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November 20th, 2009 by Grace
What you see above is an example of animated text.
It is one of the effects that can be achieved by using DHTML scripts on a script. There are also other effects that DHTML can achieve. One is enabling online forms on websites that can instantly respond to data input by user and then process immediately afterwards. Another is it can hide content for a given time. This is used in forum posts and blogs. It can also embed a ticker so that it can automatically refresh contents and other data.
October 20th, 2009 by Grace
The Web Services platform represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies like remote procedure calls (RPC), ORPC (DCOM, Corba, Java RMI), messaging (MSMQ, MQSeries), and even modern Web applications (like Google.com). Because RPC was so difficult, developers layered object facades over the RPC mechanism to hide complexity.
This led to the many flavors of object-oriented remote procedure calls (ORPC). Of course, not all application communication can be modeled with RPC, so other messaging paradigms (like those provided by MSMQ) were necessary. Then, over the years, as developers struggled with interoperability between the various ORPC and messaging systems, they turned to the evolving Web as a potential solution for these challenges.
September 25th, 2009 by Grace
A WSDL document defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. In WSDL, the abstract definition of endpoints and messages is separated from their concrete network deployment or data format bindings. This allows the reuse of abstract definitions: messages, which are abstract descriptions of the data being exchanged, and port types which are abstract collections of operations.
The concrete protocol and data format specifications for a particular port type constitutes a reusable binding. A port is defined by associating a network address with a reusable binding, and a collection of ports define a service. In addition, WSDL defines a common binding mechanism. This is used to attach a specific protocol or data format or structure to an abstract message, operation, or endpoint. It allows the reuse of abstract definitions.
August 17th, 2009 by Yalung
As far as offering services for online users, expect mobile applications and programs to grow in the coming years as mobile computing and access have evidently become a notable uprising thanks to the latest gadgets that allow people to access the web anywhere with their gadgets.
With that in mind, service providers who make a living on the web are sure to grab this opportunity and make studies on what people would really look for. Aside from the usual information they need, emails, social communities and podcasts are surely among the top preferences we know of today.
July 21st, 2009 by Yalung
When it comes to paying off your bills and monthly expenses, online banking has certainly made life easier. Most banks today have embraced the gifts of technology and we can see that with online access normally on their websites.
So when you want to make money transfers and bills payments in a hurry, you don’t have to go out and get to the nearest bank to do so. Simply register with your bank and do all your transactions online. It is surely lesser of a problem especially when you want to beat deadline of payments today.
June 16th, 2009 by Grace
One of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’
May 16th, 2009 by Grace
So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!’
April 16th, 2009 by Grace
The many security breaches at the popular micro-blogging site has again been seen as one of the worst performing, internet-based companies the world over in terms of security with thousands of people affected by many security holes and breaches in the past few months. This type of negative publicity is considered by the micro-blogging site as publicity and even with wide gaping holes in their API, they continue to grow by leaps and bounds each and every day as if people aren’t listening. One new problem they are facing is the set coming of the Twitpocalypse or the meeting of a pre-set condition tbat would bring an unimaginable death to the whole system, crashing or totally ceasing to function. This current problem is apparently due to a pre-set binary number that goes back to the days when the base-system of the social networking site was under development. Continue reading ‘Twitter – In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons’
March 16th, 2009 by Grace
People and businesses are still not aware that the naming conventions that have been used for so long on the internet are to freed up, liberalized forever and taken out of the hands of any one body the world over. These naming conventions used to be developed and designated by the ICANN and other internet management groups yet moves to take this out of the control of any group or body has resulted in the planned de-regulation of naming conventions. Google can now have specific marketing websites such as “search.Google” or say “Images.Google”. This move would give businesses more room to expand on their use of the internet, say a University having a web site for students named “Students.University”. Continue reading ‘Web Domain Liberalization – Not Many Know’
February 19th, 2009 by rain09angel
Pictures speak a thousand words, they say. Especially in this age where more and more people are taking pictures and sharing them online, it’s only normal that people will want to spice their pictures up.
Of course, some will prefer using professional editing tool, not everyone like to use such complicated software. The good news is that there is an online solution that lets you add basic effects and designs to your photos – Picnik.
Picnik is completely free, and does not require you to download any software for you to to be able to use it. Simply upload your pictures, and apply the corresponding effects or designs you want. What’s more, with Picnik’s integration into sites like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, its easier to share your edited pictures with everyone.
