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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

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Using AJAX to Get City and State from ZIP Code Auto-Complete the Country Field The conventional way for users to specify their country is to select it from a drop-down list. This option could reduce the number of text fields and decrease the work that users have to do to sign up. It was a pain. Network Jobs Add this widget to your site!

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

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I want to request some content via Ajax and get just the content back, no markup - here you go. Almost certainly youll be needing to do some DOM manipulation stuff and Ajax and thats what jQuery slays at. Likely you are caching assets, so youll need to break that cache on assets that change and not break it on assets that dont.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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For brand loyalty and location hooks its actually a 3rd-Rail integration process ( foursquare and groupon, facebook ) There is a critical Key to this… having cache-able high performance entry for the user experience and some amount of offline functionality to support poor connectivity issue moments. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) But if I want to hire people that know about byte alignment and cache thrashing I look in the one place where.Net does not feature. Like what?! But why should I?

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