Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Useful site(point)
Great site full of web development tips and tricks.
http://www.sitepoint.com/
Maia has a number of the books they produce and they’re informative.
Client and server side developers should sign up for the weekly newsletter. This weeks email talked about installing IE8 using Virtual PC and PNG-8 images.
Very useful
No Comments » - Posted in Technology, javascript by craig
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Adobe Photoshop Express finally arrives
After more than a year of anticipation, Adobe Systems will finally roll out Photoshop Express, a Web-based application for editing, organizing, and sharing images. The application, which runs in Flash-enabled browsers, is free and an account includes 2GB of storage.
F R E E !!!
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopexpress/
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by gennadiy
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Where do “Do Not Reply” messages end up?
We’ve all had do-not-reply emails. Guess what people do reply to them. Turns out many companies use the domain donotreply.com in the from field of emails when they don’t want to deal with responses from customers. Bad programmers haven’t grasped that this domain may actually be owned by someone.
John Faliszek owner of donotreply.com receives millions [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by craig
Monday, March 24th, 2008
YSlow for Firebug
Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. The Exceptional Performance team has identified 13 rules for making web pages fast.
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool.
I recommend [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Firefox, Plugins by craig
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Safari in Windows
Real Mac feel for those who feel shortchanged by the Vista experience. Download here.
Apparently it did not get out of the gate without some bad press. Guess there are a few bugs. Can’t imagine having to live with any bugs in my Windows Vista environment.
It feels kinda fun to use. I’ll [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by AJ
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Hey guys,
Some of you may have run into this already, but I thought it worth documenting. I ran into an issue with a simple image loader class I wrote in AS3. The class reads the path of an image to load from a var passed in through the swfObject and attempts to load [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Flash, Technology by admin
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
What chips may come
6 core chips!
What chips may come: Intel lifts curtain on upcoming CPUs
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Ian
Monday, March 10th, 2008
LINQ
LINQ(language integrated query) is a new query language introduced in .Net 3.5 to manipulate/parse/transform data from various different data sources such as XML, SQL, dataset, text file, string, array etc…
I think this is huge since instead of dealing with xpath/xslt, ado.net, SQL, regular expression, and very often low level for loops for data selection, .Net [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Danny
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Section 508 Accessibility
Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C]: http://www.wat-c.org/
Web Accessibility toolbar for IE: http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension (toolbar): http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/
W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Section 508.gov
Take online training courses (free registration req’d.): http://www.section508.gov/
Web standards (16 rules): http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12#Web
Accessibility Forum: http://www.accessibilityforum.org/
And don’t forget:
\\nycmrf0002\tech\Development\Documents\MRM_process_docs\accessibility
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Ian
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
as3 file reference
Werid bug i recently came across
Problem code (note the fileRef is inside the function):
function downloadFile():void {
var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();
fileRef.download(new URLRequest(”myFile.txt”), “myFile.txt”);
}
The following example will work correctly:
var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();
function downloadFile():void {
fileRef.download(new URLRequest(”myFile.txt”), “myFile.txt”);
}
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=3637d5c3&sliceId=1
