Articles on JavaScript / AJAX
Agile Practices… visualized?
Only pure agile devotees will find it interesting… Revisiting agile methodologies, I wanted to solidify my understanding of the differences between agile, scrum, XP, etc. I went through a mini-research project of reviewing the “canonical” sources of these practices, and then built a quick visualization to clarify my understanding: http://ndpsoftware.com/agile_methods/agile_methods.html Hint: Try dragging around the …
Evernote for the Palm Pre
The Pre, an innovative next generation smartphone from Palm Inc., recently launched with much fanfare. Access to the WebOS SDK was limited to a few select partners including Evernote, maker of a web, mobile and desktop applications for capturing and finding our memories, notes and inspirations. The Pre and the app are getting a good amount press from tech heavyweights like lifehacker and ZDnet. We …
Convenient CSS and Javascript in Ruby on Rails
I get tired of hunting through a hierarchy of folders and files, from the views to the public folder, to locate a certain CSS or Javascript file. It’d be convenient to have them right with the markup, but embedding these definitions within your HTML markup is a bad idea for several reasons. For our current …
Absolutize for jQuery
We’re using jQuery for one of our current projects. Today I found myself in an IE situation that could be solved by using the prototype librarie’s absolutize method. I couldn’t find any equivilent implementation that I liked in jQuery so I went ahead and ported absolutize from prototype to jquery. Download Here It can be …
Dojo drag and drop gotcha in IE
I have been working on a web app for one of our clients that includes a pretty interactive AJAX / Web 2.0 component within it. This component is essentially a simplified drag-and-drop book publishing tool, which allows users to upload images and then to arrange them on predefined templates in order to create a book. …