Technology

The ASP.NET Page Life Cycle with Data Binding

To fully understand how data controls work, it’s important to know how they fit into the page life cycle. This is imporant when you run into a situation where you need to work with or extend the data binding model. Take, for instance, a situation…

The socialist state of ThoughtWorks

(Fortune) — Roy Singham wants you to know that ThoughtWorks, the Chicago-based software company he founded 15 years ago, and where he is now chairman of the board, is a growing and profitable enterprise and not a socialist collective.

Photoshop CS3, I’m Going to Love It!

A lame review from a design worker

Better object handling with PHP singletons

Recently I was researching local caching options for PHP when I came across the XCache var cache — a file-based caching interface that comes with the XCache opcode cacher (and only requires a small change in the PHP config). While looking for example code…

Patents for a Better Tomorrow: Stop-To-Type Technology

Its time has come

Bitmap.scale9Grid() doesn’t do what it says on the tin!

Having only recently got discovered actionscript controlled 9-Slice scaling ( a late starter I know!), I was then completely bemused to discover that the Bitmap class does not inherit such capabilities.

Blackberry or Sex?

By Charlie Eisenhood