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.NET Thinking Concurrently

In recent posts, you've found that I've been harping on immutability and side effect free functions. There is a general theme emerging from this and some real...

0 replies - 963 views - 05/30/08 by podwysocki in News

JavaScript Chaining Your Methods

In a previous post on JavaScript Ant I reviewed some techniques from JavaScript libraries that could prove to be useful in your own scripts. A final technique...

0 replies - 1768 views - 05/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a...

3 replies - 45659 views - 05/26/08 by dzovan in News

HTML 5 Reverse Ordered Lists

One of the newly introduced features in HTML 5 is the ability to mark up reverse ordered lists. These are the same as ordered lists, but instead of counting up...

0 replies - 2336 views - 05/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

How To - jMaki Events

The January 27, 2007 Tech Tip Introduction to jMaki introduced jMaki, a lightweight framework for creating Web 2.0 applications using standards-based...

0 replies - 2637 views - 05/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

ColdFusion 8 Native Ajax or jQuery

A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to...

0 replies - 1266 views - 05/15/08 by Raymond Camden in News

Quick and Easy AIR Apps with Dreamweaver CS3

The Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3 makes it easy to build, package, and preview Adobe AIR applications with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. You can...

0 replies - 2338 views - 05/14/08 by jonathansnook in News

Making Element Selection and AJAX simple with DOMAssistant

With this article, my goal is to show you how easy it is to implement basic element selection and then add some nice dynamic retrieval of content through AJAX...

0 replies - 5438 views - 05/13/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

CSS Generated Content Part 1

One of the things that had me bothered for a while were visual separators. Whenever I got a design, there were always some silly pipes or > signs that were...

0 replies - 1356 views - 05/07/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

Simplifying and Demystifying CSS Backgrounds

If you've been designing websites for awhile then you probably remember this: <body background="bg.jpg">. I wrote a lot of websites like that...

0 replies - 979 views - 05/06/08 by ldminteractive in News

Using Django with Appengine

About Welcome to Django tutorial for integrating with Appengine. This is a port of the Django tutorial to use appengine instead of Pure Django. Like in the...

0 replies - 2500 views - 04/21/08 by shabda raaj in News

How and when to use links in HTML pages - Part 2

Now that we can access all pages within our website from our home page, if you missed part 1 you can read it here, things are looking good but, our site is not...

0 replies - 1273 views - 04/13/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

reForm: CSS Form Design Template for Any Layout (Part 2)

 A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article about the formReForm Project. formReForm is a methodology to style HTML forms without a huge amount of markup...

4 replies - 8322 views - 03/18/08 by Joe Lippeatt in News

reForm: CSS Form Design Template for Any Layout

The ProblemGood form UI is a real challenge for designers. Form elements need to be large enough that users can view and edit data, but fit within an...

0 replies - 30938 views - 02/29/08 by Joe Lippeatt in News