This article describes some techniques to assist you in the debugging process when you are using jQuery in client-side Web development.

In the second of two navigation videos we filmed for Silverlight TV, Karl Shifflett joins John Papa to demonstrate how he made some simple extensions to the navigation API in Silverlight in order to solve very common business problems. Karl demonstrates...(read more)

In this article, you’ll see one way to organize the data in PHP and send it to the Flex client in a way that makes it simple to plot on a chart.

In Flash Builder 4 there are many new features that make it much easier to build Flex applications that work with data from a PHP back-end via a standard create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) setup. Sometimes, however it's helpful to start with the ...

I had a quick play with with the (relatively) new Zoom.It site from LiveLabs ( click the image ); If you visit the site, you can point it at any image on the web or any website and create a DeepZoom from it. I visited, entered my URL and it created me...(read more)

I've previously blogged about how to get the Data Visualization assembly from the Silverlight Toolkit / WPF Toolkit working on Windows Phone. It's quite simple with my Data Visualization Development Release 4 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta...(read more)

In the past I’ve made some screencast videos around PRISM or “Composite Application Guidance” for Silverlight. I’ve also made some screencast videos around the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight . Not so long ago, the PRISM folks announced...(read more)

Flower Mound, TX – August 2, 2010: Genuitec, LLC, a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, and Skyway Software, an expert Spring development solutions company and SpringSource Certified Solution Partner, today announced the pr ...

OSCON, PORTLAND JULY 19, 2010: Symbian Foundation, the non-profit organization responsible for the worlds leading open source smartphone platform and Nitobi, creators of the ground-breaking PhoneGap mobile application development framework, today ann ...

Developing enterprise applications today using JavaFX is a challenge. The industry has not matured enough to identify patterns and practices. Consequently practioners (architects and developers alike) commit the same mistakes again and again. There i ...

Learn how to easily navigate between pages in a Windows Phone application....( read more )...(read more)

A new version of Visual Studio called “LightSwitch” was announced at the VS Live conference today by Jason Zander. At the moment, I don’t have any deep details to write about here but the essence is around a productive tool for building business applications...(read more)

I occasionally get invited to do JavaScript/AJAX Performance Workshops. Last week I spent two days with a group of dynaTrace AJAX Users that work in a performance task force group within their R&D Organization. I asked them about the reasons for this Client-Side Performance Initiative. They told me the following story: One of our sales managers started to complain about several pages of the product we sell being too slow to demo therefore impacting his ability to pitch and sell the product. We analyzed the page in-house but couldn’t reproduce the same exact behavior. After some back and forth we identified that it was the Skype Add-On for Internet Explorer caused the performance hit on those pages that had a very large DOM with many table rows and many nested divs. This raised the awareness of client side performance and that there is much to learn about how browser work and how the generated HTML impacts JavaScript, Rendering and IE Add-Ons.

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OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is now available for download at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is an incremental release of OpenLaszlo 4, and contains almost 20 bug fixes (see the JIRA report 4.8 Release Notes for details). In addition to the bug fixes, two new features have been added: support for incremental compilation for SWF10 applications; and a compiler option that lets you store pre-compiled platform-specific object code for both the DHTML and SWF10 runtime in a binary library format.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Ono Keiji, Jaco Botha, Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

The ProgressBar template for Windows Phone can be improved upon for better performance in indeterminate mode....( read more )...(read more)

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #35. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...(read more)

Adobe now has a Creative and Interactive Solutions business unit headed by David Wadhwani, who ran its Platform business so the company can take a more integrated approach, and “deliver faster on our vision of multi-screen publishing and drive innovation and support for both Flash and HTML 5 authoring.” John Loiacono who ran Creative Solutions is now heading up a new Digital Media Solutions unit focused on the company’s core digital imaging franchise. Former Omniture CEO Josh James is leaving the company at the end of July and will be replaced by former Omniture biz dev VP Brad Rencher. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Omniture now represents about 10% of Adobe’s revenue. Adobe bought Omniture 11 months ago for $1.8 billion.

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Last week I was thinking about design of the main view of a new project for a new client of ours. This application is interesting in that it can deployed as an enterprise RIA as well as a tool to be used by any consumer connected to the Internet. The mockup of the main view looks clearly like a Web portal with a number of portlets, which can be maximized, moved around, and independently communicate with the server(s). But… This Web site has to be discoverable to bring more and more new customers. Here comes the quiz. Can you see why the previous two paragraphs have an important logical issue, which represents a misconception sitting in minds of many creators of Web content?

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Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria. I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be coming back to the United States nor will she allow Sofia to return home. Sofia has been diagnosed with a severe medical condition that requires immediate treatment in the United States. It was scheduled to start on July 27, 2010, in New Jersey, the day after her abduction and was supposed to last until she reaches the age of 3. Any delay in the urgently needed treatment will result in a life-long disability for Sofia and make her dependent for the whole of her adult life. The treatment is not available in Syria. Mr. President, I grew up in Turkey listening to the evening news during our family dinners where I used to hear your father Hafez al-Assad's name more often than the names of my own family together with Menachem Begin, Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, and Yasser Arafat. I plead with you on behalf of my daughter Sofia to learn of her whereabouts and see her safely and speedily returned home. I also respectfully request a visa to Syria to meet her at the United States Embassy in Damascus to bring her home. Mrs. President, parents around the world have only the Hague Convention to rely on in international child abduction cases. I urge your humanitarian consideration, as the mother of a precious child, to fight for Syria to be a part of the Hague Convention. Thank you in advance.

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Swiss-based web content management (WCM) house Day Software Holding AG got bought Wednesday by Adobe for roughly $240 million (255 million Swiss francs). Adobe is now going to tender for its outstanding stock offering $131.53 a share cash (139 Swiss francs), a 59% premium compared to its performance the last 60 days. Observers believe Day’s been positioning itself so Adobe would buy it. Adobe currently embeds Alfresco’s open source enterprise content management repository in its LiveCycle product and in its Acrobat.com service under an OEM arrangement but Day and Alfresco don’t seem to tangle in the marketplace.

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