Although rich web sites and applications have become the norm in recent years, they can still be difficult to develop, maintain, and expand. Many of the challenges stem from the schism between client and server components. The Jaxer server, developed by Aptana, is an open source Ajax web server for building rich web pages and [...]

This article explores some of the new data filtering functions that became available in PHP 5. More here: Data Filtering with PHP

Today we’ll be discussing the use of Ajax in client-side caching. It’s really a two pronged topic: first, it is beneficial for performance to cache the data once it’s been downloaded because it minimizes server calls; second, you have to be able to force the browser to refresh some content when a server call is [...]

The Error object provides a number of properties to help you display more meaningful error messages to the client and more useful debugging information to you, the developer. In this article, we’ll go over how to use the Error object to handle runtime exceptions. See the original post: Debugging JavaScript: Handling Runtime Exceptions

One of the most pervasive criticisms about JavaScript is that it’s painfully difficult to debug. The good news is that you don’t have to be intimidated or turned off by JavaScript. In this article, we will be taking a look at the types of errors that you are likely to encounter in JavaScript development and [...]

Comet is a Web application model that enables Web servers to send data to the client without having to explicitly request it. This article will examine one method of implementing Comet called Ajax Long Polling and demonstrate how it can be used to create event-driven Web apps. More: Comet Programming: Using Ajax to Simulate Server [...]

The Adobe AIR platform supports applications developed with HTML, Ajax, Flash, PDF, or virtually any combination thereof. This tutorial show you how to create ‘Windows’ in Adobe AIR. The rest is here: Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed: Working with Windows

It’s almost inevitable that on any given Web site someone, at some time, is going to be directed to a nonexistent URL. This tutorial will show you how to use a simple script to make the situation a bit easier on your visitors. View original post here: Creating Custom Error Pages on Apache Servers

If you’re not familiar with the technology or are new to AJAX, it’s important to take some time and understand where AJAX fits into the big picture of Web development. This article helps bring you up to speed with AJAX’s place in your Web development toolbox. By Robert Foster. 0126 Read the rest here: Introduction [...]

The DOM exposes the style sheets as a property of the document object. Using the document.styleSheets property, you can create, delete and modify existing rules within any style sheet in the page. By Rob Gravelle. 1121 Go here to read the rest: Working with the DOM Stylesheets Collection

This week you’ll learn about the individual building blocks of Ajax and how they fit together to form the architecture of an Ajax application. Later on, you’ll examine these components in more detail, finally assembling them into a working Ajax application. By Phil Ballard and Michael Moncur. 1013 Continued here: Anatomy of an Ajax Application

In CakePHP, controllers are the classes that handle browser requests and facilitate communication between models and views. This week we will learn the nuts and bolts of the CakePHP controller. By Ahsanul Bari, Anupom Syam. 1006 Here is the original post: Controllers: Programming Application Logic – Part 2

In CakePHP, controllers are the classes that handle browser requests and facilitate communication between models and views. This week you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of CakePHP controller. By Ahsanul Bari, Anupom Syam. 0929 Continued here: Controllers: Programming Application Logic

This week you’ll learn how to have the connection between the browser and the Web server encrypted. This guide is designed for use with the typical Apache on Linux configuration. By Stephen Philbin. 0919 Excerpt from:Do It Yourself SSL Guide

In this article, we look at how important JavaScript optimizations are analyzed. These general purpose techniques are designed for JavaScript on all browsers. Detailed graphs of all the performance results are given after each optimization. You will be amazed at the incredible speed improvements! By Joseph Myers Originally posted here: Performance Optimizations for High Speed [...]