How to Write Better JavaScript with TIBCO PageBus™

TIBCO PageBus™ is a JavaScript library that can help you make your JavaScript code more modular and easier to maintain and extend. business card credit processing smallbank card credit direct merchant payment,bank card credit direct merchant,bank card credit direct merchant nabest reward credit cardgreen dot prepaid credit cardcalculator card consolidation creditcredit card balance transfer offercard comparison consolidate credit debtbank card credit orchard unsecuredcapitol card credit one payment,hsbc credit card payment,credit card paymentcard credit offer visaaccount card credit merchant processingbusiness credit card online applicationcard credit payment searsuk cashback credit cardbank card credit monogramcard credit debt help onlinebank card credit merricksmall business credit card applicationcredit card free balance transfercard credit debt help payapply card credit ukbusiness credit card consolidationcapital one unsecured credit card bad credit,bad credit master card,bad credit credit cardcard credit merchant service wireless,credit card payment service,credit card servicescredit card debt counselingvisa reward credit card,card credit point reward visacard consolidation credit debt loancard credit number validcard credit debt help karenbank card credit login orchardchase bank credit card,chase bank credit card paymentcard credit machine wireless,wireless credit card machinebad card credit credit studentbad card creditjuniper bank credit cardapproval canada card credit instantorchard bank credit card logincanadian visa credit card applicationcard consolidation credit ukassociate citibank credit cardcard credit hsbc philippinehsbc credit card philippineshell gas credit cardmbna credit card loginapplication canadian card credit visaciti bank credit cardcard chase credit online paymentcard credit free online,card credit free online processing,free online credit cardapplication card credit instant onlineamerica bank card credit worldpoints,bank of america credit card,bank of america credit card sign in
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Security Alert for Vistered Little Theme

Wordpress Blogs using Vistered Little are being targeted by hackers

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How to Create Resolution Independent Web Pages

Imagine a web page to automatically senses the size of your browser and renders the content so it fits perfectly. No horizontal scrolling. No blank columns. Everything just fits, as though it was made with just you in mind.

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The Secret of Super Fast Lightboxes

The lightbox technique is a beautiful combination of (X)HTML, Javascript and CSS, allowing images or (X)HTML elements to be shown in a modal fashion on top of the page the user is browsing. Traditionally lightboxes have been implemented using Javascript, yet most of the functionality can be archived using (X)HTML, CSS and no Javascript at all.
This article describes a PoC demonstrating the lightbox technique using no Javascript by taking advantage of the :target pseudo-class, which is part of the Selectors Module of the CSS 3 Working Draft. This also means this technique only works in Firefox and Safari at the moment.
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How to Create a Javascript Speedometer

This is just a simple PoC of a Javascript speedometer for a colleague of mine.

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The Secret of Keeping Web Apps Responsive

With AJAX becoming more and more common place on the web, old lessons need to be re-leant in order to create user interfaces that don't hang.

Anyone with any AJAX experience will be familiar with the problem. You fire off your AJAX request, you get your response, you update the page and everything is good… except it isn't. Updating the page takes forever and while that's happening the user can't do anything, not scroll, navigate to another page or even close the current page.
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Skinner Plugin and Presentation Toolkit Plugin

As part of the development of the soon the be released Vistered Little 1.7, I created a skin selector based on the Theme selector that comes with WordPress, which has resulted in the Skinner Plugin. Now all themes can enjoy the benefits of being skinable.

I've also created a Presentation Toolkit Plugin based on the Wordpress Theme Toolkit by Ozh. It's basically the same, except now it's a plugin and it supports skins (i.e. with the Skinner Plugin.

Enjoy,

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Tom

11 Steps to a Successful Open Source Project

For a few years I ran an open source simulator project, which was used for a number of competitions each year. This put some pretty strict deadlines on the project as not only did in need to be ready for the competitions, the participants had to have it pretty far in advance in order to adapt their code to work with the newer versions of the simulator. Here are some of the things I learnt along the way.

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“Awesome Stuff for the Mac.” Where’s the speculation?

During this years MacWorld keynote speech, Steve Jobs made the following comment:

"over the course of the next several months we're going to roll out some awesome stuff for the mac"

You can find it in the podcast version at 4:35

Am I the only one that noticed it? Where is the speculation on the rumor sites that would normally accompany a comment like this?

Here is my list of what we might get:

• In the no-brainer category:
  • OS X Leopard
  • iWork 2007
  • iLife 2007
• In the 'we can hope and pray' category:
  • Multi-Touch Tablets, MacBooks, iMacs and Displays

Is there something I've missed? Leave a comment and let the speculation begin.

What Has Apple Got in Store for Us Next?

Early yesterday morning (about 6am in Sydney) Apple unveiled their revolutionary iPhone. While most of the technology media is be focused on iPhone, I’m far more excited by the Multi-Touch technology it uses and the other types of products we can expect it to appear in. If you aren’t excited about Multi-Touch yet, you should be.

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