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yahoo launches online poker for real money

mattias — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:02:20 +0000

Yesterday Yahoo! launched online poker for real money. I think this is huge news in the gaming/gambling industry as one of the worlds largest online company decides to enter a market where the competition is fierce and as it is today have 4 largest poker networks (PokerStars, PartyGaming, Full Tilt Poker and Ongame Network (bwin)) sharing 60-80% of the online poker real money market.

It is both interesting to see how Yahoo with its huge customerbase can create liquidity in the Boss Media Poker Network and also see which markets it will focus on in the future.

I believe Yahoo can be one of the biggest players in online poker if they choose to put focus on it.

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jQuery Form Validation as Smarty Plugins

mattias — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:32:00 +0000

When we redesigned two of our sites we put a lot of effort into making the signup process better and focused on making a lot of input validation before posting the page. We also knew that there is a lot of business data that we need to validate before posting the whole signup form, this was achieved with ajax calls to an api. Now we use a jquery validator, implemented as a smarty-plugin, all over the site whenever we have a form with user input. We have found that despite the focus on DOM-manipulation and a lot of graphical plugins, jquery form validation is very powerful combined with the graphical effects you can easily achieve with the library.

See our longer article on Form Validation in general and 10 tips making it work better for you.

Smarty and jQuery should make the perfect couple done right in your front end architecture.

Ajax Poker

mattias — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:43:43 +0000

Finally, someone have written a poker-client in javascript using Ajax-technologies for client-server communication. Awesome. They use the Google Web Toolkit. Awesome work.

Try GPokr out.