Microsoft has started a beta test of the new Microsoft Sync Framework, technology that, like Google Gears, will let users keeps using web applications when they are offline.
I'm definitely not the first person to do this - but I've been itching to do drop shadows ever since I started playing with ColdFusion 8's new image functionality.
Many of us have seen the (infamous) Ruby on Rails "Blog in 15 minutes" video and probably also Joe Rinehart's "Blog in 9 minutes"
Model-Glue: Unity video. It makes it all look so easy.
The
WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C), in May 0f 1999, issued Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines, which outlined methods of making web content
easily accessible to the visually...
Netvibes released the "Universal Widget API" (UWA) with the claim "Write once, run everywhere" (ouch, I'm reminded of an old unfulfilled Sun/ Java promise!). The idea is that you create gadget code...
In my last post on object factories, I talked about how my attempt to use an object factory for Galleon had led to infinite loop. More than one person told me to switch to ColdSpring and rethink my CFC setup...
Working with resource files (.resx) in Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005 is very easy and straightforward. A .resx file is a fairly simple XML file that can be used for a lot of things. Where I have used it the most is for localization of ASP.NET websites and Windows Forms applications.
ASP.NET ships with a SqlMembershipProvider and a ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that makes user authentication and authorization very easy to implement, but for some reason those are the only membership providers provided natively by ASP.NET 2.0.
Social bookmarking is often thought of as being something used only on blogs. That's probably because you only see them on blogs, when they in fact could be used at most other types of websites as well.
