International Code Sharing
Posted on May 04, 2012 by john3 Comments- - - - -A Swede, and Italian/American, and a … Ward Bell walk into a bar … OK, so I don’t exactly know what Ward Bell is (besides a great friend and brilliant colleague). And what’s he doing walking into a bar with a Swede? And how did they do that since Ward lives in San Francisco, CA and Hans Fjällemark lives in Sweden? And why did they invite me, the Italian/American, since I don’t drink? They went to … more
New Course on JsRender Templating Fundamentals with JavaScript
Posted on May 01, 2012 by john1 Comment- - - - -Super fast rendering, code-less tag syntax, and no DOM nor jQuery dependency. That’s JsRender! My latest course JsRender Fundamentals is now available at Pluralsight! Learn how to build fast, robust, and maintainable Web applications with JavaScript, jQuery and JsRender: the successor to jQuery Templates. Free Preview: Course Description: JsRender (the successor to jQuery Templates) is a … more
Simple JavaScript Notifications with toastr
Posted on May 01, 2012 by john13 Comments- - - - -My friend Hans Fjällemark and I have been collaborating on some JavaScript libraries lately and we decided it was time to release toastr, the first of them, on github. Our collaborative organization is under https://github.com/CodeSeven toastr is a simple JavaScript toast notification library that is small, easy to use, and extendable. It allows you to create simple toasts with HTML5 and … more
2 Months with the ASUS ZenBook UX31E
Posted on April 30, 2012 by john2 Comments- - - - -It’s been over 2 months since I’ve been using my ASUS ZenBook UX31E out and about for blogging, surfing, coding, and presentations. I wrote about the slick look of the UX31E and my (poor) opinion of the keyboard and the screen last month and frankly that has not changed. However, I have found the UX31E to be ideal for several situations over that time, so I’ll focus my wrap up on what this … more
New Article on JsRender Templating
Posted on April 11, 2012 by john2 Comments- - - - -Super fast rendering, easy to pick up, no DOM nor jQuery dependency. That’s JsRender. Check out this month’s Client Insight column where I cover the basics of JsRender. And be on the lookout for my new full length course on JsRender, coming to Pluralsight in May 2012. JsRender is the successor to jQuery Templates created by Boris Moore. It brings a new templating library to HTML5 development that … more
Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone Unboxing
Posted on April 06, 2012 by john3 Comments- - - - -I just activated my Nokia Lumia 900 running the latest Windows Phone OS. I purchased the cyan colored Lumia … or blue to me I’ll post a thorough review later after I get more hands on time with it, but this post is all about first impressions. In short … WOW! Tip: Click on the photos for the full size versions. If you want to see my activation process experience, you can check it out here. It … more
Activating the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone
Posted on April 06, 2012 by john9 Comments- - - - -I received my Nokia Lumia 900 today and was very excited to open it. I had 3 goals for today: 1) activate it 2) make sure my unlimited data plan was still in place 3) get my apps to the new phone I accomplished 1 and 2 and I am currently working on 3. I’ll be doing an unboxing post shortly after this here. Disclaimer: this review is purely about the ordering, activation and setup process. So this … more
Learn About External Templates with KnockoutJS
Posted on April 04, 2012 by john1 Comment- - - - -Templating is a killer feature of many technologies that helps reduce code and make it more manageable and adaptable. Knockout.js has a native template engine (or you can tie in a custom templating engine), but often I like to go a bit further and load my templates from external files. In this month’s Papa’s Perspective column in Visual Studio Magazine I cover the Knockout.js External Template … more
9 jQuery Samples
Posted on April 03, 2012 by john3 Comments- - - - -These are the jsfiddle samples that Dan Wahlin and I covered in our jQuery Fundamentals workshop at DevConnections last week. These were samples we wrote on the fly in jsfiddle.net and wanted to share. Enjoy! Additional jQuery samples covering selectors, DOM manipulation, Ajax techniques, as well as sample applications can be found here. You can view my other sessions from DevConnections … more
Whirlwind Tour of Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout
Posted on April 03, 2012 by john0 Comments- - - - -This is the Whirlwind Tour of Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout presentation I gave at the Spring 2012 DevConnections conference in Las Vegas and in Orlando Code Camp (both last week). It covers some of the key topics you need to know to build web applications using the MVVM pattern with JavaScript and jQuery that consume json data, use json objects in Javascript, … more
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