Build a carousel with JavaScript

Chris Duckett has written about "Build a carousel with JavaScript" in "builder.au" on 19-Oct-2006. To quote:-

Flash can be make Web sites look pretty but for one reason or another not everyone has the player installed on the client browser. If you or your users are one of those poor unfortunates that has a 64-bit linux distro or you just hate having animations on your Web page, then you are forced to go without flash.

In this article we'll show you how to build a more usable carousel in JavaScript instead of Flash.

Associative Collections in XSLT

Edmond Woychowsky has written about "Associative Collections in XSLT" in "Builder.au" on 19-Sep-2006. To quote:-

Recently I created a solution that started with having to parse SQL "INSERT" statements which were stored in a table used for logging inserts. The table consisted of all of the information required to create a log of SQL "INSERT" statements, like user id, date and the actual SQL insert statement itself.

The biggest issue was figuring-out just how to associate a column name with a column value.

Adding AJAX to Java with DWR

DJ Walker-Morgan of ZDNet Builder UK, has written about "Adding AJAX to Java with DWR (Direct Web Remoting toolkit)" on 15 August 2006. To quote:-

Making web-based Java applications more interactive doesn't need to be difficult. The Direct Web Remoting toolkit takes much of the hassle out of AJAX

DWR stands for Direct Web Remoting. The fundamental idea behind DWR is to make Java classes which exist on the server visible to JavaScript code running in the browser. Rather than writing your own AJAX code, DWR creates, based on the required Java classes methods and fields, the JavaScript code needed to access those methods and fields.

W3C standards: The relationship between RDF and Topic Maps

Peter V. Mikhalenko (of TechRepublic) has written about the relationship between RDF and Topic Maps in CNET's Builder-AU on 22 May 2006. To quote:-

The W3C has made an attempt to establish standard guidelines for Resource Description Framework (RDF) / Topic Maps interoperability. This document analyses the development background of both standards, and provides an overview of five different relationship proposals.

Java, annotated

D.J.Walker-Morgan has written about Annotations in Java in CNet-Builder-AU on 10-May-2006. To quote:-

Annotations can eliminate boilerplate code, make source code more readable and provide additional levels of error checking. They're used everywhere from EJB3 to JUnit4. Here's how you go about using them.

Java 5 introduced Annotations to Java and their use has rapidly become de jour for modern Java development.

IBM wikis hard on Java's heels

Barbara Gengler has written about "QEDwiki" in Australian IT on MAY 16, 2006. To quote:-

QEDWiki, which stands for quick and easily done wiki, targets people who want to make web applications without help from professional programmers.

Specifically, QEDWiki is an integrated development environment and framework set up to provide non-technical end users with a single web application framework for hosting and developing a broad range of web applications.

IBM spearheads AJAX tools at Eclipse

Martin LaMonica has written about "AJAX tools in Eclipse" in C!Net New.com on February 1, 2006,. To quote:-

IBM and several other software companies have proposed an open-source project to simplify development tools for AJAX-style Web development.

Called Open Ajax, the proposed open-source project will be based on IBM-donated code designed to let software developers use the Eclipse development tool to write Web applications using AJAX.