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Welcome to the latest issue of the Developer Shed newsletter! Here at the Shed, we're always amazed and interested to see how the spread of new technologies have unintended consequences - sometimes good, sometimes not so good. We'll leave you to judge which category this latest one, covered by eWeek, fits into. Now anybody who wants to be a talk radio star can, thanks to the Internet. All you need is a computer and a telephone, and web sites like BlogTalkRadio can help you create live, call-in shows. It's great that more people can do what used to be available to only a few, but it sounds like the kind of thing that is strongly subject to Sturgeon's Law. Check out the article and see what you think. We also have all of our usual great articles for you this week. Dev Shed readers learned about PHP destructors and increased their knowledge of Yahoo Web Services. We also covered Python operators. Visitors to ASP Free enjoyed our long-running series on how to build an online shopping web site, and also learned how to work with system processes in WSH. Dev Articles nearly burst at the seams with pieces for beginning and intermediate web designers. We showed you how to do some great things in Flash, HTML, and JavaScript. Hardware enthusiasts, meanwhile, appreciated our reviews of the Nokia N800 and the Creative Zen V. We also took a look at the advantages and disadvantages of solid state drives - very timely, considering that Apple's newest laptop offers such a drive as an option for a huge premium. On SEO Chat we took a close look at linkbait. Some in the industry think that it isn't the panacea it's sometimes thought to be. Are they right? Right or wrong, if you are going to use linkbait to attract visitors to your site, you need to put in the time to research it and make sure you're doing it right. We also covered news from Google, and how it's taking blows from its competitors lately. Finally, on Tutorialized, we highlighted some great tutorials for you to check out. If you've ever wanted to know how to make something look "vintage," create a fire effect in Photoshop, or put together a catapult game, scroll down and get clicking! As always, thanks for reading. Until next week,Developer Shed Staff |
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Understanding Destructors in PHP 5 by Alejandro Gervasio, 2008-01-16 -- Despite the scary-sounding name, destructors aren't evil. Indeed, their use is often necessary to help keep your applications running properly. This article, the first part of a five-part series, introduces you to destructors and their use with PHP 5 programs. Read the full article. Fetching Search Results as Serialized Arrays with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5 by Alejandro Gervasio, 2008-01-15 -- In this second article of the series dealing with the implementation of some of the most useful web services offered by Yahoo! with PHP 5, I’ll show you how to parse the results returned by a determined web search service using a few array PHP processing functions. Read the full article. Python Operators by James Payne, 2008-01-14 -- In the previous two articles on Python, I promised to tell you about Operators, but I lied. Instead I covered such things as conditionals, sets, lists, dictionaries, and so forth. Now, at last, I am going to cover the various operators that Python has to offer, and force you, I mean teach you, to manipulate data with them. Read the full article. Setting Permissions in Apache by O'Reilly Media, 2008-01-10 -- In this third part of a six-part series on Apache installation and configuration, you will learn how to set security-related permissions. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Apache Security, written by Ivan Ristic (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596007248). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
Back-end Management Tasks for an ASP.NET AJAX Server-Centric Based Online Shopping Website by Xianzhong Zhu, 2008-01-16 -- This is the eighth part of an eleven-part series on building an online shopping web site. In this part, we will continue to look into the backside management tasks associated with product and order adding, modifying, and deleting, as well as managing comments on the products. Read the full article. Working with System Processes in WSH by Nilpo, 2008-01-15 -- In this article, we’re going to explore the different ways of working with system processes in WSH. Behind every running program in Windows is a process. Those processes control every end-user function that the computer performs. Read the full article. ADO Queries and Working with Recordsets by James Payne, 2008-01-14 -- Back in late November of last year I wrote an article that covered ADO for the beginner. At that time I left off with ADO connections, recordsets, and how to display them. Finally returning to the topic after a spell, in this episode we will discuss queries, sorting, and a few other tricks with ADO. Read the full article. Active Directory and Computers by O'Reilly Media, 2008-01-10 -- Computers and users actually have a lot in common, at least from Active Directory's point of view. This article, the first in a four-part series, will explore how Active Directory handles computers. It is excerpted from chapter eight of the Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition, written by Robbie Allen and Laura E. Hunter (O'Reilly; ISBN: 059610202X). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
