Coder’s Eye

I’m pleased to announce the release of my first Adobe AIR application. This is a simple little desktop (not browser) app which checks your status on Weewar to see if you have any games waiting for your attention.
Revision 2.2 feature list:

Checks your status using the Weewar API
User settable interval between checks
You can force an update […]

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A while back, I wrote an article about why I was switching to ExtJS from jQuery. This remains one of the top ten pages on the site, despite the fact that I never really did switch. Checking it just now, I am certain that it is the most heavily commented article on the site.
The fact […]

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When I recently updated an Adobe AIR app I’d written for AIR Beta 1, I found that I had to go to enormous lengths to continue being able to use Ext as a support library for it.

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You can use HTTP Basic Authentication with Javascript/Ajax in just three steps. I’ll give you them in just a moment.
The Background
This morning, I was experimenting with Adobe AIR, writing a client to tell me whether I have games waiting for me to make a move on Weewar, and I needed to be able […]

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This week, I’ve switched favorite Javascript frameworks. I was a heavy jQuery user, and still think that the framework is very nice. As part of a discussion on the Satchmo-Developers list about what Javascript framework to use as the default for the Satchmo web shop framework, I ended up doing a survey of […]

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Over time and thousands of lines of professional Javascript programming, I’ve developed an almost bulletproof Javascript layout style. It is important to have one, even if you are the only person working on your script, because:

it helps you read the code more quickly
it helps you not forget browser "gotchas"
it makes your code more reusable […]

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I’m so pleased by how useful and concise jQuery has been for my development of a dynamic FAQ module for Drupal. I can’t share that module yet, but I can talk about the jQuery that gives it a snappy and useful facelift.
It isn’t original, of course. Just click-to-toggle questions on a faq page. […]

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I’ve been working on a Drupal module to automatically make CSS-styled drop-down menus from the built-in menuing system. That’s been going great, and I’m really enjoying Drupal’s modular architecture and theming abilities.

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I’m continuing to enjoy working with jQuery.

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Now that I am doing professional web layouts for clients, I find myself appreciating the quick, easy, and well-documented jQuery library. I just don’t have time to hassle with Dojo and its size, widgets I don’t need, and messy documentation.

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