Javascript
Validation, Business and Functional
The recent discussion of Form Validation - How do you do it?, had me wondering just what might be involved in creating an easy to use validation framework. It’s a task that might seem easy, but when you get down to all the special cases it’s anything but. ColdFusion is a language designed around rapid [...]
New Prototype.js Books Available
Recently, I stumbled across a very unexpected book at a trek to Barnes and Noble: Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Being a long time Prototype user and reader of Justin Palmer I was surprised there wasn’t more press on this one. Not to be outdone though, the Pragmatic Programmers series announced the new book Prototype [...]
ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio) is Coming
It seems this is the first week ColdFusion 8 is hitting headlines everywhere — and it’s still in a closed beta! I’m sure it won’t be long until there’s a public beta, but until then there are a slew of released features from official usergroup presentations and Ben Forta’s blog. Here’s a quick highlight [...]
Make AJAX Easy with Model-Glue - Joe Rinehart
Notes from Joe Rinehart’s talk on Ajax and Model Glue at Frameworks 2007.
Ajax in this context is using an out of bound information in javascript allowing multiple page requests within a single page. Joe’s going over some ajax basics and how it’s changed our html workflow. We no longer get an entire request back, now [...]
Prototype, That other library that everyone uses
It seems I’ve been reading mostly about jQuery lately in an attempt to make the jump, but Prototype seems to be in the headlines lately. Prototype has been in a bit of a dark age it seems. In the past year the only change I’ve heard about is the addition of the class selector, $$(). [...]
If you needed another reason to use jQuery, it’s here
Here at home with personal projects I haven’t yet reached the javascript stage of development on any projects I’m working on. So far it’s just been prototyping and interface design, so I’ve been able to site back and read up on Javascript libraries. Lucky I did because the end all reason to use jQuery in [...]
Isn’t it obvious?
Is it easy to explain the difference between a hash
var myHash = {a: ‘value for a’}
and an object
var myObject = {a: ‘value for a’}
Sam Stephenson @ Ruby-sponoffs
Prototype vs JQuery?
I’ve always been a Prototype advocate. Not for any deep down reason for how it compares with jQuery though, mostly because I was interested in learning Ruby on Rails and it happend to be the library of choice. With version 1.0 of jQuery hitting the shelves over the weekend, it’s a good time [...]
If it works, use it
Busy couple of weeks. Nothing out of the ordinary going on, except that I’ve been working on ArcadeFly and learning a load of new things. At the moment the framework is extremely flexible. Everything displayed by the javascript is done through XML transformed using AjaxSLT (googles XSLT implementation). Makes updating everything insanely [...]
Ajax? What’s Ajax?
I’m starting to like the whole waking up at the same time each day thing. As long as people keep calling me at 9am on saturdays I think i’ll be able to stay on it too (don’t worry, i was already up ;). Friday at work was actually a a lot of fun. [...]
