Archive for the ‘JavaScript’ Category

An Open Letter To jQuery Plugin Authors

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

The following applies to the authoring of all software libraries, not just jQuery plug-ins, but I've been looking at lots of jQuery UI widgets lately, so.... As the author of a shiny new jQuery plug-in, I'm sure that after all of your hard work, you would be very pleased to have ...

JavaOne 2009 – Wed, 6/3 – Morning

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

First, an observation - today, I decided to stop lugging my laptop around, and left it at the hotel - I'm fully dependent on the SunRay terminals today - the wireless connectivity left a lot to be desired yesterday, anyway I'm sure that the virtualization network is under maximum load right ...

A Small Dose of jQuery

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

A recent web application project had several user interaction scenarios that I realized would be much more user-friendly if implemented using some RIA technology. If this were a large application, with a heavily-RIA interaface and some ramp-up time to burn, I would have considered either Flex or GWT. I've tried out ...