Grant Skinner has a good tutorial that saved my skin a while back. Internal Preloading in Flash MX 2004 explains how to get a Flash movie that contains many components to preload properly.
This article is a little old now, but if you’ve just poked your head out of the hole and were wondering what AJAX is all about, Adaptive Path explains that AJAX is a new approach to web applications. This is the article that first coined the term AJAX as a combination of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML.
If you have a website, blog or wiki you’ve probably run into the problem of Referer Spam. If you have or would simply like more information about the problem, visit SpywareInfo’s excellent article titled simply Referer Spam.
Now this is cool – the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a small form factor tablet that will provide access to the internet using your existing WiFi enabled broadband network. The tablet has a 4.13” high-resolution (800×480 pixels) color touch screen and runs using a custom version of Linux named Maemo.
The tablet offers the following software:
Although I couldn’t find what browser is being used, the Nokia site did indicate that:
The browser of the Internet Tablet 2005 software edition supports HTML4.01, XHTML 1.1, cHTML 2.0, JavaScript Core 1.5, ECMAScript 2/3/Mobile Profile, Cascading Style Sheets 1/2/Mobile Profile, Cookies, SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, Certificate management, Embedded Macromedia Flash plug-in, capability to run Multimedia framework to listen/view other multimedia formats, capability to view Adobe PDF documents with native application.
Yahoo! vs. Google is a cool Flash RIA that compares the search results for a specific term between Yahoo and Google.
When working with DOM scripting, it is important to check for the existence of each function prior to using. This can be achieved by using some very simple expressions. Object Detection is a nice reference that shows you the various object expressions and their return values in various browsers.
Matthew Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, has a post that shows a nifty SQL statement. First Letters is a simple statement that will return a list that counts the number of records based on the first letter of a specified field. Handy for building a sorting feature based on the first letter (ie. a | b | c | … x | y | z)
Clay Shirky is sharing a presentation he gave recently at the O’Reilly ETech conference in March 2005 titled Ontology is Overrated—Categories, Links, and Tags. I listened to the downloadable audio version and it is really a fascinating presentation that looks at the past and present of categorizing content.
Stumbled across this last night – the AMFPHP Wiki is a collaborative project to begin creating documentation for the PHP implementation of Flash Remoting. If you have had any experience with AMFPHP, be sure to visit the Wiki and contribute!
Sourceforge is hosting a cool project named gmail-mobile that is a PHP app that provides access to your Gmail accounts on WAP/WML devices.
