business Website Be Compliant?
May 17th, 2006
Tom Ashworth has written a great article about web standards on HostReview. The question asked is what are web standards and should a business be compliant? Ashworth goes on to say that web standards are those specified by W3C and specifically the use of tableless layouts via XHTML and CSS.
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Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX Apps in the Java Language
May 17th, 2006
Google has released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) written in Java to allow easy implementation of AJAX applications for web developers. What the Google Web Toolkit does is takes the developers Java code and converts it to HTML and JavaScript for use in an AJAX application.
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Yahoo! User Interface Library
May 14th, 2006
For those of you that don’t know, Yahoo has a set of open source utilities written in JavaScript. It includes some helpful tools for DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. Many of these tools are used in their applications and are available through their developer network.
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JavaScript Motion Tween
May 14th, 2006
Philippe Maegerman a developer from Brussels, Belguim has posted a JavaScript Motion Tween on his blog. The class is very well thought out as well as documented if you are interested in implementing a Motion Tween affect on your own site. What I though was pretty cool is he has a certified Flash developer icon on his blog, but the tutorial is JavaScript. Most Flash developers I know tend to just lean toward Flash. I guess it’s just a natural tendency to move toward what you are comfortable with. It’s good to see that people are looking at multiple solutions to any given problem.
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Dynamic Drive CSS Library
May 10th, 2006
Dynamic Drive has launched a section of their website dedicated to practical CSS codes and examples. The examples shown are similar to the CSS Navigation examples that I had blogged about a couple of weeks ago. It looks like they have a few tutorials but have a long way to go to call it a library, but since the site just launched it is a good starting point for people looking for some CSS tricks.
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Firefox Extensions for Web Development
May 9th, 2006
The Moleskin has a good entry about Firefox extensions for web development. Two extensions that I use quite often are the Firefox web developer extension and Firebug. They are two really useful extensions for me and they allow me to develop sites more efficiently. Looking over the other extensions they seem to offer web developers some handy tools.
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From XHTML/CSS to WordPress
May 5th, 2006
I’ve been hired quite a few times to skin different types of blogs software such as WordPress. It’s actually pretty easy to do, but does take a little bit of time just because of the number of files that need to be edited to create a template. I recently came across a tutorial on The Undersigned with a pretty good explanation on how to go about creating a template for WordPress.
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CSS Play – A CSS Font
May 5th, 2006
CSS Play has created a font using pixels in CSS. While I wouldn’t use it for the text on the page it’s quite useful for verification purposes. Since a computer couldn’t render it as text the user could. For things like sign up forms this is very useful to prevent any form of spam from hitting your site.
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About Me
Brandon Quintana has been actively involved in web development for the past 12 years. Proficient web programming languages include XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
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