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Many companies are turning to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to use their existing IT assets in new ways. Application functionality is made available as a service, available to all applications that use that particular capability. Business managers know that an SOA is a key technology in business integration, and can help increase agility, improve customer satisfaction, and increase responsiveness.

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enterprise, Opensource, service-oriented architecture, soa, Sun, whitepaper

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小心IE7 javascript 的 getElementById Method 的問題

Posted by Chowky in Articles, Jquery, Mootools, News on August 6, 2009

1. 要注意用相同的 name and id attributes for Form Inputs
chowky 很久以前都覺得奇怪，不過這是因為IE系列和其他不同的browser的分別，ie 是會search 左name attribute先，再search id attribute，但是其他browser是不會的。所以兩個attributes 都要用相同的名。避免發生問題

1	<input type="text" name="full_address" id="address" value="5th Avenue" />

2. 不要放name attribute 在form tag 入面。
和上面的情況非常相似，要避免IE的問題。

不過chowky 不知道name 是deprecated (哈)

Also, the name attribute for forms is deprecated in XHTML Strict, so it’s not best practice anyhow. The name attribute was added to form elements in older sites, so if you’re trying to debug a getElementById issue in IE7 on some inherited code, there could be a conflict occurring due to this fact.

1 2	<form id="contact_form"> </form>

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getElementById, IE6, ie7, javascript, 問題

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3 Reasons Why Clients Don’t Choose you?

Posted by Chowky in Articles on August 5, 2009

chowky thinks it is similar to many industry (at least for the IT industry)

3 個原因:

1. Price 價錢

太便宜的話，別人都不會信你。

On the other side, a client may not choose you because your prices are too low!

Even though we received quotes from others that were way below what you quoted us, we want to work with you because your portfolio and professionalism exceeds the rest, and that is what is important to us.”

純粹價格的上競爭，香港跟本不能和大陸、印度的比較，所以應該要從其他方面著手。

不過chowky現在都要選擇性接。depends on projects how it affects you。

2. Professionalism 專業

Every way you interact with the client is reviewed

自己想想….自己會不會有些習慣令人的感覺有問題。

3. Portfolio 作品的選輯

The client wants to feel completely confident that you can provide a perfect solution for their needs, and no matter how good the rest of the work in your portfolio is, if it is not industry related to their company, they may not choose to work with you.

Source: http://www.brianyerkes.com/3-reasons-why-clients-dont-choose-you/

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Sticky (Fixed) SideNav Layout with CSS

Posted by Chowky in Articles, Jquery, Mootools on August 5, 2009

完成圖

構成的structure

HTML tag

<div class="container">
	<div id="sidenav><!--Fixed Sidenav Goes Here--></div>
	<div id="content"><!--Content Goes Here--></div>
</div>

利用簡單的技巧，
把sidenav 的加上position 和fix的properties.
position: fixed;
float: left;
CSS

.container {
	width: 980px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	overflow: hidden;
	background: url(container_stretch.gif);
	font-size: 1.2em;
	position: relative;
}
#sidenav {
	width: 300px;
	position: fixed; /*--Fix the sidenav to stay in one spot--*/
	float: left; /*--Keeps sidenav into place when Fixed positioning fails--*/
}
#content {
	float: right; /*--Keeps content to the right side--*/
	width: 640px;
	padding: 0 20px 20px;
}

可惜ie6不支援fixed position property
所以要workaround..

*html #sidenav {
	position: absolute;
	left: expression( ( 0   ( ignoreMe2 = document.documentElement.scrollLeft ? document.documentElement.scrollLeft : document.body.scrollLeft ) )   'px' );
	top: expression( ( 0   ( ignoreMe = document.documentElement.scrollTop ? document.documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop ) )   'px' );
}

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[iPhone] 3gs Specification Accidentally Revaled

Posted by Chowky in Articles, News, iPhone on June 16, 2009

最新的iphone 3gs，600 MHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM
而iphone 3g， 412 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM
其他公司的smartphone 配備:
BlackBerry Bold: 624 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM
Palm Pre: 600 MHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM
Nokia N97: 434 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM.

311136-500-204
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3gs, specification, 硬件, 配備

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比較不同的 Flex Framework

Posted by Chowky in AIR, Articles, FLEX, RIA on May 17, 2009

一個小型的project 當然是可以不用framework。但當project scale比較大而又涉及3個人以上的呢，framework 就非常有用了，因為每個programmer 都有自己一套思考方法，寫出來的coding style 都會不一樣，coding style 就會變得很亂，maintain & develop就會變得困難，所以framework 可以bound 住programmer 的思考，framework 是可以 keep coding be clean and separated，當然最理想的是可以做到 decouping。

大家可以參考一下為什麼要用frameworks.

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