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I’ve been doing a lot of work lately with a client who’s using just the controller portion of JavaScriptMVC. I plan to write a more in-depth post about this while I’m traveling this week, but in the meantime, I wanted to jot down the steps to create the standalone controller.js file for my future reference. [...]
This article originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of JSMag.
We’re all familiar with the basic events — click, mouseover, focus, blur, submit, etc. — that we can latch on to as a user interacts with the browser. Custom events open up a whole new world of event-driven programming. In this article, we’ll use jQuery’s [...]
This is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the March 2009 issue of JSMag.
When you move beyond simple snippets of jQuery and start developing more complex user interactions, your code can quickly become unwieldy and difficult to debug. This article shows you how to start thinking about these interactions in terms of [...]
Steve Reynolds, web services manager at Sony Computers (SCEE), contacted me last week about writing a guest post on his blog, reynoldsftw.com, and I happily obliged. Check out my post there about custom events in jQuery, and how they can change your approach to event binding by putting the emphasis on the element being acted [...]
This post is focused on using Twitter for “personal branding” — establishing yourself as an influential voice on a topic in which you have some expertise. I want to say up front that I don’t deign to suggest that I’m adding anything new to the sea of “getting started on Twitter” content that’s out there. [...]
Just solved a problem where the jQuery validation plugin wasn’t playing so nicely with TinyMCE — the validation plugin was trying to validate the textarea before TinyMCE had a chance to copy the editor contents back to the textarea. I was about to yank TinyMCE out of the page but a little reading through the [...]
When I work with a client to start a blog, one of the first things I do is ask them to give me a list of ideas they have for what they will write about. Seeing the list helps me assess where they are when it comes to understanding what blogging is about; seeing who [...]
There have been plenty of rumblings lately about how WordPress can be used as a content management system, beyond its core competency as a blogging platform. By harnessing the power of pages and subpages, writing custom Page templates, segmenting posts into category-based content feeds, and using handy little plugins like my brother’s Page Link Manager, [...]
At DailyStrength, we’re working on an abstract way to attach a Javascript behavior (popping a modal, sliding in a form) to objects — journals, comments, etc. — being displayed on the site. We wanted to attach some information to the objects by putting their type and ID in classnames. Then it would be up to [...]
We recently added a new feature to dailystrength.org, and there was much debate about whether users would use it as we intended. To find out, I wrote a clicktrack ditty that sends some data to the server when a link is clicked. It was somewhat inspired by a post I wrote a while ago about [...]
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