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JS Prototype Tutorial

Mr nCoded — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:44:22 +0000

Here’s a quick Prototype tutorial for those looking for a simple javascript slide show. This is not intended to be a JQuery discussion or tutorial, but a quick prototype tutorial. The desired result is an efficient, useful javascript slide show coded in prototype Javascript.

Transfer Dreamweaver CS3/MX Sites

Mr nCoded — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:21:51 +0000

OK so you have your sites setup in Dreamweaver MX 2004 or CS3 and now you want to move them to a different computer. These are steps that you need to do in order to the move successfully.

Please note that if you are moving the sites from the same version of MS Windows e.g. Windows XP to another Windows XP, or MS Vista to another MS Vista it makes the process simpler and quicker. Essentially if you are moving to a different version then you will need to redefine the site root for each site which is easy but a little time consuming.

Complete steps to follow.

Dreamweaver CS3

Mr nCoded — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:49:35 +0000

As a WYSIWYG IDE (integrated development environment), Dreamweaver can hide the HTML code details of pages from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites. One criticism of this approach is that it can produce HTML pages whose file size and amount of HTML code is larger than an optimally hand-coded page would be, which can cause web browsers to perform poorly. This can be particularly true because the application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts.

In addition, some web site developers have criticized Dreamweaver in the past for producing code that often does not comply with W3C standards, though recent versions have been more compliant. Dreamweaver 8.0 performed poorly on the Acid2 Test, developed by the Web Standards Project. However, Adobe has increased the support for CSS and other ways to lay out a page without tables in later versions of the application, with the ability to convert tables to layers and vice versa.

Please note that in the future we hope to do a full review of software based web IDE’s such as Dreamweaver in order to show what is available both commercially and via Open Source.

The Eclipse I.D.E

Mr nCoded — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:48:57 +0000

The Eclipse IDE is one of the best Open source integrated development environments available for free download. It has one of the largest modular plug-in systems which means it can pretty much handle most languages as well as modelling frameworks such as UML as well as language frameworks such as Zend Framework and Cake PHP.

You can also read the official explanation for the Eclipse IDE below:

Eclipse is a multi-language software development platform comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it. It is written primarily in Java and is used to develop applications in this language and, by means of the various plug-ins, in other languages as well — C/C++, Cobol, Python, Perl, PHP and more.

The initial code base originated from VisualAge.In its default form it is meant for Java developers, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development tool-kits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. Language packs provide translations into over a dozen natural languages.