Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 17, 2006.
Ajax is a Web programming technique that lets you develop rich, dynamic, interactive interfaces using nothing but JavaScript, HTML and CSS on the desktop. It’s changing the landscape of the Web, and this book will help you gear up to be part of the revolution. Renaissance men David Crane and Eric Pascarello show you how to weave together the many pieces that make up an Ajax application: JavaScript, server-side components, HTML, CSS, and XML. More importantly, they teach you the tools and techniques you’ll need to develop industrial-strength applications using JavaScript, a language that doesn’t always get as much respect as it deserves.
This is really two books in one: first, it’s a look at the Ajax technologies and prescriptions for their effective use. There are detailed discussions of relevant design patterns and of strategies for designing usable and secure applications. There are substantial discussions of a number of Ajax frameworks, libraries, and development tools, as well as developer features of Web browsers that you’ve probably never learned about but can’t live without.
The second half of the book is a cookbook, a compendium of detailed blueprints for concocting your own versions of a trifecta of Ajax showcases: dynamic double combo boxes, typeahead select boxes, and Web portals with selectable, draggable portlets. There are even recipes for assembling standalone Ajax applications that use existing third-party Web services as a back-end. I liked that the cookbook built on the earlier parts of the book by deliberately applying the design patterns and refactoring techniques therein described.
If you’re serious about helping to revolutionize the Web, you need this book.
This is a Printable PDF Complete Book
http://www.manning.com/books/crane
Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 16, 2006.
Audio Streaming Server (Radio) [Windows]
What is a Streaming Audio Server
Its an application that will allow you to “stream” or send a continuous block of data to a client. In a few words, it will allow you to put your own radio station online, where it will be feed by sound files lying around your hardrive, and then clients will connect to the server, and will have the chance to listen whats being playing, just like a plain old school radio station, only that this one is digital, thus allowing better quality, and management is really simple after you follow some simple steps in the initial configuration.
For this tutorial, we’ll use two available solutions, both are very good in the sense they do their job well, so its up to you to decide which one to pick up in the end [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 15, 2006.
Zookoda is an email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your vistors inbox.
Oh…did we mention – it’s all FREE!
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 14, 2006.
WikiHow released a Topic about disabling cd/dvd autorun in windows XP
Windows XP contains a feature which automatically runs the software on a CD or DVD loaded into an optical drive on your computer. This is designed as a convenience, but can have the unintended consequence of loading or executing programs on your PC without your permission. Microsoft developers have created what they call a PowerToy — an unsupported but free piece of software you can install, which allows you to easily disable autorun on your optical drives.
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on March 12, 2006.
What is a Mail Server
You know this. A mail server allows you to receive mails from other mail servers around the internet, provided you create user accounts. It also allows your users to send emails to other mail servers.
For this tutorial, we’ll use a solution that is freeware, and does its job perfect. I’ve been using it for about one year, for my local development in php. [More]
