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It was 5 maybe 6 years ago when I first started learning jQuery. One of the first things I did was order the jQuery In Action book . If you have read that book you should remember one of the first examples given, zebra striping a table. To me this example
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I owe so much to John Resig and the jQuery team for creating such a wonderful framework. I have staked most of my recent career on jQuery the way I staked my career on ASP.NET back in 2001. I have built many applications using jQuery over the past five
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When I released the panorama.js library earlier this month I mentioned it was written to NOT depend on jQuery. Eliminating my need to depend on jQuery is an overall goal of mine. The primary reason is the pursuit of better app performance and a shift
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There are dozens of standard events triggered by the browser based on user input, but sometimes the standard set of browser events just wont cut it for your application. Fortunately you can create your own custom events. I have read and probably shared
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I love jQuery and like most modern web developers it was the gateway that got me into heavy AJAX development. But like all things that make life easy it comes with a cost and that cost is performance. I find myself caught between using jQuery and just
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It's hard to believe we are entering the last quarter of 2012 already and I have had a very busy year. I have been able to present in at least 7 states and a few online presentations. To finish the year I will visit at least 2 more states and the
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Lately I have been working through a solution where I needed 'real-time' information about the dimensions of an image so I could programmatically perform resizing operations. My first approach was to use the jQuery height and width functions. But both
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As I have matured my AJAX skills over the past few years I have settled on some standard patterns that seem to be best practices by many. One that I was sort of late in adopting was anonymous self-executing anonymous functions. I had seen them used, especially
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If you know me you know I am a fanatic about application performance and that I am a big fan of Steve Souders and the practice of web performance optimization (WPO). In the past I have recommended both High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites
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Last week Microsoft released version 2 of one of my favorite web development tools, WebMatrix. You can download the latest Web Matrix version (2) right now and get started. The latest version of WebMatrix has added many new features that put it on par
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This is going to be my third installment in this series about making an HTML5 version of the game Pente. The main goal for this phase was to properly place the stones on the nearest grid intersection from where the user touched the board. That part turned
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Recently I have been creating single page web applications utilizing URL fragments . Essentially this is a new twist to an old technique that has been around for a very long time. While not used as much these days I remember around a decade ago
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Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world . In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can
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As I have immersed myself into modern web and mobile architectures I have come to one conclusion, multipage web sites are dead men walking. Constant request, retrieve, react is not a competitive application design going forward. The combination of high
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3-4 years ago I started my change from being an ASP.NET Webforms developer to being an ASP.NET AJAX application developer. This meant finally breaking down and learning how to create applications using JavaScript, a task I was not happy about. The first
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