Archive for December, 2008

12 Internet Predictions for 2009 (funny)

Predictions for 2009, including such gems as, “Facebook and MySpace expand into the antisocial-networking space, launching a new site where you start off as friends with everybody and have to get rid of them.”

Javascript URL handling library – BETA release

This Javascript library facilitates the easy construction and deconstruction of URL strings by breaking the URL into it’s various components. This library is capable or taking a URL as a string or using the current window.location and parsing it into a URL object.

Derby database using hibernate in JavaSE

I found only bits and pieces about how to configure persistence for a standalone application (or a junit test as what I needed) using a simple database (Derby is delivered with JavaSE 6).

JavaScript and jQuery: Web Apps as Highly Interactive as Desktop Apps

Use the advanced CSS features of JavaScript and jQuery to create web applications that behave and look like desktop applications, fueled by drag-and-drop, mouse selection, panning, zooming, and more.

Productivity: It Comes from Software Design Rather than Software Tools

There was a time when big challenges in software development were mostly solvable by tools. It was a simpler time, before every desk and every home had a computer, and before most mid-sized companies were creating their own custom software and before many small companies would even consider building customer software.

50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos

Stop motion animation is one of the hottest areas of film-making today. Stop motion is an animation art through which one can spring life in inanimate things and do the unnatural. It works by shooting a single frame of an object, then moving the object slightly, and then shooting another frame. When [...]

jQuery Alert(), Confirm() and Prompt() Dialogs Replacements

jQuery Alert Dialogs aims to replace the basic functionality provided by the standard JavaScript alert(), confirm(), and prompt() functions. These are completely customizable via CSS (which can make your apps look much more professional). And you can set a custom title for each dialog.
These methods simulate a true modal dialog box. They will automatically [...]

Chris Hartjes’ Blog: Converting Legacy Apps to CakePHP, Part 3

Chris Hartjes continues his series looking at converting over legacy applications into a CakePHP environment with this third part, a focus on what can be one of the hardest parts – separating out business logic and presentation logic.

Anyway, onto other matters. As you saw in parts 1 and 2, a bug part in having a [...]

DevShed: Using Code Igniter to Enable Comments in a Blog Application

DevShed continues their series on using CodeIgniter to make a simple blogging application with this new article. It focuses on the next step in the blog’s evolution – making it able to accept user comments.

A decent blog application, however, must provide users with a mechanism that lets them post their comments easily, and the simplest [...]

Eran Galperin’s Blog: Zend Framework certification

Eran Galperin has taken and passed Zend’s newer certification offering, the Zend Framework Certified Engineer exam. In this new post he talks some about the experience and his impressions of the test itself.

Today I took and passed the Zend Framework certification exam. A possible project involving Zend might be materializing in the near future, and [...]