Ben Nadel of Kinky Solutions has posted his latest work. He has wrapped the Apache POI API in a ColdFusion tag to help us create “authentic” Microsoft Office file formats. Now, the project contains more than just the POIUtility.cfc; it … Continue reading
In this 18 minute video J.J. Abrams, the producer of TV shows Alias and Lost and the upcoming film Cloverfield, speaks to a TED audience.
So far the standard way of making data connections in Ajax applications has been over XmlHttpRequest, which requires clients to constantly poll backend servers. Adobe is taking advantage of the opportunity to open up a solid platform capable of providing … Continue reading
According to Michael Carter, of Comet Daily, evidence of a surefire way to use Comet with IE is purely anecdotal. He describes the steps he followed to uncover the cause of dropped connections in his ActiveX htmlfile hack and how … Continue reading
Watch this video of Douglas Crockford’s “The State of Ajax” talk on Yahoo Developer Network theater.
It always seems like the most recent generation of workers is always perceived as the “slacker” generation. In this post, Ryan Healy tells us what he thinks his generation is looking for in a working environment. According to Ryan, 8 … Continue reading
David Pogue from the NY Times wrote this article describing GrandCentral. Continue reading
Here is an interesting tutorial about Flex and Ajax integration. April 6th, 2009 UPDATE – The original article appears to have been lost when webmonkey.com was redesigned. This other article of theirs references the same broken link. Sorry.
Here is a good article by Chris Heilmann for those of you making a move to new JavaScript coding styles and frameworks.
$E() is for those of us who use the prototype framework, and have written additional functions to manage new elements and their contents.
