Archive for 'javascript'

YUI After the Dojo Snail

I remember seeing Dojo for the first time and I was hooked on the flashy gizmo’s and widgets from the off. The awkward learning curve was cast aside as I went about reading and listening to everything I could lay my hands on. After a while of using Dojo on many of my work projects [...]

YUI: Refresh DataTable – Method 2

As mentioned in the previous post the way I refreshed a datatable widget after a change in the data was to reinstantiate the table. The way I did this was to simply make my widgets configuration and creation into a functin which I could then call at will whenever I needed it to take on [...]

Yahoo UI – New DataTable Widget

When I first looked at YUI when I was on the hunt for a simple yet powerful Ajax library I cast it aside in favour of Dojo. Which back then I preffered due to its tag parsing as opposed to pure JS implementation of its various widgets. However, now I’m getting a bit more into [...]

Practice Makes Perfect

Its always good to hone your programming skills outside of your usual day-to-day job with a selection of different challenges.  That’s why I’ve compiled a list of games, quizes and challenge sites for programmers which are useful for any language. 1. Code Kata Created by Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers this is a regular [...]

Ajax Scaffold – Improved Search/Filter

I can’t take the credit for this one this time but its a huge improvement on the previous category filter I created using the Ajax Scaffold Generator earlier in the month. This one courtesy of a gentleman at ASG Google Groups who posted a filter with an auto complete search box and after giving it [...]