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ActionScript 101 by James Payne, 2008-01-16 -- While there were some ActionScripts in the earlier versions of Flash, the language really didn't get its start until the year 2000, when it was officially named. Heavily influenced by JavaScript, the language went from a few simple commands to an evolving powerhouse of functions. This article will explain some of those functions. Read the full article. HTML Formatting and Colors by James Payne, 2008-01-15 -- In our last tutorial we left off discussing some basic HTML formatting. In this episode we will continue our discussion of formatting and get into working with Entities. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get busy. Read the full article. JavaScript Objects: Strings by James Payne, 2008-01-14 -- In our last tutorial we covered JavaScript Errors. We learned to work with the OnError event, the Try...Catch statement, and Throw to create exceptions. In this episode we will go over JavaScript String Objects and learn to use them. Read the full article. Complex SQL Queries by O'Reilly Media, 2008-01-10 -- In this second part to a three-part series that covers the SQL query, you'll learn what factors you must take into account for complex queries. This article is excerpted from chapter four of The Art of SQL, written by Stephane Faroult and Peter Robson (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596008945). Copyright © 2007 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
Throwing a Glance at Solid State Drives by Barzan "Tony" Antal, 2008-01-16 -- With the rapid state of technological growth lately, it's important to remain vigilant in order to keep up to date on the latest releases. This article will specifically dive into the status of solid state drives and the future of data storage. Read on to find out more. Read the full article. The Creative Zen V by jkabaseball, 2008-01-15 -- Apple makes the best known MP3 music players in the world. Many people couldn’t name an MP3 player other than the iPod. Today we will take a look at the Creative Zen V. With the iPod Shuffle as the better-known player, is the Creative Zen V worth a look? Read on to find out. Read the full article. Nokia N800 by Joe Eitel, 2008-01-14 -- In 2005, Nokia released their much-anticipated 770 Internet tablet. This device ultimately failed at living up to its expectations. So, Nokia went back to the drawing board and released the follow-up to the 770 called the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. This review will go over all aspects of the N800 and will include a recommendation for consumers. Read the full article. Paper-Thin, Bendable Batteries in the Future by Joe Eitel, 2008-01-10 -- The idea of having a flexible, paper-thin battery that powers your mobile devices is not that far-fetched. As a matter of fact, this technology is currently being used in smaller applications, and newer and more powerful thin batteries are in development as we speak. Keep reading to find out more! Read the full article. |
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Building Linkbait? Do Your Homework by Terri Wells, 2008-01-16 -- So you haven’t been happy with the results of your conventional link building or link trading campaign. Or maybe your web site is very new and you want to be discovered quickly. You think linkbait will get you there the easy way. Think again. Read the full article. Google Taking Blows by Michael Lowry, 2008-01-15 -- Google is no stranger to competition. It has come up through the ranks like a young boxing phenom plowing his way through all adversaries to become champion. So needless to say, Google can not be intimidated by confrontation. Like any smart business, they capitalize on any advantage their opponents give them. This article will examine some of the most recent blows (sucker punches?) they have given and received, and how they handle the referees judging the fight. Read the full article. Is Linkbait Good or Bad? by Terri Wells, 2008-01-14 -- The term “linkbait” has been around at least since 2005. Nick Wilson is sometimes credited with coining the term. It’s a great way to lure visitors to your site, but some SEO authorities now claim that it’s not such a good idea. Who’s right? Read the full article. |
Internet Servers Doing the Buzz Shuffle by Michael Lowry, 2008-01-16 -- What do bees and disco dancing have to do with web hosting? Well, you might be surprised to find out that some of the things learned in the field of biology have applications to engineering and modern technology. Indeed, some of the lessons learned can be used to solve a number of problems that make people pull their hair out as they wait for web pages to load. Read the full article. Filter This! by Michael Lowry, 2008-01-09 -- The other day I spilled fruit punch on my shorts because I was caught off guard by yet another discriminatory action perpetrated by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). At first I decided to let it slide, but then I realized these incidents are starting to pile up. Is the Internet on the brink of becoming a privately controlled resource? How many more stains will I have to endure? Keep reading to find out. Read the full article. Popular BitTorrent Clients in Review by Barzan 'Tony' Antal, 2008-01-02 -- Who would have guessed that Bram Cohen's peer-to-peer communication protocol could ever achieve this kind of success? Even the man himself probably couldn't have forecast its popularity when he designed the BitTorrent protocol in April 2001. However, the protocol as well as the client applications started to mature from early 2004. Read the full article.
