In the October issue of this journal, we had a small error; John Bland's fine article entitled 'A Little OOP, CF Style' ended up with the classification of Flash ActionScript. Unfortunately it was not caught until the edition was in print. However, when I reviewed the article, I was st... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 17,314 Replies: 5 |
There are dozens and dozens of time - saving things you can do in freehand. Following is just a brief selection. Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 21,971 |
A lot of tasks required to develop a Web site are repetitious and tedious. Have you ever had a folder full of images that you needed to add a border to? Or perhaps you want to reduce the size of every image. You'll probably even need to optimize each image as well. Well you can do all ... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 16,253 |
What does data look like? To a stockbroker, data might appear as a stream of company names and stock values. A database administrator probably sees data as a series of tables. A developer working in XML might see data as a tree like structure. This article is all about data. We will lo... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 19,109 Replies: 3 |
The challenge of enterprise-level collaboration is to make data sharing effective and keep costs down. Applications built with C++ or Java must be delivered to the end-users' desktops along with some piece of the collaboration software. That can be a headache for IT departments because... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 21,460 |
It wasn't so long ago that video and the Web were at odds. Video was becoming more beautiful and entertaining through new post-production techniques. And with the proliferation of video editing software and high-speed buses like FireWire, creative videos started coming from all types o... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 11,414 |
Massaging user input is one of those tedious jobs most Web developers would rather do without. But if someone leaves out important data while filling out a Web form, your Web application might not work - after all, how can you e-mail a user his weekly newsletter if he forgot to enter h... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 14,892 |
Recently, while doing some consulting, I observed a programmer hand-coding a query and database fields onto a Web page. Here is the scary part: they were using Dreamweaver MX 2004. The following week I delivered a seminar and spoke about dynamic technology. I was amazed how many did no... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 23,531 Replies: 3 |
As an educator with a post-secondary institution I have had something of a ringside seat watching the evolution of e-Learning. My biggest complaint was that, in general, most institutions getting into the game just 'didn't get it.' Their approach to the process was to create what I ca... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 16,986 |
Charles Brown's editorial last month brought praise and discussion. These are just a few of the comments we received -- and some of his answers. Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 9,980 |
'Hi, my name is Kerry, and I'm a programmer.' I looked around the room as people murmured 'Hello Kerry.' Most of them were what you would expect - some shaggy long hairs, a couple of women with buzz cuts, a pony tail here and there, some middle-aged guys with even less hair than I have... Nov. 18, 2004 Reads: 15,130 |