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A simple solution to the “other” problem with select boxes

Blogs - 9 days ago

Jeffrey Olchovy has posted a simple tutorial on using jQuery to solve a “select-to-input toggle” that shows and hides a text field when you select “Other”. It overloads the same form name, so the server side gets just one value, and doesn’t know or care if it was in th read more

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Nice new Dojo aggregate effects

Blogs - 9 days ago

Dojo has some nice new compound effects in the works. Some of the new effects include block fades, disintergrate, explode, shear, and pinwheel.
Each effect can be tweaked with config such as:

The number of rows and columns in which to split the element
The distance the pieces t read more

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Free Line Rental Deals

Blogs - 9 days ago

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Sun Nabs OEM for its VirtualBox Desktop Virtualization

News - 11 days ago

Sun has got multi-year OEM deals with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech to move its bought-in cross-platform xVM VirtualBox widgetry. The stuff is free from Sun and runs multiple operating systems on the same desktop at the same time, which means OEMs can use virtual machines as self- read more

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Cloud Computing Casts Shadow on Walled Gardens

News - 11 days ago

As a technology provider that helps application companies embrace cloud computing by virtualizing the applications to run on any cloud, I was a bit disappointed with Google's AppEngine announcement. It appears that Google is embracing the 'walled garden' approach of SalesForce.com and Microsoft ins read more

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Rationale for a SOA Shared Service Center

News - 11 days ago

Over the past several years, there has been much fanfare regarding the promise of SOA. However, as with any IT-related solution, it is not a magic bullet or cure-all for IT integration. In fact, SOA does not solve business process problems, but rather identifies both the good and bad organizational read more

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Hardware and OS Virtualization: Multiple Solutions May Be the Answer

News - 11 days ago

Finding the appropriate virtualization technology to fit an organization's requirements depends on the needs of the environment, combined with the feature sets of each virtualization architecture. Oftentimes, organizations find that a single approach doesn't complete the picture and multiple virtua read more

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AppJet improves, and teaches you along the way

Blogs - 12 days ago

AppJet, the server side JavaScript Y Combinator startup, has been improving all the time, including these new updates which allow for better database work:
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Tealium Announces Tealium TrackEvent for RIA

News - 12 days ago

Tealium Incorporated, a provider of high-end, results-oriented Web analytics consulting, announced the availability of Tealium TrackEvent, a solution designed to decouple development from web analytics implementation of rich internet applications (RIA) such as Flash, Flex and Ajax sites. Tealium Tr read more

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Getting your Groovy on with Grails and Cloud Computing

News - 12 days ago

You need to think of cloud computing in three different layers - infrastructure, infrastructure management & platform as a service. At the infrastructure level you have the basis for cloud computing. This is where you'll find virtual servers or services like Amazon.com EC2. A level above the infr read more

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