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Weird and Cool Beating Heart Grown in Lab What if we could take a heart patient's own tissue and use it to grow a replacement heart? The heart could be transplanted into the patient before the old heart failed, giving the patient a new lease on life - and best of all, since it was made with his or her own tissue, organ rejection would not be an issue. We can't do that today, but scientists reported that we're one step closer. Doris Taylor and colleagues at the University of Minnesota stripped rat hearts of their cells, leaving the protein-laden connective tissue behind. They then flooded this three-dimensional scaffold with blood vessel and heart cells from newborn rats, as well as a nutrient for these cells. The cells traveled throughout the scaffold, effectively growing a new heart. But that's not the best part. The scientists also jolted the heart to make it beat. In four days, the tissue started contracting; by the eighth day, the new heart was actually pumping. Granted, it was only two percent as efficient as an adult rat heart, but this should be seen as the first milestone in a long journey. Someday, human lives may be saved by the application of what these scientists accomplished. A Laptop Battery That Lasts All Day We'd all love a laptop battery that lasts ten times as long as current batteries, but that's impossible with current technology, right? Well, not quite. Researchers at Stanford University have figured out how to harness silicon nanowires to make lithium ion batteries hold 10 times more charge. With this discovery, that laptop battery that won't last the length of a cross-country US flight could now make it from the US to China with plenty of juice to spare. Yi Cui, the assistant professor at Stanford University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering who developed the new batteries, described them as "a revolutionary development." The new batteries gain their increased capacity from using an anode that takes advantage of silicon nanowires instead of graphite. Silicon normally expands when charging and shrinks during use, degrading performance; this is why it hasn't been used in batteries up to now. Silicon nanowires do not fracture, therefore performance is not degraded. Challenges remain when it comes to commercializing this technology, but Cui has already filed a patent and is contemplating the formation of a company or at least an agreement with a battery maker. More testing needs to be done, but Cui thinks the long-lasting battery could be on the market within "several years." NASA to Hold Moon Buggy Race Somewhat overshadowed by news of the first images from Mercury in 30 years, the fifteenth annual Great Moon Buggy Race was announced by NASA. Scheduled for April 4-5, the race has already attracted more than 40 student teams from 18 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada and India. Using buggies they have designed themselves, each team races around a track at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The course is only a half-mile long, but it is strewn with obstacles simulating the surface of the moon. The vehicles do not race against each other side-by-side; rather, they race against the clock. Moon buggies must be human-powered and carry two team members, one male and one female. In keeping with the original moon buggies, which had to be assembled on the moon, each team is expected to start with their moon buggy disassembled, and assembly time is added to each teams' fastest finish time (teams are allowed to run the course twice to get the best time) to get the total time. The three fastest finishers in the high school and college categories win prizes from the event sponsors. Additional awards go to the teams with the most unique moon buggy design and best overall design; awards will also go to the most improved team, best rookie team and most spirited team. The event is open to the public. |
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