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Adobe, Mobile Flash Player, JavaScript, etc.

By barneyb on November 10, 2011

Before you click over this because you know me as a Flash hater, give me two seconds.  That's not what this post is about.  It's about a larger issue.  It's about how awesome it is to be a web developer these days.
Ten years ago, being a web developer sucked.  Deployment was easy (rsync to production [...]

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Tag Hierarchies

By barneyb on December 10, 2008

About four and a half years ago I wrote a little event tracking app that accepts a timestamp and a list of tags, and then provides a pile of ways to report on the data.  Think Twitter, except a couple years earlier, and designed for consumption by software, not people, at least at the individual [...]

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jQuery's Autocomplete's Undocumented source Option

By barneyb on November 22, 2008

Yesterday I replaced an instance of my ComboBox widget with a jQuery Autocomplete.  A sad day it was.  However, I saved a JS file and a few K of download, so it was worth it.  Unfortunately, it's missing a fairly important bit of functionality: the ability to order the list of options.
If you're doing an [...]

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The FlexChart Manifesto

By barneyb on October 22, 2008

The current state of web applications is a fragmented mess.  HTML is still the standard approach, but dynamic data loading with Ajax and application embedding with Flash are both incredibly popular, particularly for data-heavy applications.
HTML is great because it's easy to build and well understood by user agents, but you lack drawing capabilities.  SVG addressed [...]

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Checkbox Range Selection Update

By barneyb on May 12, 2008

Just a little update to my checkbox range selection jQuery plugin to allow chaining.  I'd forgotten to return 'this' at the end of the function.  Here's the full source, including the mod:
(function($) {
$.fn.enableCheckboxRangeSelection = function() {
var lastCheckbox = null;
var $spec = this;
[...]

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Prototype and jQuery

By barneyb on May 7, 2008

Since I discovered it a few years ago, I've been a big Prototype fan.  It's simple, and gets the job done with a minimum of fuss.  It's not without warts, of course.  I still occasionally forget to put 'new' in front of Ajax.Request, and some of the Ruby-like methods share their lineage's arcane naming.  When [...]

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Ajaxian on Prototype vs JQuery

By barneyb on April 15, 2008

Ajaxian posted a little blurb on benchmarking Prototype and jQuery today. I've been a Prototype guy for years, but at the office we've gone from all-Prototype to all-jQuery, and performance degredation was one of the things I noticed. I never did any actual benchmarking, just went by feel, but it's interesting to see [...]

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JavaScript. At Last.

By barneyb on August 13, 2007

Working on gpsracr.com this evening, and whipped open my favorite chunk of JS: Prototype. It just gets better all the time. They've added support for automatically executing text that is returned from an Ajax.Request with an appropriate MIME type (like text/javascript), which means you don't even need result handlers. Just dispatch to [...]

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Improved ComboBox Demo

By barneyb on May 17, 2007

After Koen (a coworker) pointed out that my online ComboBox demo was rather user-unfriendly (like how you just had to "know" to type an 'a' in the fields), I threw some instructions around it. It's available at /web/widgets/, as before. There's also a new distro at /web/widgets/widgets-b2231.zip, and the project page has been [...]

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ComboBox Widget Update

By barneyb on May 16, 2007

I've been making tweaks to my ComboBox widget (first published in July 2005) in various apps of mine that use it, and figured it was time to publish an update. You can download the archive at /web/widgets/widgets-b2218.zip, play with the online demo (which is just the expanded archive) at /web/widgets/, or visit the project [...]

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