Browsing posts in the ‘Web Development’ category
Tutorial: HTML5 & CSS3
Since the World Wide Web emerged in the early 1990s, HTML has evolved to become a relatively powerful markup language, which, when backed up by its close partners JavaScript and CSS, can be used to create visually stunning and interactive Web sites and applications. This...
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Compare JavaScript Frameworks
Modern Web sites and Web applications tend to rely quite heavily on client-side JavaScript to provide rich interactivity, particularly through the advent of asynchronous HTTP requests that do not require page refreshes to return data or responses from a server-side script or database system. In...
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Deploying Django
In this IBM developerWorks article, I investigate the Django web development framework - an excellent MVC-style framework for building dynamic web applications in Python. I look at setting up a Django development environment, discuss the key components of a Django web application and then discover...
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Utilizing Web 2.0 in Business
Back in February an article I wrote, "Implementing Enterprise 2.0" was published on IBM developerWorks (read the blog entry about this article here). Around the same time as I wrote this piece I also wrote a piece titled "Utilizing Web 2.0 in Business". This article...
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Implementing Enterprise 2.0
My latest IBM developerWorks article was published yesterday, titled "Implementing Enterprise 2.0 - Balancing social networking and community with collaborative tools and services". The article looks at the concepts and technology behind the term Enterprise 2.0, its relationship to Web 2.0 and how it is...
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Facebook Gallery in Flex
In November 2008, a tutorial I wrote titled "Implement a Facebook photo album using the Flex SDK" was published on IBM's developerWorks website. The tutorial begins by introducing the Facebook platform and explaining how a Facebook application is created. It then moves on to the...
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