Jason's weekly blog. Web developent thoughts, ideas and everyday events
Nerdy quote:
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Atcom has created the most complete website software solution for hotel owners that want to benefit from the Digi-lodge subsidy. It is based on the Netvolution Content Management System and it comes with multilingual capabilities, unique web design, easy navigation, online booking system and advanced internet marketing tools.
I am currently flying from Prague to Rome to catch my connection flight back home, to Athens. During the last couple of days I was in Prague attending the Envision event organized by Microsoft. Once I am in the plane trying to kill time I shall start typing in some thoughts about those two interesting days.
If you code in JavaScript you must live on a different planet if you are not aware that Prototype 1.6 has been released a few days ago. It comes in an almost complete rewrite with amazing new features. What does the new version of prototype mean though in the Web development community?
A myth or a reality? Friendly URLs have been the number one issue for search engine optimizers for ages. Do these little user friendly thingies really make a difference?
Holidays are over, batteries are charged and enthusiasm for getting my hands dirty on new things is climbing high.
I will be going on holidays for a couple of weeks. I need a few days off to charge my batteries.
These days I am reading The Art & Science Of CSS by, Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook.
A project that I am working on lately has forced me to work a lot with the Reflection Namespace. This is the first of a series of posts that will show a few examples on how to use the Reflection Namespace using C#.
Today the London Olympics Logo was unveiled to the public. It seems that it has triggered a negative feedback attack.
Prototype has been around for almost couple of years now and it has reached version 1.5 having 1.5.1 RC2 publicly available. Today, I suddenly realized that I have been using Prototype during the last year so much that I feel as if I couldn’t do without it. I just wondered, how did I end up writing JavaScript again?
No really, what is it?
A new era begins for prototype. The most popular JavaScript library has a new website! And yes, after all there is full API Documentation.
Netvolution CMS, a leading Content Management System in Greece has been reborn!
It has been ages since I saw a decent Web IDE focusing on client side scripting and CSS coding. Yesterday I came across to the Aptana website.
During the last few days I noticed spam comments on my blog. I had a look around the web trying to find a solution that I could integrate with my CMS. Unfortunately I didn't find anything so I decided to implement my own filter.
Social networking and blogging which have been growing massively during the last few years have been the source of inspiration for a new, simple but very useful technology. XFM. What is it?
Selecting random rows from a table in a database is a simple task that I had never thought before. I provide examples of how to do this in different database servers.
I have been closely looking into the dot net framework trying to find ways of building a templating system for a CMS. During my research I played around a bit with the System.Web.UI.Design namespace and the ControlParser class and found that it exposes the ParseControl method. I personally found this method very interesting.
As tableless web page designing has become more than just a trend I spotted this interesting tool. A visual CSS layout builder.
Ever since the Web 2.0 and AJAX buzz words appeared, we saw many new ones following. One of them is the "Tag clouds". But what are they?
The arrest of a blogger by Greek police just days before Athens hosts the inaugural meeting of the Internet Governance Forum has left the blogosphere in uproar and the authorities with egg on their face... (By Kieren McCarthy, The Register)
Some people believe that using coding guidelines and patterns is a waste of time. Others, simply cannot live without them.
It has been months since I first intended to get my Website refurbished. Eventually I did find some time to get things going and I am pretty glad about it.