There are a number of ways to handle a maintenance downtime. You can either handle it inside of your web application or you can have Apache automatically direct all traffic to a specified page. This article explains how to have Apache redirect visitors to a maintenance page while still allowing you to view updates/changes. More: [...]

Ernest Lilley shares some news and tid-bits centered around Drupal, including upcoming conferences, tools and books he uses and the community sites he frequents. Read the rest here: Social Networking with Drupal

There are a number of ways to handle a maintenance downtime. You can either handle it inside of your web application or you can have Apache automatically direct all traffic to a specified page. This article explains how to have Apache redirect visitors to a maintenance page while still allowing you to view updates/changes. Credit:How [...]

Partial-page rendering can be used to refresh only a portion of your web page rather than the entire page. This article discusses how you can implement partial page updates using the Update Panel control and how you can use the Update Progress control in conjunction with the Update Panel control to enhance the user experience. [...]

Web design has come a long way from just creating HTML documents. It is essentially the art of presenting information in a readable, useable and functional manner. Numerous interface elements can be used to achieve the goal, including tabbed layouts, paginated view and modal windows. This article examines the different uses of modal windows. See [...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Apache web server has a number of very useful and powerful features, one of which is the ability to rewrite URLs. Using the mod_rewrite module, Apache allows you to create short or fancy looking URLs transparently. This article discusses how to enable, configure, and tweak mod_rewrite in your Apache installation. Excerpt from:Getting Started with [...]

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