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JQuery on Rails

The JRails library is a useful tool for programmers working on Rails.

jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for JavaScript functionality using the lighter jQuery library.

I plan to start programming with Rails soon so I’ll definitely be adding this to my arsenal.
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By Rey
January 5, 2008

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Learning Adobe Air

Jonathan Snook has a great article on 24ways.org about creating an Adobe Air application using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This is a great way for web developers who don’t know much or don’t care about Flash to get started.

I’d like to push this further by creating a desktop app that can also live on the web. Maybe even communicate with the desktop version.

You can check out Snook’s article here.
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Posted in Adobe Air, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, Quick Link, Resources. Tagged with , , , , , .

By Henry B.
December 19, 2007

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Scripting for the iPhone

There’s a lot of buzz in the web development community about developing for the iPhone. I’ve been following this topic since the Apple announcement last month.

I’m all for it. This is a big step for web development on portable devices. I hope other pda and smartphone makers follow Apple’s lead. I took a quick look at the developer documentation today and found some interesting things I wanted to point out.

  • Integrate phone calls, maps and emails using links. Mail and map links are not different from what we use on normal browsers (“mailto:anemail@domain.com” and ” http://maps.google.com?address”) but phone links use a new url format which starts with “tel:”.
    Here’s an example:

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    <a href="tel:1-123-444-5555">Call Me</a>
  • Assign an iPhone style sheet with the link tag. 
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    <link 
  media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
  href="iPhone.css"
  type="text/css"
  rel="stylesheet" />

    This is new to me. Seems like its part of the CSS3 recommendation.

  • iPhone doesn’t support window.showModalDialog(), mouse-overs, hover styles, tool tips, java applets, flash, plugin installation or custom x.509 certificates.
  • PDFs, Cookies and user-initiated window-open calls are supported but there’s a limit of 8 pages (8 open windows) in page view.

Here are some iPhone third party apps:
http://www.launchpadhq.com/
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/502-ta-da-list-for-iphone
http://digg.com/iphone

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By Henry B.
July 12, 2007

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Tips to Build PHP Web App in 66.5hrs

Here’s a blog post about one guy building an full blown dating site called Mingle2 in 66.5 hours. I’m not sure how good the application is but the tips are pretty good.
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Posted in Quick Link.

By Henry B.
June 7, 2007

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YUI Theater

Checkout this post on the YUI blog about JavaScript videos in the YUI Theater. Its a great intro to the fundamentals of JavaScript and some more advanced topics if you check out the related videos also presented by Douglas Crockford.

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Posted in Quick Link.

By Henry B.
May 15, 2007

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Welcome to a blog about JavaScript!

This will be my third blog attempt. I’m not much of a writer so I decided to create a blog about my main niche… coding web sites. I don’t claim to be a web coding expert and I don’t want this blog to go in that direction. The main reason I started this blog is for the knowledge sharing and feedback from all the great brains out there.

I hope to build this blog into something useful for the average web coder who’s looking to expand his/her knowledge in JavaScript, CSS, XHTML and other web technologies. Feel free to contact us with any feedback you may have about the blog or anything else.
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Posted in Site News.

By Henry B.
May 12, 2007

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