The Ajax Control Toolkit is a community project from Microsoft that contains a number of controls to design and implement Ajax-enabled controls seamlessly. In this article, Joydip Kanjilal shows you how to start working with the Ajax Control Toolkit and explores two sample extender controls. Here is the original post: Working with the Ajax Control [...]

Learn how to work with the ASP.NET Ajax Server Extensions Framework, a collection of server controls and services that extend the functionality of the ASP.NET core. See more here: Working with Ajax Server Extensions

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

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

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 tutorial explains how to use advanced methods for creating ‘Windows’ in the Adobe AIR platform. Read the original: Adobe AIR Programming: Working with Windows – Advanced

Relying on the browser’s cache to store Ajax data has distinct limitations. A better solution may be to create your own cache management class. In this installment we’ll be covering some caching mechanisms, as we build upon our cache management class. Continued here: Building a Client-Side Ajax Cache: Caching Algorithms

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

In this tutorial we will build an online bookmark system. This will be used to create a database for storing all our URL’s and their descriptions. By creating our own, we have full control over our application, allowing us to tweak it to suit our needs. Originally posted here: User Personalization with PHP: Beginning the [...]

This is the second part of a two-part series. The previous installment covered the basics of building the blog using Django. In this installment, we’ll put the finishing touches on it. Excerpted from:Django for the Impatient: The Finishing Touches

This week you’ll find out how to access the Book-O-Rama database from the Web using PHP. A sampling of key topics covered include: how Web database architectures work, choosing a database to use, querying the database, using other PHP-database interfaces and more. By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson. 1124 Read the rest here: Accessing Your MySQL [...]