Community MX Web Service Example 1

Have a Safe and Happy 4th of July!

Everyone at Community MX wishes to thank the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, and remember those who have lost their lives defending liberty.

To allow all of our partners to enjoy the long weekend with their families, CMX will not be releasing content on July 3rd and 4th. We will be back on Wednesday, July 5th, with two brand new pieces of content.

Enjoy your weekend!

Have a Safe and Happy 4th of July!

Everyone at Community MX wishes to thank the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, and remember those who have lost their lives defending liberty.

To allow all of our partners to enjoy the long weekend with their families, CMX will not be releasing content on July 3rd and 4th. We will be back on Wednesday, July 5th, with two brand new pieces of content.

Enjoy your weekend!

Have a Safe and Happy 4th of July!

Everyone at Community MX wishes to thank the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, and remember those who have lost their lives defending liberty.

So that the Community MX partners may spend this holiday weekend with their friends and family, we will not be releasing any new content Good Friday. We'll be back on Monday the 24th with two brand new pieces of content. Enjoy the weekend!

Community MX wishes to thank the brave men and women of the Armed Forces, and remember those who have lost their lives defending liberty.

Have a safe and happy Memorial Day!

Bayesian email filters take advantage of Bayes' theorem. Bayes' theorem, in the context of spam, says that the probability that an email is spam, given that it has certain words in it, is equal to the probability of finding those certain words in spam email, times the probability that any email is spam, divided by the probability of finding those words in any email

The interesting thing about this method of classification is that it learns over time. The more you train it in how to differentiate spam from "ham", the better it gets at doing its job. The very idea that an application can take a look at an arbitrary piece of data like an email, and know what to do with it intrigues me.

By writing applications that learn over time and make decisions based on context, the art of application development is taken to the proverbial next level. The purpose of this article is to abstract the messy details of the implementation and give you cold hard code that you can implement in your own projects.

Code is presented in C#

• Notepad/Command Line compiler
• #Develop
• Visual Studio .NET

Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to create .dll's to encapsulate and modularize your code ... not to mention that you will be a hop and a skip away from writing desktop applications.

• Podcasting 101 - Part 1 - Get the 411 on Podcasting
• Serializing and Deserializing XML with .NET - Learn advanced tricks on working XML.
• Load Balancing - The ASP.NET Way - Share bandwidth with other sites.
• Demystifying .NET Compilers - Learn how to compile .NET code.

Learn how to protect passwords stored in your database from prying eyes by hashing them using the Cryptographic tools in the .NET framework

Learn about hashing algorithms such as

• MD5
• and SHA1

Code is presented in C# and VB.NET

1. Output an image using an HttpHandler
2. Run two different pieces of code in parallel using Asynchronous Delegates.

Code is presented in C# and you do not need a compiler to use the code in the article download.

1. Have less bugs since you only have to write the code once.
2. Provide your users with more complex functionality.
3. Access resources otherwise unavailable to your Javascript code

This article will show one such example of code-reuse. We will build a front-end to a fictional Paid Time Off (PTO) system. This system will have server-side code that takes two dates and figures out how many work hours are between the two dates -- taking into account holidays and weekends. We will then incorporate this into a client-side "hours preview" function that allows the employee to see how many work hours their request will span.

ASP.NET code will be written in C# and you will not need a compiler to run the samples.

Related Articles:

• Intro to AJAX.NET
• Custom Objects with AJAX.NET

• Pre-requisites for using the Google API
• Preparing and compiling the web service for use in your application
• Invoking the web service
• Listing the results

Learn to:

• Write text files
• Read text files
• Fortify your file I/O code with exception handling

• Expression Web - web authoring design tool
• Expression Blend - user interface design tool that can incorporate multiple media types (vector and pixel art, video, audio, etc.)
• Expression Design - illustration and graphic design tool
• Expression Media - asset management tool, visually catalogues and organizes dozens of different media formats, based on the iView MediaPro product acquired by Microsoft in June, 2006.

