How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

By Colleen, on June 6th, 2010%

AU-bg I had a kind of implied request to talk about the code in this jquery jigsaw puzzle. I sort of figured you can Firebug it from hereif you like, but maybe a little expository prose will enable you to focus on the salient parts of the script. (Sorry the old link got broken when I restructured this blog.)
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Embed.ly: One API to rule them all

By Colleen, on April 3rd, 2010%

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

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How to integrate a jQuery plugin into Yii Framework

By Colleen, on November 13th, 2009%

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 it just works. I used the star-rating plugin. If you have a rating for a piece of content represented as a number such as 3.642/4 on a scale of 0-4, it is much more Web 2.0 friendly if you represent that graphically. Star-rating uses pimped up radio buttons to represent this number as five fractional stars. It also does the front end of dynamic interactive ratings, and as soon as I get my ajax back-end working on that I’ll post that too. Since the actual code being typed in is illegible in the video, I have included it in this article.

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Dojo toolkit wrapper

By Colleen, on August 13th, 2009%

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

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Pssssst! Wanna learn JQuery?

By Colleen, on December 29th, 2008%

One of the reasons why I always cringed from web front end in the past is that presentation is so “dirty.”  We have all felt the flames.

HTML was never really designed as a presentation language
confusion of XHTML validations and the different DOCTYPES
CSS is supposed to be for design
browser wars and their . . . → Read More: Pssssst! Wanna learn JQuery?

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