(David Johnson, Alexei White and Andre Charland) The book, Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications, resulted from the authors’ inspiration to address the dearth of information available for more advanced topics in AJAX development. Primarily because people in the i

(Nidal Arabi) DropShadow is an extender which applies a Drop Shadow to a Panel. It allows you to specify how wide the shadow is as well as how opaque it is, or if you would like rounded corners. This article examines this ASP.NET AJAX control with the help of a sample project.

(Koushik Biswas) In my earlier article, I introduced the concept of REST web services. Before rushing on to how to implement or code a REST web service, first we have to stop at the design station. I know many developers who are more eager to start coding before spending some time on a proper design

(Jeni Tennison) The XSL Working Group gave some comments recently on the Last Call Working Draft of XProc. One of the comments was about a bunch of standard steps that we’ve specified which do things you can do in XSLT, such as renaming certain nodes. These steps generally use XPath expressions or X

(Brian Sletten) Do you like to relax in the morning over a cup of coffee and the “zoopepe”? Do you like to put “kapatz” on your “hogatz”? These are obviously meaningless terms to most people, but it is easy to imagine a young child using them in place of “newspaper,” “ketchup,” and “hotdog” because

(Doug Tidwell) In a recent article we looked at XSLT 2.0 functions that allowed us to generate an attractive HTML table that represented the results of an XML tournament (a bracket). What we didn’t address in that article is how to fill in the winners and losers for that XML tournament. In this arti

(Sajjad) As a general rule, when you develop any reasonably-complex piece of software, it’s a good idea to take time to identify the product’s key configuration variables, and then separate these from the standard variable namespace and place them in a separate area.

(Marc Van Cappellen) I was reading an interesting discussion yesterday on xquery-talk, replacing a node in in-memory XML.

(Constantine Plotnikov, Artem Papkov and Jim Smith) Web 2.0 applications developed using standard Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE)-based approaches face serious performance and scalability problems. The reason is that many principles that underlie the Java EE platform’s design — especia

(Justin Whitney) Similar to Microsoft Office Business Applications, “Unified Communications” (UC) describes not a single product, but rather an entire architectural concept. Unlike Microsoft Office Business Applications (OBA), UC goes beyond interconnected software to include hardware devices, with