Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know - ReadWriteWeb The future of software development is about good craftsmen. With infrastructure like Amazon Web Services and an abundance of basic libraries, it no longer takes a village to build a good piece of software. These days, a couple of engineers who know what they are doing can deliver complete systems. In this post, we discuss the top 10 concepts software engineers should know to achieve that. A successful software engineer knows and uses design patterns, actively refactors code, writes unit tests and religiously seeks simplicity. InterfacesConventions and TemplatesLayeringAlgorithmic ComplexityHashingCachingConcurrencyCloud Computing SecurityRelational Databases 10. Relational Databases have recently been getting a bad name because they cannot scale well to support massive web services. At the core of the relational database is the concept of representing information in records. 9. With the rise of hacking and data sensitivity, the security is paramount. 8. 7. 6. Caching comes with a cost.
ongoing · REST Questions My goodness, there’s certainly a lot of REST talk these days. I’m partly responsible; Paul Krill and I had a long talk at OSCON and he chose to pull out my dissing WS-* for his title: Sun technologist: SOAP stack a ‘failure’. This led to an incredibly long discussion thread on Yahoo Groups’ (irritatingly-named) “service-orientated-architecture” forum. Damien Katz was another provocateur, firing off REST, I just don't get it and “The web is built on REST. Therefore REST is good” Bullshit. This provoked Dare Obsanjo to a burst of restrained pedagogy in Explaining REST to Damien Katz. Has REST Been Fortunate in its Enemies? Lousy foundational technologies (XSD and WSDL).A Microsoft/IBM-driven process that was cripplingly product-linked and political.Designers undereducated in the realities of the Web as it is.Unnecessary detours into Architecture Astronautics. And so on. Is Getting HTTP Right Good Enough?
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Rent A Coder The Business of Freelancing Creative... 8 Web Databases for Tracking, Collecting and Recording Data - Stepcase Lifehack There are many applications on the web that are made for collecting and storing data. Today we’re taking a look at a bunch of different web-based databases that you might find useful for everything from client records to details about the vaccinations each of your thirteen dogs have had in the last few years. Whatever tickles your fancy. Blist Blist‘s goal is to fool you into forgetting that underneath the glossy interface, there’s a relational database that the average user doesn’t know much about. In terms of interface, Blist works somewhat like everyone’s favorite basic database, the spreadsheet. Wufoo Wufoo isn’t so much about a database that you populate: it’s a service that allows you to create quite attractive HTML forms so you can collect information from visitors to your site, without needing to learn a programming language to do it. Zoho Creator Zoho Creator basically allows you to create simple database applications using a flashy AJAX interface and a lot of wizard goodness.
Create apple.com-like breadcrumb using simple CSS I believe you all know what breadcrumbs are. If I would have to make a simplest, rough definition I could say it is a navigation pattern that shows a path from the home page to the current one. If you are still unsure what breadcrumbs are (or my “definition” is too rough) be sure to read Breadcrumbs pattern explanation on Welie.com In its simplest form it usually looks like this: You are here: Home > Sample page 1 > Sample page 2 > Current page But we are going to enhance this simple form and to create a breadcrumb that is similar to the one on apple.com. Let’s create something that looks like this As you can see on the screenshot above, breadcrumb has a soft gray gradient and a separator that looks like a right arrow. So what would be the best way to create a breadcrumb? In the example above we have unordered list that has four list items. If you try to see this example in a browser you would see a simple bulleted list. First we’ll style UL element: Believe it or not that’s all. Conclusion
100 Insanely Useful Web Tools You Never Knew You Needed Posted by admin in Features, Library & Research Jul 9th, 2008 There are so many tools available on the Internet, it’s difficult to keep up with them all, and some are just downright silly while others make life much easier. This list highlights 100 web tools that fall into the latter, more useful category and help you with some aspect of your life, whether it’s managing your time, more efficiently surfing the web, or planning a perfect vacation. Productivity Find ways to take notes, schedule meetings, and plan your day with these handy tools. orangoo. Making Life Easier In this world of multitasking and busy schedules, everyone can use a little help to make life go more smoothly. DailyLit. Mobile Using your mobile phone to get things done more efficiently is even easier with these tools. TeleFlip. Making Computing Easier These tools will help you do everything from combining IMs to reducing spam to converting files. Bugmenot.com. Google Tools Google SMS. Finances mint. For the Family Handipoints.
Invoice and Timesheet Tracking | invotrak Rockable Press 22 Online Web / Design magazines you should look at | Design Shard | Web Design Blog So i was looking for some nice resources and found some really cool online art and design magazines that provide some very interesting reading while I wasn’t working, This post isn’t based around web design inperticular and explores other areas of art and design, there are a lot of interesting ideas that can be found once you start looking. some of them have a few links to other new and exciting websites and blogs, The work found on these sites are very artistic and inspirational and ill certainly be looking further in to some of these, hope you all find it as interesting as I did. Reader Recommendations updated: 11 Aug 2008 Any one knows of any other magazine sites that provide a good source of interesting reading and imagery.
Masked Input Plugin First, include the jQuery and masked input javascript files. Next, call the mask function for those items you wish to have masked. Optionally, if you are not satisfied with the underscore ('_') character as a placeholder, you may pass an optional argument to the maskedinput method. Optionally, if you would like to execute a function once the mask has been completed, you can specify that function as an optional argument to the maskedinput method. You can now supply your own mask definitions. jQuery(function($){ $.mask.definitions['~']='[+-]'; $("#eyescript").mask("~9.99 ~9.99 999");}); You can have part of your mask be optional. jQuery(function($){ $("#phone").mask("(999) 999-9999? If your requirements aren't met by the predefined placeholders, you can always add your own. jQuery(function($){ $("#phone").mask("#hhhhhh");}); By design, this plugin will reject input which doesn't complete the mask.
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