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Using Deferreds in jQuery 1.5 1 Feb 2011 | 07:35 am
Deferreds, new in jQuery 1.5, decouple logic dependent on the outcome of a task from the task itself. They’re nothing new to the JavaScript scene; Mochikit and Dojo have implemented them for some time...
A Recursive setTimeout Pattern 19 Oct 2010 | 06:30 am
Colin Snover wrote a good article about why he thinks setInterval is considered harmful: setInternval ignores errors. If an error occurs in part of your code, it’ll be thrown over and over again. se...
Using $.widget.bridge Outside of the Widget Factory 14 Oct 2010 | 02:18 am
Within jQuery UI’s widget factory exists a little method called $.widget.bridge, which acts as a middle man between the object created with $.widget and the jQuery API. Because bridge is a public func...
Working With XML, jQuery, and JavaScript 30 Aug 2010 | 04:44 am
A recent requirement of mine was to convert large CSV files to XML, and then build an accompanying interface to update & manage the data. jQuery was most useful for traversing & manipulating the larg...
jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget 7 Jul 2010 | 10:53 am
This is the successor and port of my original jQuery MultiSelect Plugin to a jQuery UI widget. While both will actively be maintained, I highly recommend you use this version over the plugin version. ...
jQuery “Create” Event 15 Jun 2010 | 12:12 am
The livequery plugin allows us to bind events and general logic to all current and future elements. After the inclusion of live() in 1.3, an expansion of supported live event types in 1.4, and the int...
A jQuery UI Growl/Ubuntu-like Notification Widget 13 May 2010 | 12:11 pm
Update 7/6/2010: version 1.4.1 is out! There are about a dozen other plugins out there that do this already, except most seem to come with an enormous footprint: 10-12k of code, X-number of images, a...
Tips for Developing jQuery UI 1.8 Widgets 23 Apr 2010 | 12:33 am
I’m wrapping up my first jQuery UI widget (see multiselect on GitHub) and thought it would be useful to share some notes I took on the widget factory & widget development in general. I personally fou...
A New And Improved jQuery Idle Timeout Plugin 13 Apr 2010 | 12:42 am
This is a followup to an older post of mine about notifying & prompting your users for action once they’ve become idle. I’ve since re-written and abstracted the logic, creating a much more useful & cu...
A Quick Gotcha With CFML & JSON Serialization 30 Mar 2010 | 12:39 am
ColdFusion internally represents structure keys in uppercase when the keys are created using dot notation. Dot notation is typically how programmers write their code and is considered to be best pract...
