Marcos Placona on August 21st, 2009

I’ve decided to get back at jQuery draggable and droppable to a personal project I’ve been working on. In the past, I’ve demonstrated how to do basic drag and drop, but this time I needed something a little bit more elaborated.
I won’t spoil my personal project by showing what it id before it
gets done, but I’ll show here an example of what I wanted to accomplish
which will use pretty much the same functionality, but in other
application.
The idea is:

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Marcos Placona on April 25th, 2009

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg

This book is aimed to jQuery beginners, or for those with more experience who need an extra help on that difficult situations.

You probably read my review of Learning jQuery back in 2008 where I described every single feature on each of the chapters.

This time, I’m not going to describe every single chapter, as I think it would be pretty much a repetition of the previous review, but adding a few things. I still think this book is a must if you want to learn jQuery, or even if you are familiar with the library.

Continue reading about Learning jQuery 1.3 – Book Review

Marcos Placona on March 20th, 2009

The jQuery UI team have done it again. This Friday is only a point release to the jQuery UI 1.7 released last week but with some great improvements.

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Marcos Placona on March 13th, 2009

Reading time: < 1 minute The jQuery UI team has just started a weekly series on what’s happening with jQuery UI. They will be posting a sort of digest on a weekly basis talking about releases, and news. This week they came up with a list of companies using jQuery UI: ESPN Capcom Europe LiveSlices [...]

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Marcos Placona on March 11th, 2009

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Dan Wellman


This is another of my reviews about a jQuery book. I keep getting more
and more excited at every new release, and the more I read about it,
the more I think this is really a great library.

As you might have noticed,
on the past few months I’ve been actively using jQuery on all of my
projects, and recently at work, we even replaced most of our Spry stuff with jQuery. I think Spry is a great library, but jQuery is simply easier to use, and a lot lighter.

Continue reading about jQuery UI 1.6 – Book Review