Tuesday September 9, 2008

Today's News

• Creating a Modular JavaScript Toolbox
  Creating and maintaining an effective toolbox is one of the most time saving techniques in programming and can reduce development time greatly. This article shows you how to create and maintain your own such toolbox!

• Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness
  The first step in moving markup into modern form is to make it well-formed. Well-formedness guarantees a single unique tree structure for the document that can be operated on by the DOM, thus making it the basis of reliable, cross-browser JavaScript.

Featured Goodies

• How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax: Part 1
  In the past, Web applications were limited because a Web page had to be reloaded (or another page loaded in its place) in order for new data to be obtained. Recently, a new method, known as "Ajax" (Asynchronous Javascript and XML applications) asynchronously retrieves XML data via JavaScript. Ajax will allow you to take your Web applications to the next level.

• Getting Started with Silverlight
  Despite the options available with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, accommodating their differences can be maddening. Enter Silverlight, a plug-in for multiple Web browsers on multiple platforms that makes it easier to create rich content.

Beyond HTML

• CSS Tutorial For Newbies and Everybody Else
  If you're familiar with HTML, know how to use a text editor and want to add some style to your pages, this tutorial will get you up to speed with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in no time!

• Style Sheets 'Made' Easy
  One of the biggest problems many people have with setting up a Web site is creating the cascading style sheets (CSS). If you don't know how to create a style sheet, or don't do it that often, here's an alternative.

• Tutorial: Installing Apache and PHP Under Win32
  Nothing can stop you now! Read this tutorial for the inside scoop on setting up Apache and PHP on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows!

• PHP Tutorial: Introduction
  This PHP Tutorial Series starts with an introduction to PHP.

Primers

• .NET: The Web's New DNA
  Dot Net Architecture -- an Introduction.

• .NET: The Web's New DNA, Part Two
  The .Net Framework Common Language Runtime