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...
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...
This post is part of a series called the Guided Tours . I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that one of the best ways to improve our coding skills is by reading code written by someone else. Sometimes we don't realize how lucky we are to have so much source code at our fingertips, namely Open...
I wrote a nice little charting component for our site recently, and needed to call a Javascript function in one View (the one that was the main page for charting), from another View (one that went off to the server using Ajax to load up a list of feeds that could be charted). This would have been traditionally...