Book Review: JavaScript Step by Step

JavaScript Step by Step by Steve Suehring is a good "plain-English" book for beginners. Although it lacks both breadth & depth, it covers topics that are relevant to current client side Web development. Out of the 19 chapters, 3 are dedicated to AJAX. The author's explanation of HTTP headers &...

Read More

IE8 News

The IE Team has been conducting live chats every month since the first IE 8 Beta was released. As per news on the IE Blog, there will be one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009 and then a final release. Here is a compilation of some of the answers from the transcripts of the...

Read More

Get Google Search results by SMS, talking to iPhone

Google has a cool new feature for India - Google SMS. You can send a search query by SMS & get back results by SMS without paying any premium charges. Considering that a majority of Indian mobile users don't have handsets that support Internet browsing, this should go well with tech savvy folks...

Read More

Tweaking Firefox configuration settings

In the past I've come across two great links on tweaking Firefox configuration settings, that I had to refer to yesterday again. The first one is about how to do automatic Windows Authentication with Firefox. If you have been trying out some local website that requires Windows Authentication in...

Read More

Book Review - I. M. Wright's Hard Code

"I'm not opinionated, I'm always right" - spotted on a T-ShirtThe book "I. M. Wright's Hard Code" is a collection of 49 opinion columns from among the many originally written "for Microsoft software developers and their managers, though they were drawn from my (Eric's) 28 years of experience in the...

Read More

Google SEO resources

If you are keen about optimizing your website for search engines, Google has several resources - Webmaster Tools, Webmaster Help group, Webmaster Central Blog.Ocassionally they also conduct free Chat sessions where Googlers share tips & tricks and also answer questions. Here is a sampler -Suppose...

Read More

Silverlight 2 FAQ

Some answers from the Silverlight 2 FAQ that I found insightful -What is in Silverlight 1 that is not in Silverlight 2?Nothing. Silverlight 2 is a full superset of Silverlight 1.0. It is 100% compatible with Silverlight 1.0 applications and provides more powerful features and functionality. Silverlight...

Read More

My favorite Foxit Reader keyboard shortcuts

Foxit Reader is a free, lean (just 2.55 MB) PDF reader that I have been using for more than a couple of years. Although Adobe started it all, I find it's Adobe Reader unwieldy. Being lazy I generally prefer keyboard shortcuts instead of accessing things with the mouse although it takes a little effort...

Read More

Dreamspark in India

For students aspiring for a career in the software industry or those who are passionate about building software, this should be great news. Microsoft is giving away the latest developer and designer tools that normally cost hundreds of dollars at no charge to verified students through its DreamSpark...

Read More

IE Special issue of Code Magazine

IE 8 is the most standards compliant and feature-packed version of IE that is currently in Beta. If you are a web developer, you owe it to yourself to know how the changes will impact what you are currently building. Getting conversant with the new version can also help you plan for your future releases.To...

Read More

Free tools to generate screenshots

If you are not satisfied with the kind of screenshots you can generate with the PrintScreen button & MS Paint, you should evaluate these free tools that offer you a lot more options -Cropper is a lightweight screen capture utility written in C# with a lot of nifty features. It is available from...

Read More

IE Developer Tools Tips & Tricks - #2: Script Console

One of my favorite features in Firefox is the Error Console in the Tools menu. It's a Developer feature inherited from Netscape that has been enhanced over the years. Whenever a page has a Javascript error, the precise error message with line number in the source code shows up in the Error Console....

Read More