You’ve been seeing it for a while now with Google’s Reader, Gmail, and most recently, on Facebook. Probably, you, too, would like to write RESTful evented JavaScript applications. Well, fellow developers, meet Sammy.js, a tiny JavaScript framework built on top of jQuery. Sammy utilizes the URL hash (#) to allow you to create single page AJAX applic …
I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve heard this phrase: “don’t worry about scaling your web application, worry about visitor (or customer) acquisition.” My response to this is always that you don’t need to choose one or the other, you can do both! In this post, I’m going to go over some of the strategies I’ve used to architect web appli …
jQuery Mobile is a Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets. It is a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built w …
PHP_CodeBrowser is a tool that creates good looking web pages from your code and annotates them with problems found by checkstyle, pmd and others. We have covered the release of PHP_CodeBroser version 0.1.0-alpha some months ago, see this post. Now, …
No soy muy amigo de Flash, no soy enemigo, pero sinceramente, prefiero hacer las cosas en HTML, CSS y Javascript, tampoco voy a entrar en la polémica HTML vs Flash. Pero sí es cierto, que subir ficheros desde la web puede ser un poco desesperante, sobre todo para aplicaciones web tipo galerías de imágenes en donde se suelen subir varios ficheros simultáneamente.
Subir ficheros mediante Flash nos aporta varias ventajas frente a el HTML normal: puedes poner filtros de archivos, tratar los ficheros previamente, subidas multiples, indicador de progreso, … Y aunque nos pese, el cliente/usuario siempre tiene la razón, y estas comodidades son muy bien valoradas por los usuarios.
El tutorial que os paso explica cómo crear el uploader Flash y como realizar la parte PHP, a mi me va a venir de perlas.
Hace unos días me vi en la necesidad de implementar en una web un proceso que puede tardar uno o dos minutos dependiendo de varios factores. El problema reside en que es un proceso que inicia el usuario y el usuario normalmente es impaciente, por lo …
Animated Table Sort is a plugin that allows you to animatedly sort a table based on a column’s <td>s, or on the content/value of a child/descendant element within those <td>s. The various <td>s fly to their new homes, giving a nice …
Recently we’ve seen a lot of activity in the graph database world. Better understanding the space will help us make smarter decisions, so I’ve decided to reach out to the main players in the market and run a series of interviews about their projects …
Andres Kutt discusses his experience as architect at Skype for five years, sharing some of the lessons learned: rules of thumb do not always apply, functionality is important, use simple solutions, buzzwords are dangerous, the architecture needs to f …
On the TutToaster site today there’s a new tutorial showing you how to create an entire PHP forum completely from scratch using PHP and a MySQL backend. The code I’ll show is exactly the same than the one you can download, except for some comments. I …
