- Introduction to Voice XML Part 3: Voice XML Grammars
- Aug 10, 2007
- Improve the quality of the voice interface by understanding the rules of voice grammars.
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- Introduction to VoiceXML Part 2: Working with Forms
- Aug 3, 2007
- Create a login page and data capture page for a Baseball Facts Hotline.
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- An Introduction to VoiceXML
- Jul 27, 2007
- If you've ordered a pizza lately, you've used VoiceXML. Learn how it works.
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- How to Read and Write RSS Feeds
- Jun 29, 2007
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- How to Host a Virtual Meeting
- Jun 29, 2007
- Virtual meetings aren't like face-to-face meetings; learn to do virtual well.
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- Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: Programming with Features and Solutions
- Jun 15, 2007
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- Getting Started with Subversion on Windows
- May 25, 2007
- Stephen Morris shows you Windows users how you can easily benefit from all the advantages of Subversion without needing complicated Unix emulation tools.
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- Reading and Writing RSS Feeds
- May 14, 2007
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- Programming with Features and Solutions
- May 7, 2007
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- Joining the YouTube Community—And Creating Your Own Channel
- May 4, 2007
- As the summer heats up and the TV season winds down, you can get your video fix on the popular video-sharing site YouTube. In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to work with channels, groups, friends, and contacts as well as chat with other users via streams.
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- Joining the YouTube Community—And Creating Your Own Channel
- Apr 16, 2007
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- Creating Smart Forms with AJAX
- Dec 29, 2006
- Web forms are very important pieces of an application. They're used for registration, logging in, or even payment for services. Kris Hadlock explains the importance of creating "smart" forms and how to use AJAX to improve the forms in your applications.
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- Optimized Presentation of XML Content
- Dec 15, 2006
- Ivan Pepelnjak shows how to optimize the process of converting XML back-end data stored on a web server into HTML markup displayed in a web browser.
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- Reap the Benefits of Web Caching, Part 2: Reduce the Download Time
- Nov 17, 2006
- Now that you've mastered the basics of web caching (setting the content expiration date), it's time to deploy more caching mechanisms to reduce the download time. In part 2 of his series, Ivan Pepelnjak explains how to get the most out of the HTTP caching architecture when using dynamic web pages.
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- Getting Started with AJAX and the XMLHttpRequest Object
- Nov 3, 2006
- This chapter introduces you to the XMLHttpRequest object, showing you how to work around its implementation differences between browsers. Also learn how to make some actual page requests, both in a synchronous fashion and in an asynchronous fashion. This chapter finishes with some various fallback approaches that can be used if a browser doesn't support XMLHttpRequest, including how to use IFrames and cookies as your communication channel.
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- Reap the Benefits of Web Caching, Part 1: Explicit Content Expiration
- Oct 27, 2006
- In this three-part series, Ivan Pepelnjak describes how you can benefit from the web caching architecture to increase the speed of your ASP or PHP applications while reducing the load on your web server. Part 1 shows you how to use explicit content expiration.
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- RSS Aggregation with PHP and AJAX
- Oct 20, 2006
- An RSS aggregator is the perfect application to build with a standard AJAX engine, but cross-domain AJAX requests to RSS feeds are not possible. In this article, Kris Hadlock shows how to leverage a simple PHP function to bridge the gap between the AJAX engine and RSS content.
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- Podcast Pigeonholes: Genres and What Makes Them Work
- Sep 8, 2006
- Mur Lafferty and Rob Walch list the most popular categories for podcasts along with some examples of successful podcasts in each, things to think about in each genre, and what makes these particular genres work.
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- Using Ebay Auction Listing Services and Software
- Sep 8, 2006
- eBay's default sell your item form is fairly customizable, but should you instead use a third-party listing service or program? Michael Miller explores your options in this sample chapter.
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- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 7: Ensure XML Security
- Aug 25, 2006
- We’ve come a long way since the beginning of our journey toward XML mastery. In the last article of his series, Frank Coyle examines XML-related security issues. We begin by looking at the family of XML security standards and then move on to the threat of black-hat attacks and what you can do to safeguard your XML-based applications.
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