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My Google Chrome app book is now available!
I have recently completed a new book titled “Building Browser Apps with Google Chrome”. The book focuses on how to develop packaged apps, one of several types of applications that can be used by the Google Chrome browser. For more information, see the book announcement post, or go ahead and checkout the HTML version of…
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Sort Your Data Using Javascript
Introduction Javascript has basic sorting built into the language, but it also has the flexibility to do any kind of sorting you want. Read on and find out more about how you can customize your sorting tasks with Javascript. Basic sorting The Javascript array sort method performs an alphabetic sort of an array. Here are…
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Getting started with Javascript
When I start to learn a new language or framework, creating a small application really helps accelerate the learning process. Using the work I did for a MacTech article on test-driven development, I created a simple number guessing game as a Javascript web application (game page is here). I also used the YUI 2 YUITest…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 7
Part 7 – Conclusion This series has provided an introduction to developing Tools for the OPML Editor. However, the topics covered in this series have not even scratched the surface of the capabilities within the OPML Editor. Dave Winer has compiled a list of resources on the OPML Editor HowTo web site, but here are…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 6
Part 6 – Creating an application – Windows Updates As mentioned in the previous part of this series, some additional applications and Tool changes are required to support calling the Delicious API for Windows users. The following steps were followed on a ASUS EeePC 1000HD running Windows XP. Step 1 – cURL installation and setup…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 5
Part 5 – Creating an application In this part of this series, an OPML Editor Tool will be developed to interact with the Delicious social bookmarking service. You will need to have an active Delicious account with several entries to be able to use this application. Delicious supports an Application Program Interface (API) which allows…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 4
Part 4 – Saving data in the tool database The earlier parts of this series demonstrated how to create a Tool (mini-application) for the OPML Editor, how to create a web page display within the Tool, and how to use scripts to create content within web pages. This part of the series will show how…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 3
Part 3 – Running a script from a web page Part 2 of this series showed how to write a short script and display the results in a dialog box. This part of the series will show how to display the results in a web page in two different ways The first is through the…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 2
Part 2 – Creating web pages and scripts Web pages Another method that can be used to display a “Hello World” message is through the Tool website. Each Tool contains a table containing elements which the OPML Editor can render into a website. These elements can present information (like help pages for the Tool), but…
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 1
Part 1 – Installing the OPML Editor and creating a “Hello World” Tool To get started, download the OPML Editor from the OPML Editor website and follow the instructions in the “Downloading a fresh install” section. After following the two install steps for your computer, the OPML Editor should be up and running. As the…