Today I added a reference to jQuery UI via Nuget to the rewrite of the Dimecasts.net website and as soon as I launched the site locally I was presented with the following dialog: Now given the fact that the ONLY change to my code base was adding the scripts to my scripts folder as well as adding the...
Do you like JavaScript? Have you been looking for a reaon or an idea to learn and start using HTML5? Google Chrome extesions are a great way to get into HTML5 and all its new APIs with bite sized applications. Anatomy of a Chrome Extension A Chrome extesion is nothing more than a tiny website that runs...
This last week I learned a new thing about jQuery custom events, particularly the ones of global nature. There's good documentation and examples about custom element events, but not much for the global ones. Why do we need custom events? Custom events make it easier to keep complex pages under control...
Just before I emigrated to Australia, I took on a small contract to build a website for a UK company who wanted to start up a new kind of UK recruitment site, one where employers could advertise directly, and more specifically one where recruitment agencies couldn’t. The result was Empty Lemon...
This post is part of a series called the Guided Tours . In this second installment we are still looking inside the jQuery code. Trust me, even if it's hard to digest, you can still learn enough if you focus on a little bit at a time. The code we are interested in today is the following. //from jQuery...