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Prototype Javascript optimization to get best performance

Published by chris on May 22, 2008 in Ajax, Framework, JavaScript and Quick Tip. 0 Comments

Although Prototype comes with very convenient and short cut methods to let you create ajax applications and other JavaScript that manipulates well of the DOM structure, but there will be some significant degradation in performance in some of these methods.

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PHP + Rsync + MySQL – building your own data/file remote syncing app

Published by chris on May 21, 2008 in PHP, Quick Tip and Security. 0 Comments

This is to show you how you can build a little rsync app in PHP that is to be run by a Linux/Unix cron job that syncs files on your data or web server to a remote server. PHP is allowed to execute the Unix/Linux system commands such as “rsync” and it gives you the easiness of accessing database such as MySQL.

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Canvas2Image – converts what you draw on WHATWG canvas to downloadable images on the fly

Published by chris on April 9, 2008 in JavaScript and Quick Tip. 0 Comments

Here comes a small JavaScript library, Canvas2Image that you could include on your web page, and it allows those lines and boxes that you draw on a WHATWG canvas (made using new HTML <canvas></canvas> tag pair) to be converted into images on the fly for download.

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SQL command to show code of stored procedure in Oracle

Published by chris on April 8, 2008 in Oracle and Quick Tip. 0 Comments

If you ain’t have a good Oracle tool, such as Toad, and you wish to view or print a stored procedure in the Oracle database, you can check the all_source table.

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AjaxSwing 2.0 – Swing front end for Ajax apps

Published by chris on January 9, 2008 in Ajax, Framework and Quick Tip. 0 Comments

A new version of webcream, now has been renamed and launched as AjaxSwing 2.0. It’s a framework that does communication with web server purely using asynchronous JavaScript and uses partial page update to refresh web browser.

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Google Gears will include Image manipulation API

Published by chris on January 9, 2008 in API, Google Gears, JavaScript and Quick Tip. 0 Comments

Google Gears will have a set of API for manipulating images. Such as cropping, resizing and composing images etc on the client-side using JavaScript.

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Anvil Framework for developing GUI-based Ruby apps

Published by chris on January 9, 2008 in Framework, Quick Tip and Ruby. 0 Comments

Anvil, a ruby framework that uses GUI toolkit for building GUI Ruby apps. Installation instruction as follows:

Installation

$ sudo gem install anvil

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