My Portal Project

Jack Slocum has an excellent piece on Javascript memory leaks. This is another reason why I like the YUI libraries (besides the excellent documentation); it is clean.

Officials of the world’s largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail.
Coming late 2006.

Selenium: A free Firefox extension that can handle all of your repetitive functional testing requirements for your browser application. Sound like a browser activity recorder? Selenium can handle error alerts, ajax updates, and dynamically generated HTML, which most activity recorders fail miserably with. I cannot get enough of this application, it has already […]

You can hardly click a google link without running into a PHPBB powered forum, but Jack Slocum has taken it to the next level by rewriting the PHPBB UI using AJAX, and his YUI Grid extension. A very cool piece of work that you can see here. Jack’s Grid extension for the YUI libraries is an excellent addition to that package, and for the Dojo libraries, a new Spreadsheet extension is out.

How many of us use Visio to map our processes? How many of us feel that “it gets the job done for the most part”? What would you say about a product that can help you map your processes and let you run simulations on those processes so you can find bottlenecks before […]

Another day, another cool tool for the Prototype/Scriptaculous libraries. A few months ago, the Lightbox method hit the RSS feeds, and now somebody wrote a special Prototype.js class that creates multiple types of “windows” on your pages. They can be movable, draggable, and customized to the extent of your CSS prowess.

The code required […]

A simple workflow designer that allows you to drag names from a list of employees, to another list that is your process workflow. Using the Scriptaculous sortable list effect, this tool allows your average user to redesign workflows on the fly in a very intuitive way.

After being shown the Scriptaculous effects library, my usual […]

As of today, Microsoft now has available express editions of Visual Studio .NET. You can download for free any of these lightweight versions of the .NET development tools:

For Web Development:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
For Windows Development:
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Database Development:
SQL […]

Hat tip to Jerry Carter and Mark Barton for this excellent find; CodeIgniter MVC application framework for PHP. If you do any PHP development, or would like to see an excellent Model-View-Controller (MVC) tutorial, you owe it to yourself to give this tool a look-see.
First and foremost, CodeIgniter is a pretty kick-ass framework tool […]

So how does Open Office.org “Writer” compare against MS Office “Word”? I’ll start this with just some menu comparisons so you can see that the majority of options used in Word are also in Writer. There are definitely some differences in how certain tasks are executed, but I’ll show later how that is […]