say no to duplicating server side and client side validation

I don’t know why this never occurred to me until I read Hal Helm’s post (and no one told me about it)..  This an email that I just sent around to the team (hopefully someone will try it out).
Usually when we create a form we need to do:

Client side validation
Server side validation

This is an [...]

Ajax

Thought in progress..Been playing with xajax for doing some simple input validations. I still notn get “it” yet, it seems to me that Ajax doesn’t really provide me with functionalities that aren crucial for web apps, sure you can do crazy things like drag and drop elements, rollovers,n sorting tables without reloading the page.. but so what? i [...]

Avoiding the inlines

Yes, inline CSS and Javascript are bad and not elegant, but it’s quicker to build, ie no need to switch between the html and css files, furthermore for a site that the layout is somewhat not uniform, why would you want to declare a style in css file if the style is only applicable for [...]

Javascript hacks

I’m working on The Human Network project right now. The page was designed by a graphic design company, S3Group is contracted to implement the design to a working website. The design looks good, but it’s a nightmare to implement, lots of rounded edges which mean lots of tweaking and adjusting. One problem that gives me [...]