In my last post, I presented an intro to how to create a template using the new jQuery Template plugin being developed by the Microsoft Ajax Core team. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to nest templates to have… Continue Reading
In preparation for my upcoming talk on jQuery Templates, I’ve been been deep diving into the jQuery Template plugin created by Microsoft.. Many of you are probably familiar with server-side template engines like Smarty or Cheetah but only recently have… Continue Reading
This coming Monday (7/12/2010), I’ll be one of the speakers at Think Vitamin’s jQuery Online Conference. I’ll be speaking about using the Microsoft jQuery Template plugin to produce easily maintainable dynamic pages via pre-built JavaScript templates. This is a great… Continue Reading
Over the weekend I was fiddling was some code to see how to make a generic activity indicator for Ajax requests. I’m sure most of you have seen these but if not, here’s one similar to what Facebook uses: While… Continue Reading
In an incredibly generous move, jQuery star Rebecca Murphey has released the training materials she uses for her jQuery Fundamentals class under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States license. This is a pretty significant contribution because developing good… Continue Reading
Nailing down the crazy YayQuery crew and keeping them in one place was a challenge but Ralph Whitbeck and I managed to do it and nail down another jQuery Podcast/video interview in the process. Check them out: Paul Irish is… Continue Reading
I got some more videos edited and uploaded for you guys to check out. If you’re really into JavaScript, then you need to stay aware of what Nicholas Zakas of Yahoo! is doing. He wrote the book (literally) on JavaScript… Continue Reading
One of the things I hate about using CDNs is remembering the path for the latest version of my favorite JavaScript library. I end up having to pull a search engine, search for the site, find my library, copy &… Continue Reading
During the jQuery conference in Mountain View, I got a chance to video interview a number of people. First up are Steve Souders, Google’s Performance Evangelist. Apart from Steve’s great comments on performance and mobile, what I truly appreciated was… Continue Reading
I was recently on a project where I needed a really flexible persistent data storage mechanism. Normally, this would be fairly easily handled via server-side data persistence code but in this case, each page of the app was basically a… Continue Reading