I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use
Google Maps. It's a great service and I was really impressed by the
responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag
and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded the arrival of
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), which I am sure will revitalize Web
development in the days to come.
What makes the service even better is the availability of the Google Maps API
(Application Programming Interface) as a free Beta service. The API allows
developers to embed Google Maps in their custom applications. It also allows
them to overlay information on the map and customize the map to their needs.
As I write this article there are quite a few sites that utilize Google ... (more)
Ever since the advent of the Internet, Web applications have lagged behind
desktop applications in terms of interactivity and responsiveness. One of the
biggest drawbacks in the conventional Web model has been the cycle of
inactivity between the user request and the server response. Reducing this
period of inactivity has been the point of focus for any developer who wants
to improve the ... (more)
Use of XML has become more and more popular over the past few years. Security
is a big concern since the content of an XML file is in plain text and the
information is in a human-readable form. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
has developed standards to meet the security requirements of an XML file
conforming to common XML paradigms. In this article I will show you how to
implement pu... (more)
XAML, pronounced "zammel," stands for Extensible Application Markup Language,
which made its first appearance during PDC 2003, when Microsoft unveiled its
next version of Windows, known as Longhorn. XAML is a part of the new Windows
API, codenamed Avalon, which in turn is part of Longhorn. Avalon presents a
major jump in the user interface capabilities of Windows and promises ease of
use... (more)
The introduction of ASP.NET in 2002 signified a big change in Microsoft
server-side technologies for building Web sites. It represented a shift from
the interpreted Active Server pages (ASP) to compiled ASP.NET pages. The
compiled ASP.NET Web applications were much faster than the interpreted ASP
applications and presented the developer with a variety of advantages, one of
them being dyn... (more)
Jeevan Murkoth is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) in .NET (Early Achiever) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) in .NET. He currently consults for Tennessee Valley Authority and lives in Chattanooga, TN. He has an MS in Management Information Systems from Texas Tech University.
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