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Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » What else is burried down So the new GTalk interface in GMail is pretty rad. Congrats to Dan and the rest of the team that made it “go”. The talk feature is cool not just from a UI perspective as the code is also chock full of little gems. Prototype: Easing AJAX's Pain April 05, 2006 This article describes Prototype, an open source JavaScript library to create an object for an AJAX application. I explain how to use Prototype by describing an environmentally oriented web application that displays an annual atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level. First, I will discuss Prototype's benefits and describe how to set up Prototype in your application. Second, I will delve into the nitty-gritty of how this application puts the library to good practical use. Why Prototype?

Change the TIME_WAIT Timeout to Increase Connections at Registry Guide for Windows Change the TIME_WAIT Timeout to Increase Connections (Windows NT/2000/XP) Popular This setting determines the length of time that a connection will stay in the TIME_WAIT state before being closed. The default is 240 seconds which on a busy server will limit the maximum connections to around 200/sec. Reducing this setting will increase the maximum connection limit. Open your registry and find or create the key below. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "TcpTimedWaitDelay" and set it according to the value data below. Frame / motion animated menus using CSS and Javascript Providing users with relatively accessible menus with animated backgrounds Using classes and non-obtrusive code to compensate for no-javascript environments updated on 16.05.2006: Feature fix created on 22.04.2006

Introduction to Scriptaculous Effects Gather around kids, because this year, much like in that James Bond movie with Denise Richards, Christmas is coming early… in the shape of scrumptuous smooth javascript driven effects at your every whim. Now what I’m going to do, is take things down a notch. Which is to say, you don’t need to know much beyond how to open a text file and edit it to follow this article.

Encrypted blog posts This is the old version. Go here for the newer code. Key (ordinarily kept secret, but shown here for the demos): the-not-so-secret-key Demo 1: Encrypted text shown Creating A Client-Side Web Service Broker June 20, 2005 Initially, I had planned on using the XmlHTTPRequest object to create a client-side application that integrated various web services like Google suggest, del.icio.us, Flickr, Yahoo developer network, etc. Unfortunately, the browser security restrictions severely limit the capabilities of a client-side application, essentially eliminating any cross-domain integration services. However, single-domain services can still be implemented by using the Javascript bootloading technique. Same-Origin Policy The most frustrating part of creating any client-side application is the security model that applies to just about all executable objects that can be accessed by the browser.

Why jQuery’s Philosophy is Better There have been a whole bunch of posts on this blog about the differences in code size between jQuery and Prototype. The basic premise of those posts (which I agree with) is that because of the way jQuery code is structured, all sorts of typical Javascript design patterns are rendered shorter and simpler in the framework when compared with Prototype. For the longest time, I was a confessed Prototype junkie.

Dkey — oats Document Actions Dkey is disambiguation software for computers - it works in a similar way to 'predictive text' on your mobile phone. It is designed to allow quicker text input for people with physical disabilities who can use a keyboard with a small number of keys, for example a number pad keyboard. It can also be used with mouse input, or with switch input via other software. It is designed with people with disabilities in mind, but could be used by anyone.