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In this article, I will introduce you to an old concept that seems to be forgotten by most web developers today: the importance of logging. Additionally, I’ll walk you through some of functions designed to keep your logging more organized.

Submitted by: JDStraughan
Submitted on: Aug 7, 2009

Javascript is a weird language. Great but weird. Take functions for example. You cannot only pass any type of arguments, you can also pass any number of arguments. This may be quite disturbing, especially for Java developers. Recently I had a discussion with a Java developer who complained about missing code assistance in Javascript, by which he meant no hint about the type of an argument.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: Aug 5, 2009

Let’s see in this simple tutorial how we can read our timeline and update our status from a simple piece of PHP code.

Submitted by: JohnGalt
Submitted on: Aug 6, 2009

While it is true HTML5 and CSS3 are both a work in progress and is going to stay that way for some time, there’s no reason not to start using it right now. After all, time’s proven that implementation of unfinished specifications does work and can be easily mistaken by a complete W3C recommendation. That’s were Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation come into play.

Submitted by: JohnGalt
Submitted on: Aug 6, 2009

We see tooltip almost everyday on the web. And most of us know there are a lot of way of doing this. Personally, i think the easily way of accomplished this is by using CSS. Although there are disadvantage and advantages of doing this which we will discuss later. Nonetheless, it is one of the most easiest way of accomplished a tooltip. (although the MOST easily way is to just use a title attribute in the tag without any additional code)

Submitted by: JohnGalt
Submitted on: Aug 4, 2009

The Google App Engine (GAE) is a wonderful playground for your apps, especially when you have no server at hand. It gives you everything you need for free, up to a certain limit. As I happened to be a Java developer it became really interesting when the GAE started supporting Java. You have to register for a GAE account and then apply for Java to be activated. There is a small waiting time but there still seem to be open slots.

Submitted by: wingi
Submitted on: Aug 5, 2009

URL handling is one of the tasks you have to do from time to time in PHP. Sometimes you have to do it because you want to record the referral sites, other times because you want to write your own spider or just because you want to retrieve your current URL.

Submitted by: TJHooker
Submitted on: Aug 5, 2009

MooTools allows you to easily add event listeners to elements using the addEvent and removeEvent methods. One thing MooTools doesn’t have is a hasEvent method which will check an element’s list of listeners to see if the element has been assigned a specific function per event. I experimented with implementing this functionality and believe I’ve found the best solution.

Submitted by: JohnGalt
Submitted on: Aug 6, 2009

For reasons of performance and organization, chances are you're going to want to spread returned database results across several pages if a lengthy number are returned. However, doing so manually can be a tedious chore, requiring you to track things such as the number of results per page, the page number, and the current offset of the overarching query result. Recognizing this importance of such a feature, the Zend Framework developers created the Zend_Paginator component, giving developers an easy way to paginate result sets without having to deal with all of the gory details otherwise involved in a custom implementation.

Submitted by: JohnGalt
Submitted on: Aug 6, 2009

You already know how to define or assign functions directly, use multi parameter arguments in anonymous calls and know all the different variants of the function-constructor? Then you won't find anything new about the subtle differences in using functions in JavaScript.

Submitted by: wingi
Submitted on: Aug 5, 2009