Grouping information helps users traverse your app in a much faster manner (and thus be more productive which leads them to rave about your mad skills to their friends and refer you more work!). Today I was building a website for a gallery and needed to show the list of artwork entered into the system. [...]
Not sure how I missed it but on the same day Yahoo! launched the Flash Developer Center the also launched a Ruby Developer Center as well!
Yahoo! has a set of tutorials in their Flash Developer Network
The tutorials include
• performing a Yahoo! Search with ActionScript 2 and 3
• embed a Yahoo! Map with ActionScript 2
• create a Yahoo! Music Jukebox plugin
• create a mash up of Flash and upcoming.org
The Yahoo! Maps API is very well documented and they have a ton [...]
Andrew Tice shows off some cool examples of the Bitmap API.
The first set of examples fall into the ‘tricks’ category, but the last one is a very useful technique exporting a screen shot of the flex app’s current state and saving it to the server!
More crazy ActionScript effects from The Flash Blog shows off a [...]
The things that make web development with Ruby on Rails so easy, and dare I say fun, can also sometimes get in the way or cause unexpected problems (not fun). Rails sessions are generated automatically which is cool if you need sessions for say a shopping cart app. However if you don’t need sessions, or [...]
Sometimes you need to display sensitive information in a browser, such as the credit card a customer has on file. Obviously you don’t want to show the entire card number in case the customer leaves there browser open on a public computer, or even worse someone hacks into their account. However, you do need to [...]
Aral Balkan live blogs an Adobe Apollo demonstration
And that’s just one dude…
Danyel Molenaar, a project manager for the Dutch Independent Regulator of Post and Telecommunications, said the man had rented 35 servers for around 14,000 Australian dollars (US$10,493; euro8,256) each per month from a small Internet service provider in the Netherlands to carry out the alleged spam campaign.
So the spammer gets arrested [...]
My web application planning usually includes the outline from the client proposal as a feature list and a series of hand drawn diagrams (with many eraser marks), sometimes the diagrams where converted to adobe illustrator documents if the app was complex enough that the client needed to see the app flow before we begin building. [...]
I’m going to prefix this tutorial by declaring my love for AJAX to preempt a Flash vs Ajax war. I use AJAX daily, it’s a great tool, the sun shines out it’s arse, etc. But sometimes Flash is just the better tool for the job. I’m going off on a tangent here but many problems [...]