This article reviews Expression Web - the web authoring tool included in Expression Studio.

• Creating a Simple Blog: Part 1 22-Mar-04
• Creating a Simple Blog: Part 2 30-Mar-04
• Creating a Simple Blog: Part 3 14-Apr-04
• Creating a Simple Blog: Part 4 25-May-04
• Creating a Simple Blog: Part 5 26-Apr-05

• Adding features to your catalog (e.g., displaying one or more product images and using a paged catalog),
• Taking advantage of other PayPal features (e.g., Instant Payment Notification and subscription services), and
• Building your own shopping cart instead of relying on PayPal's cart.

1. You've got to use CVS which, while it works, I can't say it's the most userfriendly product on the market.
2. Sourceforge has to review and approve your project ... so they might just say no.

With the Workspaces, a few short clicks and you've got yourself a workspace!

• web developers and designers
• audio, video, and animation developers
• web masters
• project managers
• usability specialists
• GUI (interface) designers
• government contractors
• government contracting officers, procurement specialists, and FAR specialists

Topics covered in this article:

• Web standards, regulations, and entities: what's what and who's who.
• When must you adhere to the standards
• And when it's "smart" to meet the standards
• WCAG guidelines and checkpoints
• Comparison of WCAG guidelines and US Federal 508-accessibility requirements
• Resources: Catalog of CMX articles and tutorials on building accessibility into your websites
• Resources: Links to US Federal, local, state websites on accessibility
• Resources: Links to international websites on accessibility

• Using Masks in Fireworks MX by Jim Babbage
• Do You Want To Do That With CSS? — Centering a Wrapper by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
• Flowing and Positioning: Two Page Models by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
• Float The Theory by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
• CSS An Introduction Part Two: Background Images by Adrian Senior
• Recreating Macromedia's Layout by Zoe Gillenwater
• Styling CSS Buttons (Part 2) by Stephanie Sullivan
• Styling Forms: Fieldset and Legend by Stephanie Sullivan
• Using Classes and IDs Effectively by Zoe Gillenwater
• Do You Want To Do That With CSS? — Align Elements Left and Right by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin

Each bundled tutorial explains how to complete the tasks that were undertaken to create the layout. Those techniques that are not covered in the bundle are explained here, providing you with not only a robust template, but a learning tool into the web design process as well.

If you'd like a more detailed look at the Venice Jumpstart, as well as seeing a modified Venice design, check out Sheri German's CMX JumpStart Venice: An Introduction.

I admit it: this JumpStart city necessitated that I do a little geography lesson. Adrian Senior, creator of the latest CMX JumpStart Playa Blanca gave me clues to googling for Playa Blanca information in the introduction to his article:

While not exactly a city, Playa Blanca is a beautiful town that can be found on the southern tip of Lanzarote. Lanzarote is one of a group of small volcanic islands that despite sitting off the African coast come under Spanish sovereignty.

All right! A beautiful beach resort that brought me back to my summer trip in Hawaii. Now on to the latest JumpStart....Playa Blanca is a centered, two-column, fixed-width layout with header and footer, but it is a more complex variation of that common layout type. It uses a series of nested divs that create the illusion of the secondary navigation effect that bleeds the appropriate button into the related content region. Of course Playa Blanca meets the W3C standards for CSS and XHTML, as well as the WAI accessibility requirements.

• what elements Dreamweaver provides with accessibility prompts
• how to set your preferences so that it will prompt you about these elements every time
• what each prompt looks like and what accessibility changes it produces in your markup

We won't be focusing on the benefits and guidelines for each of these accessibility enhancements, but rather on how Dreamweaver helps facilitate them. Because of this, this tutorial is best suited for those already familiar with accessibility requirements and how to meet them. References to other articles providing this background information are supplied throughout the article, if you need to brush up in any of the areas covered.