Matt Snider reveals another useful set of JavaScript functions targeting Date manipulation. He follows the same approach to extend String functions. First, he adds additional functionality to JS native Date object (constants and static methods): YAHOO.lang.augmentObject(Date, { /** * Date constant for full month names * * @property MONTHS * @type string */ MONTHS: ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'], /** * Returns a date object from the string; expects ...

Offline access to Google Docs is being tested as this screenshot shown: For sure, you'll need Google Gears -- a browser extension for Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+ to facilitate offline functionality in web applications through JavaScript APIs -- installed. Enabling offline access and confirming the security warning for Google Gears, your documents will start to synchronize -- process looks the ...

You will not see "Hello World" example in David Geary's book, Google Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff, because it's not a book for newbies. Instead, the authors tell very clearly in the opening of the book that their target is to put GWT developers into the fast lane with practical, non-contrived solutions -- not to help ...

David Sarno of The Los Angeles Times tells an embarrassing experience when he sent an image of two half-dressed women kissing while perched atop a pair of beer kegs -- to seventy-six of his friends with caption read: "COLLEGE: The only place where . . . like this happens!" via one of most popular Facebook apps, Super Wall. On the other ...

Rails 2.0 reveals many changes and improvements, but the biggest change involves getting closer to the full web-orientation of REST and HTTP. With a few lines of codes now you can easily create open web applications based on modern web service. Creating Rails application This example is a deadly-simple bookstore CMS. All you can do are to get book list, add or ...

The Ext team has to announced the release of version 2.0.1 of Ext JS. This is a maintenance release that fixes several issues with the 2.0 release. Here are some notable issues that have been addressed: Fixed various overflow/scroll issues related to form fields and grid Workaround included for the Firefox 2.0/Mac overflow:auto invisible scrollbar bug Fixed several issues related to destroying form ...

Web 2.0 is not big news today and still there is a huge amount of disagreement about what it means. I think this slideshow is one of the best "presentations by example" of web 2.0 concepts. | View | Upload your own "Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of ...

Didier Girard, CTO of SFEIR a consulting company based in Paris which has been developing a number of GWT applications, gave a talk to InfoQ on goals, benefits of GWT and how it is different from Microsoft Volta. Some important points he highlighted about GWT are: GWT is a technology which enables the development of Rich Internet ...

Hosam Kamel has a nice summary of 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS. You can find there a variety of solutions for integrating tooltip to your website -- some are quite lightweight, others may require a specific Ajax framework like Prototype, JQuery, Mootools or YUI. The last JavaScript tooltip tool I used was the one Ext framework provides. Yet, ...