http://tcftc.com Solutions for modern developers Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, most web applications have the ability for the user to share various types of information. Blogs allow readers to post comments, email clients are fully web-based, social wiki sites let people submit revisions, and so forth. All of this is possible because of the oldest HTML element-the ... http://tcftc.com/web-20/enhancing-web-forms-with-rich-text-editors/ In this article, I will look at the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library in more detail. The YUI is an AJAX framework, but it is also a generic JavaScript library that provides a lot of Web 2.0 widgets or UI elements, effects, and tools for web developers. http://tcftc.com/web-20/what-can-the-yahoo-user-interface-yui-library-do-for-your-site/ Web 2.0 can be thought of as two concurrent and unrelated things: advances in technology and a new business model for web companies. This article will examine the Web 2.0 movement and what it means for the end clients, what Web 2.0 means for the web UI, ... http://tcftc.com/web-20/the-web-20-movement-is-here-but-what-does-it-mean-to-you/ In this article, I will discuss the Direct Web Remoting (DWR) technology developed by Joe Walker and maintained by the small IT consultancy Getahead in UK. This technology is a unique way of Ajax-enabling existing Java server-side code by exposing it in JavaScript. This sounds complicated but, in ... http://tcftc.com/java/a-field-guide-to-java-direct-web-remoting-dwr-2/ In this article, I will discuss implementing an Ajax-enabled scrollable table, in which rows are dynamically fetched from the server, as the user scrolls, without the whole page refreshing. This technique is unique and very convenient for implementing pages with a lot of dynamic content in a readable ... http://tcftc.com/web-20/implementing-dynamic-scroll-with-ajax-javascript-and-xml/ In this article, I will look at the latest and upcoming releases of the Spring Java framework. In one of my previous articles, "Spring: the Eclectic Framework," I discussed the Spring application framework. But since then, Interface21, the company responsible for development and support of the framework, implemented ... http://tcftc.com/java/spring-21-grows-new-features-and-evolutionary-enhancements/ Web pagination is something every web user takes for granted, but for developers a lot of consideration goes into implementing it. The web pagination mechanism will automatically improve responsiveness of the system, user experience, and may reduce clutter on the page. In this article, I will discuss different ... http://tcftc.com/java-web-dev/implementing-search-result-pagination-in-a-web-application/ In one of my previous articles, I introduced a lot of different AJAX frameworks. In this article, I will look in more detail at the Script.aculo.us framework and discuss why you may want to use it in your web applications. Script.aculo.us is purely a client-side framework that gives ... http://tcftc.com/web-20/make-your-site-scriptaculous/ In this article, I will discuss the Direct Web Remoting (DWR) technology developed by Joe Walker and maintained by the small IT consultancy Getahead in UK. This technology is a unique way of Ajax-enabling existing Java server-side code by exposing it in JavaScript. This sounds complicated ... http://tcftc.com/java/a-field-guide-to-java-direct-web-remoting-dwr/ I originally published this article on the Developer.com in December of 2006, hence the holiday twist in the name and the content. AJAX is the one of the latest buzz acronyms. It stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML" and actually does not define a single new technology, but a group ... http://tcftc.com/web-20/the-twelve-days-of-ajax/