AJAX

I had a very simple way to make any tool for myself using IE, XML and javascript with HTML-DOM for past several years. They worked without any server and could do various things (like todo lists, contacts, ascii codes, hex converters etc.) And now I hear that this way (with XMLHttpRequest for server communication) is called AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology :).

FeedBurner

Of course all of you bloggers want your blog to be read by as many readers as possible. Presenting your feed in some universal format (without making would-be subscriber to choose between various formats like RSS, atom, etc.) helps a lot while achieving this goal. You also may be curious how many subscribers you feed has. I guess I won’t be very original saying, that FeedBurner tool suites perfectly in such cases.

Joomla! templates

I guess you know Joomla! – its probably one of the best open source CMS. In short, it’s another name for Mambo 4.5.2.3. Here are some places to find design templates for Joomla!

• http://www.mamboteam.com/


• http://www.doengs.com/


• http://www.konze.de/


• http://www.mambodesign.co.uk/


• http://www.dezinedepot.com/


• http://www.mambodev.com/


• http://www.mambohut.com/


• http://www.ty2u.com/


• http://www.joomlahut.com/


• http://www.joomlactive.com/


• http://www.joomlashack.com/


• http://www.joomladesigns.co.uk

One more issue concerning ActionScript 2

Just noticed. You will get a static array type property if you initialize it in your class declaration like
public var a = new Array(); or public var a = [];.
This should be done in constructor instead.

Interesting (but useless) ideas

Here are two sites, which are built based on quite interesting way of selling page area. Interesting, but seems useless for me…

Million dollar homepage

The world‘s tallest virtual building

ParamArray reserved in vbScript

Interesting thing happened today… I thought I know pretty much about vbScript. Still I stumbled upon unexpected error today, when I called one of my variables ParamArray. Never thought it is reserved…

Here they are all (case insensitive, of course):

And As Boolean ByRef Byte ByVal Call Case Class Const Currency Debug Dim Do Double Each Else ElseIf Empty End EndIf Enum Eqv Event Exit False For Function Get Goto If Imp Implements In Integer Is Let Like Long Loop LSet Me Mod New Next Not Nothing Null On Option Optional Or ParamArray Preserve Private Public RaiseEvent ReDim Rem Resume RSet Select Set Shared Single Static Stop Sub Then To True Type TypeOf Until Variant WEnd While With Xor

Flash cell renderer API bug

I thought, that macromedia flash v2 components are bugs-free by now. Still that’s not true. We found quite obvious one – if you use a cell renderer which changes it’s size (combo box for example) in DataGrid component, you can see that its y coordinate changes (up or down, depending on size increase / decrease) then you resize columns. It’s a bug in DataGridRow class:
Var h=__height;
cell._y = (h-cell._height)/2;

We picked such workaround – combo cells setSize function invokes setInterval function for one time, which sets cells y property back to zero.

Jakob Nielsen and flash UI

Everyone should agree, that UI (user interface) is a crucial part of most applications. It interacts with user. It makes user like or hate our programs. It is obvious, that no UI interface can be nice and convenient for everyone. But if you wish to get close to that, you should consider reading Jakob Nielsen thoughts here.
For me, of course, articles concerning flash are most interesting:
Flash: 99% Bad
Flash and Web-Based Applications

Googlefight

I always wondered if there are any interesting and fun applications based on Google’s API. Of course, there are. And Googlefight is one of them. How, do you think, who will win a fight between ASP and PHP?

Link [ru]

For you guys, who understand Russian, I found an interesting site with lots useful article about various aspects of programming: www.realcoding.net

Google Reader

Have you heard, that Google launched a feed Reader service as an experiment on Google Labs?

doc 2 pdf

Have you ever needed to create a pdf file from your word document? I did. Gladly there is a very simple and low-cost solution – just install PDF printer (virtual printer) and send any document to it. The output will be pdf you needed. You can find some pdf printers here:
OpenSource solution:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Example of pdf printer (with free trial):
http://www.solidprintpdf.com/
Google for others.. :)

A few blog directories

After blogging for some time a natural thought comes – what should I do, that more people would be able to read it? Maybe I should place it to some public blog catalogs? So here are some of these, that could be found after some googling (this blog was submitted there too):




http://portal.eatonweb.com/

http://www.globeofblogs.com/