SON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and is a lightweight data-interchange format. Because it is text-based it is easy for humans to read and write, and it has a regular
ne of the coolest features you can add to your Web application is the ability for users to personalize the look-and-feel of the pages all on their own. And often,
he core of any Web site is the navigation mechanism, the menu. If Web sites are primarily about organizing and presenting content, a site’s menu provides the means of traversing
nd-user JavaScript bugs would be easier to debug if you had access to the end-user’s computer. Since you don’t, you can do the next best thing: get users to send
oday’s applications often use XML technology to represent and transfer structured data. You can display the data in an XML document as HTML by applying an XSLT stylesheet transformation to
treaming video is a very fashionable buzz phrase these days thanks to the pervasiveness of Internet video (which is, in turn, thanks, largely, to Flash). However, it’s also a widely
he phrase AJAX is getting all the attention lately. By now, you should already be familiar with the term, but for those of you still in the dark, AJAX represents
ou’d have to be developing web pages on another planet not to have heard the buzz about AJAX (asynchronous Java and XML). Judiciously employed, AJAX calls can enhance the usability
y now you likely have worked with, or at least experimented with, cross-cutting concerns, a core element of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). AOP is an excellent and very compelling approach for