Tag Archives: javascript

Post Strange Loop 2009: Slides and Source Code

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

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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Growler Grails Plugin

I’m working on a Grails plugin called Growler, which provides Growl-like notifications within a webpage using jquery, jquery-ui, and the jGrowl jquery plugin.
It is still in the alpha release at the moment, and there are plenty of things that need work, but has been fun and easy so far using jquery usefully. I hope [...]


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360 Degrees of Form Processing with Grails and GrailsUI Modal Dialogs

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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UI Developers? LEARN JAVASCRIPT!

I started ranting this morning on Marc Palmer’s blog in response to a post he made about the implementation of JavaScript UI frameworks as plugins to web frameworks. Marc and I have an amicable professional relationship (even though he went through a strange Toto phase), and I think it better to post my response [...]


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