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How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

Colleen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:17:23 +0000

I had a kind of implied request to talk about the code in this jquery jigsaw puzzle. I sort of figured you can grab a copy if you like, but maybe a little expository prose will enable you to focus on the salient parts of the script. This script makes use of several of the . . . → Read More: How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

Adventures in Resource Mining

Colleen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:14:37 +0000

In my previous post in this series, I described some ancient software that I wrote years ago that I would like to recycle for the web. This post focuses on massaging the existing resources so that they are web-ready. Boring, but critical, and not so easy, as it turned out! . . . → Read More: Adventures in Resource Mining

Hypercard What has thou wrought?

Colleen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:46:12 +0000

This series of posts is planned to document of some my adventures trying to leverage an abandoned Hypercard opus I did a long time ago. It’s more of a narrative than a how to. A lot of different realms come into play here. So if you aren’t up for reading . . . → Read More: Hypercard What has thou wrought?

Embed.ly: One API to rule them all

Colleen — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:03:49 +0000

Something very very cool fell into my inbox today.

The back story I had been researching OEmbed kind of as a background project to see if I could use it in my own stuff. Now what is OEmbed, you ask? It is a specification by which a simple link transforms itself into rich content. If . . . → Read More: Embed.ly: One API to rule them all

How to integrate a jQuery plugin into Yii Framework

Colleen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:59:04 +0000

I have been studying up on Yii framework as a potential alternative to Zend. It has its pluses and minuses. Yii framework comes with jQuery included at the core. It was ridiculously easy to download a jQuery plugin, drop it in as a black box, follow the instructions for the front end, and . . . → Read More: How to integrate a jQuery plugin into Yii Framework

Dojo toolkit wrapper

Colleen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:02:42 +0000

I’ve been finding lately that my simplest blog posts grow the longest tails. So here is one for all you dojo toolkit users or wannabe’s. I started seeing the following in dojo scripts that I hadn’t seen before, and couldn’t find any specific comments about it.

;(function(d,$){ /* your code here */})(dojo, dojo.query)

The leading . . . → Read More: Dojo toolkit wrapper