In the future, hopefully every programmer will be relieved from the horrible pain of dealing with HTML, browser compatibility issues, CSS quirks and the same low-level stuff that used to be common before PL/SQL was replaced by ORMs.

One annoying thing in Firefox 3.5 is the 'missing-close-button' on the single tab. By default. FF3.5 doesn't allow you to close a tab, when there is only one tab is there in the FF window. This article explains how to enable the close functionality even for the single tab also.

A discription of what was in marina and what can be included in next iteration.

One of the big criticisms leveled at JavaFX presently is its lack of controls (or components if you come from the Swing world). This was addressed to some degree in JavaFX 1.2, but there are still many controls missing, and some of the controls in the latest release have relatively basic API’s at this point. Certainly this will improve in future releases, but I thought I’d try to simply explain the process you need to go through to build your own controls. Who knows, you might be able to sell them if you get them good enough.

In this article I will explain how to create a custom widget that displays a popup notification dialog in the bottom right corner of your screen (usually above the toolbar on Windows). Here’s what it will look like when we’re done: We could custom draw everything which would allow us more control over the widget, but for the sake of this article lets stick to using basic SWT components inside a normal Shell that we will make a bit prettier than your typical SWT Shell. (Do note this has only been tested on Windows, it’s quite possible tweaks are necessary for other platforms).

In JavaFX 1.2 a new layout container called ClipView was introduced. Mr Rakesh Menon shows how it can be used to implement scroll or pannable view.

There are many aspects of creating a website design. Web designers often have to play multiple roles and be very knowledgeable about building effective and usable site layouts.

First impressions last, and the very first impression your users have of your iPhone application is the start up. First step is to have a nice Default.png, but not many words spilled on that one, it is well covered in Apple's documentation.

In previous installments, we learnt how to create a Visual GUI in Rebol and how to create a Mini-Text Database, now we’ll combine the two: How to bind a Text Database to a Visual Form. I have much difficulty as newbie to find any tutorial for the absolute beginner, that’s why I wrote this one and hope you will enjoy it.

There are cool differences between the two languages. You don't want to miss out on why JavaFX will make strings fun again! (Strings fun? yeah!)

I am happy to release another free icon set: RSS Cheese. The set contains 4 high resolution RSS icons that come in four sizes: 512x512, 256x256, 128x128 and 64x64. Icons are completely free and can be used without any restrictions in any type of project inlcuding commercial projects.

Hey everyone, time for some free signature PSDs! I’ve gathered these great looking signatures, one photoshop signature created by Roroni, one photoshop signature created by nfx, and one photoshop signature created by castro. These PSD files should help you discover some new techniques and effects. Feel free to experiment and play around with these PSD files, however please respect the artists and do not claim to have made them yourself. I will be giving out more free signature PSD files in the future, so make sure to check back soon!

As I mentioned back here, my collegue, Jared MacDonald, also spoke at JavaOne 2009. Besides being an entertaining speaker, he delivered a great message about applying Test Driven Development (TDD) to user interface development. TDD is oft regarded as too difficult to apply in the UI space. Jared did a great job demonstrating why that’s simply not the case.

Flash it’s a powerful application and can be really complex, but even beginners can create a cool menu for demonstration or for use in a personal site. The menu that we will create is simple, but the swirl animation is something that you don’t see everywhere, for that I’ve decided to explain one way to make an animation of growing swirls without any Action Script code.You will also learn how to import artwork from illustrator where I’ve pre-made the graphics, the work is very simple and the result will be very cool.