Category Archives: javascript

Yahoo! I got an AWESOME job

By Matthew Taylor | December 3, 2009

After posting this awhile back, I have found a truly AWESOME job, and will be moving to Silicon Valley to work for Yahoo! on their Presentation Platform Team. This position solidifies my movement from the back-end to the front-end, and I’m really excited to be working alongside the talented people I’ve met during my interview [...]

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Post Strange Loop 2009: Slides and Source Code

By Matthew Taylor | October 24, 2009

I really wish I could have attended both days of the Strange Loop conference. Judging from the time I was there, I’m sure things were very fun on the first day, especially the party and Strange Passions session at Blueberry Hill afterward.
Here are the slides from my presentation:

JQuery: JavaScript Library of the Future
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jQuery: JavaScript Library of the Future

By Matthew Taylor | September 12, 2009

At the Strange Loop Conference this year in St. Louis, I will be taking center stage on Oct 23 to give a presentation on the jQuery JavaScript Framework. Here is an introduction to the talk I’ll be giving there.

You website will suck without a fluid, usable UI. Your UI will suck without a [...]

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My Grails Presentations at SpringOne / 2GX

By Matthew Taylor | September 12, 2009

I am greatly looking forward to SpringOne / 2GX on October 19-22 in New Orleans! The last Groovy/Grails Experience happened just before I joined G2One, and I didn’t have the opportunity to attend. I have worked with a lot of outstanding people within the GG community without meeting the majority of them, so [...]

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360 Degrees of Form Processing with Grails and GrailsUI Modal Dialogs

By dhonig | February 20, 2009

Daniel Honig is an independent architect/developer/consultant living in New York City. Daniel is a contributor to GrailsUI and is writing this post as a guest for the benefit of GrailsUI users.
So recently I was reviewing some work that was done for us by a few developers of our team and discovered that we had some very ugly code that used an iframe inside of a gui dialog for a form submission. This resulted in the dialog appearing with scroll bars and other undesirable behavior.
Why was it that they had chosen to use an iframe instead of  just  using [...]

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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: