http://www.webreference.com Daily news, views, and how-tos on all aspects of web design and development. Features free web-based tools, open source scripts, and in-depth tutorials on DHTML, HTML, JavaScript, 3D, Graphics, XML, and Design for webmasters. en-us Copyright (c) 2005 Jupitermedia Corp. All rights reserved 2008-02-04T20:04 2008-02-04T20:04 sclark@jupitermedia.com (Scott Clark) sclark@jupitermedia.com (Scott Clark) http://webreference.com/art/wr.gif http://www.WebReference.com http://www.webreference.com/programming/software_engineering_for_ajax/ A great advantage of using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) when building Ajax applications is leveraging advanced software engineering. This week you'll learn how to use the Java software engineering tools in GWT to build high-quality Ajax applications. By Ryan Dewsbury. 0512 http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/pragmas/index.html Pragmas in Perl are specific instructions that we can embed in Perl code, depending on our needs and preferences, that allow our scripts to be compiled and behave differently than they would otherwise. In this article, we look at how pragmas work. By Dan Ragle. 0508 http://www.webreference.com/programming/web_apps/drag_and_drop2/ Last time we looked at how to use the dnd module. This week, we look at how it's implemented. Like all GWT modules, our drag-and-drop module has an XML configuration file. It also has some Java classes and interfaces. David Geary and Rob Gordon. 0505 http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/rg10/index.html In part 4 of the series, we defined the appearance of our autocomplete control using an external cascading style sheet (CSS). This week we'll create a JavaScript file to manage the behavior of the autocomplete control in the browser. By Rob Gravelle. 0501 http://www.webreference.com/programming/web_apps/drag_and_drop/ With the advent of GWT (Google Web Toolkit), we have drag-and-drop capabilities in a Java-based Web application framework. In this solution, we implement drag and drop in its own module, allowing you to easily incorporate it into your applications. By David Geary and Rob Gordon. 0428 http://www.webreference.com/promotion/myspace/ The competition for attention on MySpace is intense. Many artists want to stand out from the crowd, but it can be difficult to break through the clutter. Enter email marketing, which gives artists the ability to send out newsletters, targeted email campaigns and more. By Robert Burko. 0423 http://www.webreference.com/programming/asp/site_appearance3/ When a page that uses a master page (i.e. a content page) is requested, ASP.NET merges the content page and master page together (assuming both have been compiled) by inserting the master page's content at the beginning of the content page's control tree. This means that the master page content is actually a control added to the page. By Randy Connolly. 0421 http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/rg9/index.html In part 3 of the series, we added the brains behind our Autocomplete text field's search functionality. Now it's time to turn our attention to the Web components. This week we'll create the CSS file, since it, along with the JavaScript file, need to be linked to the AutocompleteSearch.jsp page. By Rob Gravelle. 0416 http://www.webreference.com/programming/asp/site_appearance2/index.html This week we'll look at an example that demonstrates the dynamic selection of themes. The page contains no appearance markup, only structured content. All formatting is contained in the theme skins and CSS files. By Randy Connolly. 0414 http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/rg8 This week we'll be developing the AutocompleteServlet. The servlet acts much like an ASP, Perl or PHP script in that it's executed by the server and accepts parameters from the browser. By Rob Gravelle. 0409 http://www.webreference.com/programming/asp/site_appearance/ ASP.NET 2.0 provides a number of ways to customize the style of pages and controls in your Web application. This week we examine the various properties of Web server controls, how to use CSS with ASP.NET and how to work with themes, master pages and user controls. By Randy Connolly. 0407 http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/rg7/index.html This week we'll construct the The Fund Java class, which will act as a container for all the fund's properties. On the server, we'll store a collection of funds to be searched. Matching ones will be converted to a JSON array and returned to the browser for displaying in our Autocomplete list. By Rob Gravelle. 0403 http://www.webreference.com/programming/php/working_with_forms/ Forms are how your users talk to your scripts. To get the most out of PHP, you must master forms. While PHP makes it easy to access form data, you need to take security measures since you cannot trust the data supplied by an HTML form. By William Steinmetz with Brian Ward. 0331 http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/rg6/ In the last article, you learned how AJAX can be used to link the contents of a select field to a parent one. Now we're going to use AJAX to create an Autocomplete text field using the Eclipse Web Tools Platform with the Apache Tomcat server. 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