Not terribly long ago, XML was the darling of the web. HTML4 was reformulated as XHTML 1.0, SOAP messages were XML, and let us not forget XMLHttpRequest. XML’s 15 minutes of fame came and went, however, when JSON entered the scene. Your ajax request today is far...
During the course of any complex project (and even many simple ones), on the way to accomplish the actual goal, you’re certain to encounter any number of small hurdles along the way – little problems which need to be resolved for the bigger picture to come...
Recently, I was engaged in a genial argument with a friend of an older generation, each of us taking an opposing stance on some obscure trivia neither of us was entirely certain about – but which we were both ready to defend with all the wit and rhetoric at our...
So, you’ve got a link that, in reality, is just a click target for performing some javascript function. You want the appearance of a standard anchor link, but if it’s not performing the intended function, should it really be an anchor? And if so, what...
Virtualization is one of the many benefits of the excess (metaphorical) horsepower available to us with modern hardware. Need to test against (Windows XP/7/8/NT || Fedora || Mint || Ubuntu || FreeBSD || MacOSX || etc)? Fire up the VM. Need a Linux environment for the...