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Plone and Drupal: Different Approaches, Different Results
paul.nowak wrote: Matt, thanks for the comments. I made an error on the version of Plone. It's 2.5 Plone running on Zope 2.9x. In regards to the additional products, we have a skin installed and we have a product that we had custom developed for us that connects to a PostgreSQL database. We've looked at slow PostgreSQL queries causing problems and have not been able to find an issue. We've also tested for the case where the PostgreSQL server is down and have not been able to create an issue. We therefor...
Nov. 4, 2009 04:19 PM EST
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Moving to the Cloud: How Hard is it Really?
By Ellen Rubin
Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...
Sep. 27, 2009 06:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,944
Adding Rounded Corners to HTML with CSS
By Matthew David
Cascading Styles Sheets 3, or CSS3, comes packed with a number of great new features. In this article you will learn how to use CSS to created rounded corners to rectangles without having to use a complex image cheat.
Sep. 10, 2009 10:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,293
A Review of Key PDF and Font Concepts
By Franc Gagnon
This article is the first of two that will look at some of the challenges faced by developers and non-developers who work with PDF technologies and who are curious about what causes fonts in a PDF to render incorrectly or even go missing. Specifically, these documents provide an overvi...
May. 14, 2009 05:00 PM EDT  Reads: 2,611
AJAX and RIA 2009: More Choices, Tough Decisions
By Martin Heller
The story of software development in the last few years has been driven by the need to provide a good user experience without installation issues and update woes. For some people that has meant building "smart client" applications, as promoted by Microsoft. For others, that has meant b...
Apr. 15, 2009 01:00 PM EDT  Reads: 10,374  Replies: 2
How to Choose an RIA Solution
By Robbie Cheng
There are currently more than 200 RIA solutions available, and this number grows daily. Each RIA solution has its strengths and weaknesses, and the levels of security, accessibility, and integration vary. Choosing a suitable RIA solution for creating or enhancing Web applications becom...
Dec. 30, 2008 06:00 AM EST  Reads: 10,978  Replies: 2
Tooling Up for Web 2.0
By Shay Shmeltzer
Most of the discussion surrounding Web 2.0 applications revolves around the way it revolutionized end users' interaction with applications and with other users. An area that is sometimes left out of the discussion is the impact Web 2.0 had on the developers who are actually building th...
Dec. 16, 2008 06:00 AM EST  Reads: 4,501
RIA and Cloud Computing Apps
By Avigdor Luttinger
We are using software applications more than ever before. As the demand for new capabilities and functions grows, companies strive to provide an adequate response to business needs. The rate of application evolution places an ever-larger burden on the shoulders of software producers, v...
Nov. 26, 2008 09:45 AM EST  Reads: 4,847
AJAXWorld: Top 10 Lessons Learned Using AJAX
By Rod Cope
The Web 2.0 phenomenon of the last couple years – which has been picking up steam recently – is largely dependent on AJAX. This concept is beneficial to both the developer and user, as it makes programming Web applications more fun while enhancing the user experience. As a developer I ...
Oct. 23, 2008 06:45 AM EDT  Reads: 3,447
JavaScript Powers Up the Server Side
By Kevin Hakman; Davey Waterson
Aptana Jaxer is a new open source application server built especially for AJAX application development in JavaScript. To say that "Jaxer lets you do JavaScript on the server-side" would be accurate, but an understatement. The core concept of Jaxer is that it provides a parity of enviro...
Sep. 4, 2008 03:43 PM EDT  Reads: 1,821
AJAXWorld RIA Conference - Speaker Mike Girouard's JavaScript Design Patterns, #2
By Michael Girouard
Load time configuration is the process where a JavaScript application configures itself as it is being loaded. This pattern is most commonly found in libraries in which they configure themselves at load time to be optimized for a particular browser. Load time configuration is also know...
Aug. 24, 2008 02:45 PM EDT  Reads: 2,703
Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use
By Richard Monson-Haefel
The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...
Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT  Reads: 26,691  Replies: 6
Betting on Java for AJAX
By Brian Albers
Each day as an AJAX developer seems to bring another helpful revelation: a new tool, a new gadget, a new way to reinvent the browser. But even when I'm confronted with a breakthrough as big as Firebug - the brilliant debugging tool for Firefox - in the back of my mind I'm reminded that...
Dec. 14, 2007 06:15 PM EST  Reads: 8,728
When Does AJAX Make Business Sense?
By Jon Ferraiolo
Hard-nosed executives recognize that there are costs associated with any benefit. To convince today's upper-level decision makers to approve strategic investments, they need to hear more than phrases like 'essential to the business,' 'the results are too unpredictable,' and 'yields int...
Jun. 8, 2007 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 23,568
Mobile AJAX FAQ - What Is Mobile AJAX?
By Ajit Jaokar; Rocco Georgi; Bryan Rieger
Mobile AJAX is the extension of AJAX principles to the mobile environment, which includes other constrained devices such as gaming consoles or set-top boxes featuring Web browsers. While technologically the same thing, Mobile AJAX is looked at as a special case of AJAX, as it deals wit...
Jun. 5, 2007 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 9,991


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