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Understand Ajax vulnerabilities

All applications, including those built using Ajax technologies, are vulnerable to exploits that compromise websites and the databases that drive them. In this article, learn about some of the threats to Ajax technologies and how to guard against them.  More >

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  • Build a new theme for Drupal 7

    Ready to write your first Drupal 7 theme? Build a working foundation as you create an example working theme, based on the PHPtemplate engine, in this conceptual and hands-on introduction.

  • Improve your XSLT 2.0 stylesheets with types and schemas

    Debug and test your stylesheets with the type-aware and schema-aware features of XSLT 2.0 for improved quality and robustness in handling all input data. Catch stylesheet errors and get useful error messages as you avoid common issues with invalid paths, incorrect assumptions about data types, and cardinalities.

  • Make your HTML pages smarter with RDFa 1.1 Lite

    Learn about Resource Description Framework annotation Lite, a simplified system for annotating HTML documents inline on the web, and how you can use it to optimize your pages for search engines and other sophisticated tools.

  • Tools to unit test your JavaScript

    With the current focus on the client side of web applications, unit testing JavaScript code is becoming essential. In this article, take a look at some of the most common tools for unit testing JavaScript: QUnit, YUI Test, and JSTestDriver.

  • Load external JavaScript libraries on demand with Dojo 1.5

    Reduce your web application's load time using Dojo's dojo.io.script method for asynchronous, on-demand loading of JavaScript libraries. Example code helps you concisely "wrap" loading of external JavaScript libraries.

  • Developing an IBM SmartCloud for Social Business application

    Learn how to develop an application that integrates with IBM SmartCloud for Social Business by authenticating/authorizing via the Open Authorization protocol, calling the SmartCloud for Social Business service APIs to do a useful task, and extending the UI to show an integrated look.


Recognizing developerWorks Contributing author Joe Lennon
Joe Lennon is a mobile and web application developer from Cork, Ireland. Joe works for Core International, where he leads the development of Core's mobile HR self-service solutions. Joe is also a keen technical writer, having written many articles and tutorials for developerWorks on topics such as DB2 pureXML, Flex, JavaScript, Adobe AIR, .NET, PHP, Python, and much more.

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