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No Cost AJAX Online Training Course
Jul 23rd
I have found a really cool and excellent resource for anyone wanting to fully understand AJAX. A man by the name of Sing Sang, who is a technology architect and consultant for Sun Microsystems, has created a 10 week long AJAX training course. Best yet, it’s cost nothing to register and take the course.
I’ve More >
Looking to Start Bloggin?
Jul 23rd
It’s been a few years now that I’ve had this site and started blogging. I feel pretty lucky because when I started, I started off with WordPress.
At the time there were several options available to me, and I think it was the name, ‘WordPress’, that drew me to using it for my blogging system. More >
How To Create an RSS Aggregator with PHP and AJAX
Jul 15th
Over on Informit.com is a great article I found that shows step-by-step how to create an RSS Aggregator with PHP and AJAX.
This seems like a great tutorial to get you started on AJAX, since it covers GET and POST to PHP via JavaScript, which is what’s required for AJAX.
It follows with a section on parsing More >
PSD to HTML/CSS Template
Jul 8th
If you ever created a site layout in Photoshop or purchased a PSD template file from one of the template sites, getting your PSD to a nice XHTML/CSS Template can sometimes seem impossible. I recently found this article that should help you learn how to analyze either a new template, or even your current More >
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2
May 30th
Recently I have been working with some Photoshop tutorials so that I can produce better graphics for my websites. Graphics have always been my weak area. In the past I’ve tried to use as much CSS as possible to cover that up.
I have learned the combination of some farily simple graphics and css More >
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