Exception handling is a technique that enables you to handle runtime errors. This article discusses exception blocks, best practices and how to handle exceptions efficiently using the ASP.NET Ajax framework. Source:Working with Exceptions using ASP.NET Ajax

This article explores the new Object Orientated Programming that became available in PHP 5. Get some hands-on experience as we create an application demonstrating the concepts. Read more here: Object Orientated Programming- The beginning

All browsers have some kind of caching mechanism in place, but to be honest, they don’t always work. Until HTML 4, the only work around was that the user had to save each page individually. HTML 5, thankfully, provides a smarter solution. View original here: HTML 5: Offline Application Caching

You may have never heard of Orangoo’s GreyBox library, but you’ve almost certainly seen it. The GreyBox library is an extension to the AJS JavaScript Framework that displays websites, images, and other content in an eye-catching popup window. Read on to learn how to use GreyBox within your HTML Applications. Here is the original post: [...]

Just as desktop PCs all but replaced mainframes in the eighties, the web application may be poised to supersede the traditional desktop application. Today, we’ll be looking at a Microsoft contribution called HTML Apps (HTA). To get better acquainted with HTAs, we’ll try our hand at writing a few simple ones. Here is the original: [...]

Picking up where we left off, this article continues to look at the create document script, focusing on the HTML portion of the code followed by a look at the document editor script, which is at the heart of the program. Here is the original post: XML and PHP Simplified – The Createdoc.php Script

In this last article in a three-part series on Aptana Jaxer’s server-side JavaScript Application Framework, we’ll be looking at data persistence in Jaxer as we create a session variable for our blog application and move to storing the posts in a proper database. Go here to see the original: Data Persistence in Jaxer

Optimize your website so that it consumes less bandwidth using the Apache module mod_deflate. This module adds an output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed. A great side effect of the implementation of this module is that it also speeds up your website. Credit:Mod Deflate – Compress Your Web Pages and [...]

With some features already available in browsers, and more to come, Arpan presents an overview of HTML 5′s new features. Credit:HTML 5

Ajax has quickly become a technology of choice for building fast and responsive user interfaces. This article looks at the new features introduced in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 with code examples wherever applicable. The rest is here: New Features in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0

In the “Your First Server-side JavaScript Application” article, we learned how to write server-side javascript for the Jaxer plugin by building a simple file-based blog in Aptana Studio. Today, we’ll extend the project to include the ability to add posts and save them to a file on the server. Read the rest here: Create a [...]

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

Part 4 of this series continues an examination of the XML functions that are offered by PHP5, as well as some of the other DOM functions that deal with the Document Object Model. Read more here: XML and PHP Simplified: The DOM

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 [...]