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The enhanced security on Windows Vista is good, but sometimes even the simplest of tasks become a pain. For eg: I run xampp on my box and have require various virtual hosts - I also setup numerous domains and make an entry for them in my HOSTS file.I switched to Vista very recently (I bought a new laptop :) and I simply couldn't modify the hosts file. After looking around and figuring how things

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This one is pretty cool guys.Nico created a custom google analytics api and used it to build a desktop version of google analytics using AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).I just tried it and although it is beta, the experience is amazing - I found it to be much smoother than the online version.Installation didn't take more than 5 minutes.It required me to download the AIR first from here:Then

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I have been a prototype.js user for almost 1 1/2 years now but for a new project, I was forced to use jquery (www.jquery.com). In the beginning, I was too reluctant to give it a shot because of the learning curve and laziness on my part, but I must say once I dived in, I was very impressed with the library, it's documentation, the community, the number of plugins and how easy it was to find all

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cakePHP has view caching built in which when used cleverly will really speed up your applications.However, this doesn't work with requestAction.Let's consider this example:1. You store all your categories in a database.2. While displaying your views, you want to pull these categories from the DB.3. You don't want that every time you display a page, you should pull the categories from DB. Since

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So, the guys at Intype have come out with their next major release - 0.2.1.This release is pretty cool and has lots of exciting features the 2 most important ones being drag and drop support and the ability to do Undo/Redo.Here is the feature set for this release -Undo/RedoReload Bundles — A huge help for bundle creators. Bundles can now be reloaded directly from the Intype UI, there’s no need to

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I am sure, like me most people who develop on windows, envy the mac users (among other things :) for the editor they use - TextMate.Well, Well - it seems like there is a very promising new kid on the block - InType.Checked it out today and I must say I am very impressed with it.Although, it's still in it's Alpha (and probably too early to comment on) and lacks some obvious features like undo /

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In California this week...

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SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents*, and is forward compatible, so it should work for years

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Nisan Gabbay's Startup Review blog - interesting read!

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beppu has written about the Decorator Pattern for Javascript.He has provided a very very useful piece of code using which every object can now have a before() and after() method that would work like this -before(‘method’, function() { }); after(‘method’, function() { }); This will provide us more flexibility in playing with objects and definitely reduce the code a little :)Read more here.

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Pre-ajax days javascript was used mostly for form validations, image swaps or little dom manipulations here and there. Back then optimizing the code was of least importance because it never used to do anything significant (if I may put it that way).Well, now things are very different. With ajax, we have javascript with a complete new look and lots & lots of code written in it. Anyone who has

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CakePHP

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A technical evangelist is a person who promotes the use of a particular product or technology through talks, articles, blogging, user demonstrations, recorded demonstrations, or the creation of sample projects. The word evangelism is taken from the context of religious evangelism because of the similar recruitment of converts and the spreading of the product information through the ideological or

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You love prototype.js, and you use Form.Element.getValue() all the time. Here is the Form.Element.setValue() counterpart. The setValue() function can be found in prototypeUtils.js

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DOMInclude is a library that allows you to add inline dynamic includes of content rather than using window popups.

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More...

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It's almost been 2 days since the hyderabad barcamp ended, but unfortunately I am getting time to write about it only now. Well, I haven't really been busy with anything, guess the heat is taking it's toll on me and I am just too lazy to do anything.So, 5 of us (from the company I current work for), set out in almost 40 degree celcius on a lazy saturday afternoon (2pm) for this barcamp. Well,

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So, what is this BarCamp? Is it the newest bar in town where everyone jams up to have lots of beer? Unfortunately not :(In response to criticism of Foo Camp, BAR Camp was created as an open, welcoming, once-a-year event for geeks to camp out for a couple days with wifi and smash their brains together.More...

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A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API. Other methods of sourcing content for mashups include Web feeds (e.g. RSS or Atom) and JavaScript.Much the way blogs revolutionized online publishing, mashups are

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This is a test post from a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Finally it's here - the much awaited Bar Camp - Hyderabad.I am so happy because this adhoc conferences movement is now catching up here as well :)The Theme of the conference is:Web 2.0: Rich UI, Tools, Solutions and SOA/Enterprise ApplicationsDate:8th April, 2006Venue:IIIT HyderabadThe Event Wiki Site:http://barcamp.org/BarCampHyderabadStay Tuned for a detailed coverage on this event.More later...

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Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps tackles explaining CSS positioning with a clever and easy to understand tutorial that progresses from static positioning to more advanced topics like using floats and clearing. This is great for anyone new to creating CSS-driven layouts.

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Using prototype.js v1.4.0: "Developer Notes for prototype.js" - an un-official reference for the objects, classes, functions, and extensions provided by this library by Sergio Pereira.

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Particletree · Quick Guide to Prototype: "JavaScript’s increasing popularity throughout the web makes it more important than ever to make sure our client side code is implemented with a nice mix of stability, speed, and reusability. One of the best ways for accomplishing this is to use a simple library and syntax to use as a foundation for every project. Thankfully, Sam Stephenson created an

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Painless JavaScript Using Prototype: "Prototype is an object oriented JavaScript [1] library (written by Sam Stephenson and friends) that makes JavaScript fun. So it says on the site [2], anyway. Those of you who are familiar with the open source community's latest and greatest application framework, Rails, may recognise Prototype as it actually forms the backbone of Rails' JavaScript helper.

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Faster DOM Queries: "Alex Russell, head honcho of the Dojo Foundation, suggests a hideous hack to speed up DOM queries. Why does he want to do this? He wants behavioral extensions to be applied as quickly as possible and he has a point. For a good user experience the code to support a web interface should be applied as quickly as possible. A delay can lead to an unresponsive interface, confusing

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The article that started it all...:)adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications: "If anything about current interaction design can be called “glamorous,” it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online."

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Lightbox JS v2.0: "Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers."

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James Gregory has a written a simple extension for the PeriodicalExecutor class of prototype.js to add a stop() method to it.PeriodicalExecuter.prototype.registerCallback = function() { this.intervalID = setInterval(this.onTimerEvent.bind(this), this.frequency * 1000);}PeriodicalExecuter.prototype.stop = function() { clearInterval(this.intervalID);} All it does is take the current

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Jason has an interesting post on AJAX Timeouts with Prototype, excellent to solve the network issues and keep control on it. A feature that Gmail handles very nicely by displaying an alert message when there is network problems. The code is commented and its very self explanatory.

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The power of AJAX allows for rich user interaction without the trouble that has bugged traditional web applications. Building upon the wonderful Prototype JavaScript library, script.aculo.us provides you with some great additional ingredients to mix in.script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web

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Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.Download the latest version (1.4.0) Just the .js, please Browse the Subversion repositoryCheckout

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JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it eliminates the download cost of clean, literate self-documentation.

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ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript "compression" system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style. Many other tools also shrink JavaScript files, but ShrinkSafe is different. Instead of relying on brittle regular expressions, ShrinkSafe is based on Rhino, a JavaScript interpreter. This allows ShrinkSafe to transform the source of a file

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