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Marcos Placona on May 17, 2013

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes No catches here, all you need to do to get a free e-copy of my new book jQuery Drag-and-Drop Grids How-to (UK , US) Is read the book, and then write a review of it on your blog. And I’m not asking you to write a good (or biased) [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 10, 2013

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes A few months ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about a new project they had in mind and thought I’d be a good fit for. The challenge was to write a book about one single topic that would enable readers to learn and become proficient on that topic [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 26, 2012

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes I’ve been asked to come up with an image slider prototype for something new we were doing at work. I would generally just find a suitable sliding jQuery plug-in and get the developers to use it. However, this time, there were two very peculiar requirements necessary for this slider [...]

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Marcos Placona on October 4, 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 2, 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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