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Today I would like to share an online tool which some of you might find interesting, at least as an clever example on what we could do with CSS3 and HTML5.
But before showing you this "wonder", I would like to spend a few general words and possibly gather your ideas on the matter.
I've recently read that in 2012 there will be an incredible expansion of HTML5 webapp. The use of the not-so-new HTML version will help developers in building specific applications that will work with recent browsers. For what I have seen lately, the most of those new webapp are basically drawing tools. Canvas, trasformation and animation are wisely used in order to allow free hand drawing using only the browser.
In a perfect future, we might end up without desktop applications, while the web will be the place where everyone can find the right tool, when needed.
It is an old idea that I've partially already encountered in a book by Jeremy Rifkin, in the early 2000. People will eventually use software on-demand and they will just pay for the time they use it. That could be the future... the not so far future, as I can see. Following the reasoning, we might just need a pc with a minimum set of system tools, while when we will need to write a document, prepare a spreadsheet or retouch a photo, we will just open the browser and go to the appropriate web site where the application will be always updated and ready to be used. With that in mind, it won't matter which will be our hardware: it could a smartphone, a tablet or a pc. At the same time, it won't matter where we will be - we will just need a data connection.
Web development, web design and programming.
Showing posts with label web application. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web application. Show all posts
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Monday, 30 August 2010
How to execute Stored Procedures from ASP
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The power of Stored Procedures in SQL Server is quite useful when developing web applications. It is sure that using such power in your code is very important in order to be sure the queries are executed quickly and efficiently. But, how do you execute those queries from asp? Actually it is very easy as soon as you understand the logic behind it. I've seen many web site and blogs explaining that, however it seems that a simple and straight way of showing the method is missing. Here we go.
The power of Stored Procedures in SQL Server is quite useful when developing web applications. It is sure that using such power in your code is very important in order to be sure the queries are executed quickly and efficiently. But, how do you execute those queries from asp? Actually it is very easy as soon as you understand the logic behind it. I've seen many web site and blogs explaining that, however it seems that a simple and straight way of showing the method is missing. Here we go.
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Web application’s menus
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When developing a web application, one of the things I am almost always dissatisfied with is menus. Thinking back to my first web app, I now realise how much I pondered and rethought about the user interface and about the way all the single functions are logically made available to the user. That is usually done through an intelligent menu.
When developing a web application, one of the things I am almost always dissatisfied with is menus. Thinking back to my first web app, I now realise how much I pondered and rethought about the user interface and about the way all the single functions are logically made available to the user. That is usually done through an intelligent menu.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Add a Progress Indicator to your asp page
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Sometimes when developing a web application, you need to query a large amount of data, manipulate it and present it in a beautiful and readable way. That kind of operations – given that you created a resource optimized sql query – might take time and the user, waiting for data to appear on the screen, might get nervous not knowing what is really happening to the submitted request. So what? There are risks involved in that waiting: the user might hit other buttons sending multiple requests to the server. Again the user might submit data update more than one time. Or, simply, the user might think that your application is lousy and really slow (while you know that the user just submitted a very complicated query and you can’t do much about it in terms of speeding up the process!).
Sometimes when developing a web application, you need to query a large amount of data, manipulate it and present it in a beautiful and readable way. That kind of operations – given that you created a resource optimized sql query – might take time and the user, waiting for data to appear on the screen, might get nervous not knowing what is really happening to the submitted request. So what? There are risks involved in that waiting: the user might hit other buttons sending multiple requests to the server. Again the user might submit data update more than one time. Or, simply, the user might think that your application is lousy and really slow (while you know that the user just submitted a very complicated query and you can’t do much about it in terms of speeding up the process!).
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Help for web applications (part 2: tools)
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Help for web applications (part 1: general)
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INTRODUCTION
When was the last time you thought it was necessary to create an help button for your web application?
I do it everytime that I publish a beta release. I've always thought and I strongly believe that a good web app needs a good online help. It doesn't matter which type you use (an html online help, or a chm, txt, pdf file) as long as you make it available somewhere in your application.
I strongly believe in that for different reasons.
INTRODUCTION
When was the last time you thought it was necessary to create an help button for your web application?
I do it everytime that I publish a beta release. I've always thought and I strongly believe that a good web app needs a good online help. It doesn't matter which type you use (an html online help, or a chm, txt, pdf file) as long as you make it available somewhere in your application.
I strongly believe in that for different reasons.
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