Marcos Placona on October 4th, 2010

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes As previously mentioned on my other post, I’m working on improving usability and user experience within one of our applications. This application has a somehow complex authentication system managed by Fusebox. In one of our screens, we’ve replaced most of the page refreshes with ajax calls, so on the [...]

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Marcos Placona on October 2nd, 2010

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I found this two function yesterday while working on one of our applications. We are turning a very boring page into a full blown jQuery powered page. It’s got loads of functionalities being turned into Ajax calls to give the user a better experience. We are really taking usability [...]

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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.

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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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