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CSS Tip: Important Property!

April 3rd, 2007 / 1 Comment »

If you have worked in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), you might have noticed that the nested styles take precedence over the global ones. For Example, consider the following,

.box{
width:100px
height:100px
background:silver
border:1px solid black
}

And I use the above style in my page as follows,

JSON Web Services - the XML JSON debate further ahead

April 1st, 2007 / 7 Comments »

I have been keeping a track of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) versus XML for the past couple of months when AJAX came up as a big bang approach. Arun Gupta also recounts his similar experience with the XML JSON debate and concludes,
XML is document-oriented and JSON is data-oriented. So if you want to deal […]

Development and Deployment Structures - the perfect way to build a web application

March 31st, 2007 / 8 Comments »

It is always beneficial to have a development and a deployment structure when building an application. It is a perfect way to build a web application. First of all let’s see what is the difference between them.
Development Structure
It is the structure or hierarchy of files that you make in order to make a separation of […]

LinkedIn - start your own network today

March 29th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

LinkedIn is a a new growing community which I came across a few days ago. Quickly I got registered in it and since then it is a fun routine and enlightening one to visit my LinkedIn  account and getting linked to people across the globe sharing the same interests as mine or working in the […]

Convert Date to String and String to Date in Java

March 28th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

This is quite a common query which is faced by a Java Programmer while dealing with dates. The problem is when a form value returns back the date value input by the user in the form of a string. The application might be using a Date object to hold the date values in the application.
So […]

Ajax Frameworks - Server side versus Client side

March 27th, 2007 / 5 Comments »

The advent of Ajax has brought about a lot of frameworks to the bill board, all boasting about their inept qualities in providing you the best from the rest. But how would you go about choosing a right kind of framework for your application.
In order to make things simple, the overall horde of Ajax frameworks […]

First step in Ajax - Choosing the right framework

March 26th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

If you are going for a framework or a commercial AJAX IDE then first of all you should compare the different frameworks and IDE’s to make sure the availability of all the necessary widgets and functionality which would form a part of your application. There are a lot of frameworks which can help in your […]