(Jeni Tennison) I’m exhausted after two days of teaching XSLT 1.0. Yes, there are still people out there who want to learn it. The exhaustion comes mainly because I’m an introvert (INFP, Myers-Briggs fans!) who finds it tiring just being in the same room as someone else.

(Uche Ogbuji) Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabilities of Web browsers. The Mozilla project’s XUL engine is a user-interface language that you can use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone applications. XUL is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform browser ex

(Jim Mischel) XML has over the years proved to be a very convenient form for storing and transferring information. To be sure, there are problems with XML: it’s very verbose, takes enormous amounts of disk space, and doesn’t lend itself well to storing binary data or random access. But it’s very con

(Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.) There are plenty of articles out there dealing with consuming RSS, but only a few dealing with making your own. Furthermore, every time I use the xsd.exe tool published by Microsoft, I find people who have never heard of it. Despite its limitations, it is a good tool that need

(Todd Lauinger) Very shortly after completing step 1 of any development project—getting the code working—good software developers will stop to consider the lifespan of the code. They understand that the effort put into the code needs to directly correspond to its anticipated lifespan. Take for examp

(Steve K Speicher) XForms is intended to be used embedded within other markup. The most widely used, and the focus of this article, is within XHTML. There is a need to write your XHTML documents following some guidelines to ensure a smooth experience of a variety of browsers like Microsoft’s® Intern

(Michael Markowski) You may have heard this before, but it’s truer now than ever – it’s a great time to be a ColdFusion developer. ColdFusion 8 is coming soon, and it will bring with it an array of new tags and features for developers who want to build sophisticated, feature-rich Web applications ea

(Gautam Kumar Singh) Many developers have adopted AJAX as a way to develop rich web applications that are almost as interactive and responsive as desktop applications. AJAX works by dividing the web UI into different segments. A user can perform an operation on one segment and then start working on

(Martin Brown) In this final article of a four-part series, develop an application that takes VoiceXML as input and queries the Yahoo Search API for both basic Web searches and Yahoo local searches. The query returns information about businesses within a specific location and region. The application

(Brian Reindel) One of my coworkers recently expressed some displeasure with debates that are fundamentally fueled by industry experts. The discussions are typically inflated with bias, academic tripe, and are of little use to the every day working (wo)man. I could not disagree. In the spirit of red