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.

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Marcos Placona on March 6th, 2009

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes The jQuery UI team has marked a major milestone for the UI. Today they released version 1.7 with some nice updates, and also put their own dedicated blog live. I’ve been using the beta version for quite a long time now, but will be going for the 1.7, as [...]

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Marcos Placona on March 5th, 2009

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I have just came across this very nice service which promises to write Regular Expressions for you. We all know how painful writing a regular expression can be, and on this website, you can not only have the pattern created for you, but also have it translated into the [...]

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Marcos Placona on March 1st, 2009

I feel kinda bad to be calling this dirty, but mind you, I’m only using dirty as an expression, as it’s freaking sweet.
In fact, I’ve been having a few ideas about using drag & drop
for an open source application I’ve been thinking of, and decided to
play with jQuery UI to do that.
The fine guys at Packt have recently sent me a jQuery UI 1.6 book and I’ve been able to come up with this

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