Web Developer Tutorial: How to Protect SWF files From a Decompiler Flash SWF files contain your important Intellectual Property, but once they are on the web, anyone can download your SWF file and decompile it with a Flash decompiler tool. This tutorial will show you how to protect your SWF files from decompilers using SWFProtection.
WordPress: A Web Developer's Tutorial At some point in every web developer's career, one sits down, breathes a heavy sigh, and gets the feeling "I've done this all before, and too many times". Wouldn't it be nice instead to let someone else do much of that work and support? Enter the WordPress CMS!
Featured Goodies
Web Development: The Need to Know Basics Many articles, books and websites explain the basics of Web development, but they require a lot of time to read (and re-read) to understand fully. This article is not going be like that--it was written to provide quick answers to the basic development questions that many beginning developers need to know.
ActionScript 3 Tutorial, Using Shared Objects to Show a Visitor's Browsing Time Flash developer Paul Flashdaweb from the FlashKit Forums wrote this ActionScript 3 tutorial which will show you how a SharedObject can be used to show the time a user has been visiting a page on your site--even after they have closed the page.
Beyond HTML
Web Developer Tutorial: Build Your Own Image Scrollbar If you have been surfing the web for more than a day you’ve certainly come across an image scrollbar. In this article we’ll walk through the JavaScript functions and HTML necessary to create an image scrollbar.
How To Build a Website: Develop a Project Outline You've been online, looked around at a few web sites, and reached the conclusion that you want a site of your own. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a project outline, use a wireframe and begin to design your website!
How To Build a Website: HTML, CSS and HTML Editors Now that you know how to define the purpose of your site, create a project outline and create a file folder structure, it's time to move on. In this tutorial, you will learn about HTML editors, HTML tags, CSS, and how to create your first web page using the infamous "Hello World" programming example.
Primers
Making a Wizard with JavaScript In this installment we’ll create a wizard for subscribing to some websites. We’ll use JavaScript to manipulate display and styles to make it slick and easy to use without having to post anything to the server until we are finished.
Checking Your Work: Validating Input -- The Cool Stuff In the first part of this series Checking Your Work: Validating Input, we built the basic scripts required to validate some of our example form elements using JavaScript. In this installment we’ll move on to the cool stuff like nested validation and making sure input from the user is the correct type and formatted properly.
Upcoming: Google Latitude API for Web Application Developers
Google will soon be releasing the Application Programming Interface (API) for its Google Latitude service. The service enables users to see their friends' locations on a map that is displayed on a web page.
Microsoft Showcases Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4
This week Microsoft showed off its Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4 capabilities at the Mix10 conference. Windows Phone 7 utilizes Silverlight technology along with the XNA gaming platform for application development.
Adobe Goes Beyond Flash, Talks About New Web Developer Technologies
Although Flash comes to mind when Adobe is mentioned, the company is far from blind when it comes to emerging web technologies. Adobe is working on tools for HTML5 and CSS3 that will bring its current developer tools up to speed.
Dot Com Celebrates 25th Birthday
On March 15, 1985, a company named Symbolics registered symbolics.com, which was the first domain name registered--and along came the first website. By the end of 1985, there were officially six websites. Fast forward 25 years and there are 86 million active websites.
Securing Web Apps Through The Software Delivery Lifecycle
If you are developing web apps, you need to build security into those applications from the beginning. This whitepaper from the Redmond Developer Network shows you how to do that during each step of the software delivery lifecycle.
When to Use a Multi-Site Architecture
If you're contemplating the creation of multiple websites for your business, you owe it to yourself to learn about the significant savings that multi-site can deliver. This whitepaper discusses the benefits of multi-site, which include cutting your development and maintenance costs drastically.
RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and the Emergence of Contextual Applications
Adobe recently released a whitepaper which discusses the future of software development and contextual applications. High user expectations have led to the creation of interactive and engaging web experiences through the use of rich internet application (RIA) development.
Are Resource Libraries an Asset to Your Website?
Many websites have resource libraries with articles covering topics relevant to their focus. Resource libraries provide more than information, however. They can also assist your site's search engine rankings, and increase the traffic to your site, which helps your site sell more products and/or services.
Introduction to Ajax and OpenAjax
This whitepaper from the OpenAjax Alliance introduces the web developer to Ajax and Open Ajax, which the the OpenAjax Alliance defines as "the collection of technologies and approaches defined by the OpenAjax Alliance to promote open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies that in turn lead to long-term customer success with Ajax."
