5 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Development & QAJune 24th, 2008 These add-ons are so useful that I cannot work for a single day without them and so I would suspect most web developers and QA Engineers. These plugins / add-ons makes Firefox a formidable web development and testing platform.
How To Use SAJAX (AJAX Framework) from HTMLMay 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).
How To Make AJAX Calls With ExtJS EasilyAugust 14th, 2007 Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element.
35 Best Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers and Web DesignersFebruary 12th, 2009 Most of web designers and developers prefer Firefox to other browsers. Whether you are a front-end graphics designer or web programmer who has been generating web-based solution for some time now, I hope you know about Firefox functionalities.
Analysis & Solution: Security Vulnerability Discovered in DWR, Open Source Java AJAX Development FrameworkJanuary 9th, 2007 Security vendor Imperva has identified an access-control vulnerability in DWR, Java Open Source AJAX development framework (stable release 1.1.3 and 2.0), which it says an attacker can use to compromise a DWR based application which may in turn enable him to say break into back-end databases or servers or launch a denial-of-service-attack. On a positive note Imperva commented that DWR, AJAX Web application development framework, is
"emerging as the lingua franca for building new generation Web 2.0 applications" :)
Forceful Method Invocation Attacks
The key issue is how DWR restricts access to not exposed class methods.
AJAX-Javascript File Upload FormJuly 21st, 2007 Ext extension UploadForm is a new extension to easily upload multiple files from web interface to a server. The files are added to a queue first and then uploaded.
3 Essential Firefox Add-ons for GeeksJanuary 13th, 2009 We have talked about so many Firefox add-ons till date but all on a sudden,I realized today that we missed out on the geeky aspect of Firefox add- ons. So without further ado, lemme present to you, 3 very useful apps for geeks.
Learn How to Develop Extensions for Firefox 1.5 and Later; Participate in FireFox Extension Development ContestNovember 5th, 2005 Firefox 1.5 introduced two new features which drastically simplify extension development - the greatly simplified chrome registration scheme and reworked Extension Manager. Read this article to get started with extensions development.
Free 10 Week AJAX Programming Online CourseJuly 14th, 2006 A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.
When *not to* use AJAXApril 18th, 2005 An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax.
How To Debug Execution Path in PHP...Equivalent of printStackTrace() in JavaMarch 1st, 2007 While programming in PHP often you will find that a simple echo or log statement is not sufficient. You have found out where a problem is happening but you have no clue why it is executing that code in the first place.
How To Easily Develop Firefox ExtensionsJune 21st, 2006 Paul Adams explains how you can develop Firefox extensions using the handy Extension Developer's Extension. The example is easy enough but don't be fooled.
Solving CSS Stylesheet Not Loading / Rendering ErrorJuly 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.
Resizing Applets from Java code - A second passFebruary 12th, 2004 Challenge: Resizing applet from within Java code. For example say the applet code calculates that the applet needs more space than it has been allocated, then how to go about it?
Last time when faced with this problem I solved it with a nifty piece of Javascript method.
Microsoft Unveils Windows Live PortalMarch 10th, 2006 Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are:
Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar
Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX.