- Exploring jQuery Selectors, Part 1
- Sep 4, 2012
- In the first of a 3-part series, developer Jeff Friesen defines jQuery's selectors, presents some generic syntax for working with them, and takes you on a tour of jQuery's basic and hierarchy selectors.
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- Learning JavaScript: Variables, Functions, and Loops
- Aug 30, 2012
- Tim Wright expands on variables, then moves on to creating functions, and last, goes over how to loop through data to autoexecute the same code block over and over.
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- Now for the Details: A First Look at Joomla! Templates
- Aug 28, 2012
- You are using Joomla! now and would like to know more about its template functions. This chapter gives you an overview of the structure of the templates—knowledge that will help you develop your own individualized template based on the default templates.
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- Dojo Made Easy
- Aug 22, 2012
- The Dojo toolkit is IBM’s JavaScript framework of choice. For those who have never or rarely used Dojo, the following sections will give some background and walk through a couple of examples of Dojo modules in XPages.
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- Creating Forms in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
- Aug 21, 2012
- This chapter provides a wealth of information to help you plan, design, and build forms in Dreamweaver CS6.
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- An Overview of CoffeeScript
- Aug 14, 2012
- David Chisnall follows on his look at Dart to examine a more conservative approach to improving on JavaScript as a web development language: CoffeeScript.
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- An Interview with Michael Hartl: Ruby on Rails, the "Magic" Problem, and the Higgs Boson
- Aug 13, 2012
- Russ Olsen talks to Michael Hartl, author of Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition, about teaching Rails, keeping pace with an ever changing technology stack and the Higgs boson (really!).
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- How to Use Functions and Arguments in CoffeeScript
- Aug 9, 2012
- Mark Bates looks at one of the most essential parts of any language, the function. Functions allow us to encapsulate reusable and discrete code blocks. Without functions our code would be one long, unreadable, and unmaintainable mess.
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- Introduction to the jQuery Mobile Framework
- Aug 8, 2012
- Phllip Dutson shows you how to add jQuery Mobile to a web page and how jQuery Mobile runs with the use of data roles. Learn to create a basic page with HTML and make it a mobile page using jQuery Mobile. Finally, he'll cover the pageinit function and the difference between it and the standard jQuery $(document).ready() function.
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- An Overview of Dart, Part 2
- Aug 6, 2012
- David Chisnall continues his look at Dart, focusing on some of the features that make the language distinct from JavaScript.
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- Testing Your JavaScript/CoffeeScript, Part 1 of 2: Setting Up a Test Framework in Ruby on Rails
- Aug 6, 2012
- Are you part of the vast majority of people who don't bother with testing their JavaScript code? Mark Bates, author of Programming in CoffeeScript, has written in JavaScript for years, but admits that he only recently began testing it. In part 1 of this series, see why your familiar arguments against testing your JavaScript no longer wash.
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- An Overview of Dart, Part 1
- Jul 30, 2012
- David Chisnall takes an initial look at Dart, a language from Google designed as a possible replacement to JavaScript in for rich web applications.
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- Six Handy Joomla! Programming Tips
- Jun 18, 2012
- Mark Dexter, coauthor of Joomla! Programming, provides some handy tricks to save you time and help you write secure, powerful code in your next Joomla programming project.
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- HTML5 Canvas Essentials
- Jun 7, 2012
- David Geary introduces you to the magical canvas element in HTML5, which lets you do amazing things in a browser. You can implement image panning; an interactive magnifying glass; a paint application that runs in any self-respecting browser and that also runs on an iPad; several animations and games, including an industrial-strength pinball game; image filters; and many other web applications that in another era were almost entirely the realm of Flash.
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- Get Started Using Spring MVC and Hibernate for Your Java EE Applications
- Jun 5, 2012
- Programming expert Jesse Smith shows the easy way to get started with the popular Spring MVC framework with Hibernate. Learn how to build a simple application with a registration page.
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- Working with Code Snippets in Microsoft Expression Web 4 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- May 25, 2012
- Kathleen Anderson will show you how to work with the new Code Snippets Panel, create your own code snippets, sync them with all your PCs running SP2, and share them with other Expression Web 4 users.
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- A Website Is Really Just Text: Build One in 5 Minutes
- May 21, 2012
- This chapter starts with a blank site and one HTML page and works its way from there to a fully functional site.
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- Extending Joomla! with Plugins
- Apr 26, 2012
- In this chapter, Mark Dexter and Louis Landry examine how plugins work and the different types of events that can trigger plugins. They look at some core plugins and then create their own plugin, based on the user registration form they created previously.
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- JavaScript: The Web Assembly Language?
- Apr 16, 2012
- People are increasingly generating JavaScript from other languages instead of writing it directly, making JavaScript the assembly language of the web. David Chisnall looks at the language's suitability to this role.
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- XPages Portable Command Guide: Working with the Domino Server Console and the Notes OSGi Console
- Mar 19, 2012
- This chapter outlines the most relevant commands available to you as an XPages developer via the Domino server console and the Notes OSGi console.
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