“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow

dmsAutoComplete v1.1

• August 9, 2006

• ajax, Javascript, PHP, Web 2.0, XML

Publiquei hoje a atualização do meu script de auto-complete (google suggest) compatível com IE e FireFox e baseado em PHP/AJAX.

Depois de publicar a primeria versão do script e com a ajuda de alguns usuários que fizeram testes e utilizaram o script, encontrei algusn errinhos simples nele. Portanto sentei estes dias para achar algumas soluções e agora estou publicando a versão 1.1. Confira algumas das mudanças a seguir neste post.

AJAX: What is it?

• October 12, 2006

• ajax, Javascript, Web 2.0, XML

Author’s note: This article was first published in my AJAX Column (AjaxOnline.com.br ) in Portuguese where my intended audience is a group of beginners learning about the AJAX initiative. Since it turned out to be a really interesting article I decided to translate it and share it with a wider audience.

I wondered where I should begin explaining AJAX and finally decided I should begin explaining what’s behind it and how it came around, so everyone knows where we are coming from.

Ajax, web 2.0, RSS, if you’ve never heard any of these terms than something is wrong, you are either way behind in web technologies or not serious enough about web development. The concept of Web 2.0 is what we may call the “father” of the latest trends in web applications, where various technologies are used to improve the user’s experience, but what is the concept?

Your code sucks, let's fix it

• November 2, 2012

Performance and testing are just one aspect of code, to really be successful your code needs to be readable, maintainable and generally easier to comprehend and work with.