Ben Griswold on December 18th, 2008

jTemplates is a jQuery plugin and template engine for Javascript.  If you keep up with Dave Ward and/or Rick Strahl you may already be familiar with jTemplates as they have both highlighted the plugin on their respective bolgs.  About 1.5 months ago, however, I got into the action and started using jTemplates in conjunction with [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 16th, 2008

As javascript libraries, particularly jQuery, increase in popularity so do web techniques using AJAX and JSON.
Have you ever seen this code?  It is front and back of an ASPX file with the single responsibility to return JSON data per an AJAX request.
GetDataPage.aspx
<%@ Page Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true”
CodeFile=”GetDataPage.aspx.cs” