javascript

If you have ever visited the Java Developer Journal web site you have had to contend with their annoying popup ad that blocks the whole screen until you click "close window". Whilst I support the need for sites to make money from advertising the lengths that sys-con go to is just a darn right abuse of Internet users. In fact its the whole of the sys-con.com and its subdomain that employ this type of spamming.

One of the neat features I learned using Flex/Actionscript was e4x which stands for "ECMAScript for XML" . ECMAScript is what we commonly know as javascript. What's great about e4x is that its a javascript standard extension and that it's a really usefull and easy API.