This chapter provides you with an overview and introduction to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. The goal of this chapter is to explain why you should build web applications using ASP.NET MVC. Source:Excerpt from ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed

Part 3 of this series covers how to format XML documents in web browsers and how to parse or read them using PHP strings and functions. View post:XML and PHP Simplified – Formatting XML Documents

The JavaScript 2.0 / EMCAScript 4.0 proposal isn’t due to be finalized until the end of the fall of 2009, but it’s already garnering lots of strong reactions – both good and bad. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of the proposed specifications and you can decide for yourself whether they constitute improvements [...]

J. Leidago Noabeb explores the relationship between XML,PHP and MYSQL including a brief look at the Document Object Model. Credit:XML and PHP Simplified – XML,PHP and the Database

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 [...]

Learn how to use the Apache mod_rewrite module to automatically redirect a user to a page designed specifically for their web browser. Mod Rewrite Part 3 – Redirecting Browser Dependent Content with Apache and Mod Rewrite

The last installment of this series discusses the lightest implementation of Lightbox. While it is stripped of all the bells and whistles, you are free to add them if you like. It requires no JavaScript framework, only a few lines of JavaScript to open and close the Lightbox. Read the original here: The Lightest Lightbox

Joydip Kanjilal, MVP examines how you can use the Microsoft Ajax Library to raise and handle events in your applications and provides some best practices when using event handling in Ajax-enabled web applications. Here is the original post: Event Handling using ASP.NET Ajax

Closures are the answer to the problem of how to bind variables to functions that are called at a later time. Today’s article will explain what closures are, outline some common dilemmas, and present ways that closures can be utilized to overcome them. See original here: Understanding JavaScript Closures

This month Ernest Lilley looks back at his adventures in learning to create themes/skins for websites in the hopes of saving others some pain, if not work. See the original post here: Theming Your CMS Without Tearing Your Hair Out

Sukrit Dhandhania discusses how to use .htaccess to make user and search engine friendly URLs for your web applications. View original here: Make Prettier URLs with Apache’s Mod Rewrite

A key ingredient of successful testing is the separation of the component that you are testing from the rest of the process or application. This article explains how to perform your DTD XML schema testing outside of the application that runs it. View post:Testing your DTD XML Schema Validation

A web service is a platform-independent software component that is based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and contains a group of functions that are packaged together for use in a common framework throughout a network. Read on to learn how Web Services can be consumed using ASP.NET Ajax. View original post here: Consuming [...]

Continuing our series on various implementations of Lightbox, this article discusses another library, namely Thickbox, which can be used to display modal dialog boxes. Read the original here: Thickbox 3.1

Today, JavaScript can be written, debugged, and even tested using frameworks’ built-in functionality or by specialized software. In today’s article, we’ll begin examining some of the latest ways of debugging your JavaScript code. Read the original post: Debugging JavaScript: Beyond Alerts