For full disclosure, Packt Publishing sent me a review copy of this book. They did not ask for a positive review, just a review. <update>The book’s official page is at Packt Pub’s Official Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook site</update> This is the first book by Jorge Ramon that I’ve read. This book is exactly what the title says that it is, a Cookbook. It’s got 109 solutions to problems solved by » read more.
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I had heard about this effort a few weeks back but I’m thrilled that it’s public and I can talk about it now. Karsten Januszewski and some of the other whiz kids on the MIX team have put together a visual designer for jQuery called Glimmer. Right now, they’ve got a number of design wizards that you can leverage but they’ve built a great plug-in model so that you can » read more.
I’m in conversation with a group that’s using Ext JS for their RIA. As I haven’t used it, I thought I’d go ask at the international water fountain that is twitter about it. Anyone using Ext JS? Thoughts compared to jQuery or Prototype/Scriptaculous?about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck This is what I got back (I love twitter): parkerkrhoyt@joshholmes IMHO, Ext is more about traditional applications. jQuery is a Swiss » read more.
Like so many thing that we do in our daily development, there’s a high probability that someone has already solved the problem if you know where to look. This is just a collection of resources that I’ve found useful over time. Honestly, I’m posting these here because I need them in one place so that I can find them easily… JavaScript Resources Like a lot of you, I’ve been doing » read more.
In my previous two posts, Building a Simple Photo Gallery in ASP.NET MVC Framework and Returning Thumbnails With the MVC Framework, I built a simple photo gallery on the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this post we are going to start making this a little prettier. To start with, we are going to leverage an JavaScript project called Lightbox.js that’s released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. One cool part » read more.
Wow I’ve been swamped. There’s so much to blog about in the past couple of weeks so I’m just going to catch some of the highlights. Ann Arbor Day of .NET was on 5/5/2007. It was fantastic! It sold out at 250 people and of that there were 210 people show up. That’s actually really good as most free events have a 40% droppoff and they had less than 20% » read more.
I was asked on Friday by a friend how one can consume JSON in Silverlight. At the time, I just said start with the System.Json namespace and I’ll get you a sample later. Well, here’s a sample and a peek into my head because I couldn’t just stop with creating the sample that he needed. Download Solution – PlayingWithJSON.zip *Update – gotta do a quick shoutout to Leon Gersing for » read more.
One of the key messages that I’ve been talking about with a lot of my customers recently is a continuum of experience. It starts on the left with Web and it’s absolute ubiquity through HTML and CSS. This works on any device with a browser from a phone to any desktop and even a lot of computer based applications (such as search engines or spam email harvesting engines). The tradeoff » read more.
I’m speaking on Silverlight at the The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose, CA. At the last minute, I was pulled into a panel discussion that kicked off the conference. It was a fun panel. There was a editor from InfoWord named Paul Krill who wrote a fantastic article on InfoWorld. There were representatives from Microsoft (me), IBM (Jon Ferraiolo), Yahoo (Bill Scott), Ryan Breen (VP of web testing company Gomez) » read more.
ArcReady is ramping up again for another quarter’s worth of content. This quarter we have Jon Rauschenberger from Clarity Consulting putting together content on Web 2.0 based on his experience with creating the FaceBook Developers API and more. Applying Lessons to Your Company After Tim O’Reilly’s article “What is Web 2.0” in 2005, there has been considerable buzz around Web 2.0 technologies and the companies that use them. From the » read more.
