jQuery JavaScript Templates Tutorial: Inline Expressions and Code Blocks

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

The Source Code for my Twitter Demo from the Think Vitamin jQuery Online Conference Templating Presentation

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

jQuery JavaScript Templates Tutorial: Nesting Templates

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

Not Using jQuery JavaScript Templates? You’re Really Missing Out.

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

I’m Presenting on jQuery Templates at ThinkVitamin’s jQuery Online Conference

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

Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests

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

Canvas Baby Steps: An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element

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

jQuery Fundamentals Training Material Available as Open Source

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

Shrinking Your JavaScript Files for Improved Page Performance

With all of the performance advances in JavaScript engines in modern browsers, it’s easy to forget that we still need to do some legwork ourselves, especially considering how many users are still on older browsers. Compressing JavaScript files is an… Continue Reading

TXJS JavaScript Conference Wrapup

Last Saturday I attended TXJS, my second conference of the year focused specifically on JavaScript-related discussions and presentations. The conference drew approximately 180 attendees consisting of some of the most well-known JavaScript developers in the world including Douglas Crockford (JavaScript… Continue Reading