Over the years, I’ve read or been recommended a number of books which are essential reading for professional web developers. I’ve compiled the list of books below to help the community find a comprehensive list of good books that can… Continue Reading
So far in my series on jQuery JavaScript Templating, I’ve showed how to create a basic jQuery JavaScript template and then nest templates for increased layout flexibility and maintainability. If you haven’t read those two posts, I highly recommend you… Continue Reading
I just finished my presentation at Think Vitamin’s jQuery Online Conference and it was such a great experience. This is the first BIG virtual conference I’ve presented at and it ran smooth as silk. I really have to hand it… Continue Reading
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
I hate to admit it but I haven’t looked at <canvas> yet. It’s not for lack of wanting but more of time. Seems like there’s SO many cool things out there to learn and nailing down time is tough. So… Continue Reading