Bill Gates is the world’s richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you do not want him to attend? Can he deny you the right to braid hair in your home for a living? It turns out that a local politician, who might deny us the right to earn a living and dictates which school our kid attends, has far greater power over our lives than any rich person. Continue reading
Evan Trimboli of the Ext-JS team just published an article describing Ext.Direct, a remoting API that is part of Ext 3.0. Continue reading
Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps. Continue reading
This article, part 5 of a series on image optimization, talks about the use of transparent PNGs with IE6 and why the AlphaImageLoader hack is bad and a very interesting solution This installment of the image optimization series is about … Continue reading
Arstechnica has a great explanation of the issue. Academic researchers have found an exploitable hole in a popular form of wireless networking encryption. The hole is in a part of 802.11i that forms the basis of WiFi Protected Access (WPA), … Continue reading
Jack Slocum has posted a screencast of the visual designer tool that will be part of upcoming release of Ext. The roadmap for version 3, due out in the first quarter of 2009, has also been updated. Here is what … Continue reading
Chris Boersma posted this example of using TaskRunner and TaskManager to keep a user informed while a task is handled server-side.
Adobe ColdFusion has a long history. Originally introduced by Allaire, it was acquired by Macromedia, then became part of Adobe in yet another acquisition. ColdFusion version 8.0 was released in July 2007, featuring Microsoft .NET integration, integration with Adobe Acrobat forms, and enhanced performance. ColdFusion scored best with developers for its scalability, support and security. Continue reading
In this insightful post, Brian Reindel discusses the different disciplines typically associated with “web development.” Continue reading
Shea Frederick has created a user-defined extension to integrate Google Maps with ExtJS. Continue reading
