My first experience with “designing” web pages was in the early 90s. I was still in elementary school and HTML was the “big” thing; those were simpler times filled with gifs and <marquee>. Fast forward to the late 2000s…to say that web development technologies have “changed” would be an understatement. All of a sudden I [...]
First, a bit of news. Because of my prior experiences with Django, I’ve been contacted by the wonderful guys at Packt Publishing. They’ve been generous enough to offer me a first-hand preview of a new book, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Jonathan Hayward I’ll be doing a review of the book very soon, [...]
If you’re building a webapp that has user registration, you’ll probably want to keep track of various tidbits of user information such as: username, e-mail, city, country etc. Designing the registration page to take in a user’s name and e-mail is easy, just give them an input box and let them type whatever they want [...]
If you haven’t read the live blog on our visit to Toronto Code Camp 2010, I highly encourage you to scan through it here: http://www.pioverpi.net/2010/05/01/toronto-code-camp-live-blog/ I should warn you though, I have a bad habit of shooting my mouth off without thinking too much about the impact of my words. In fact, I am a [...]
In JQuery, you can use the $.post() function to make a client-side AJAX request (more info here). If you want to POST JSON objects to your server, you basically want to do something like this: $.post( URL, [data], [CALLBACK FUNCTION], “json”) In the project that I’m working on, I’m rendering a table using JQuery + [...]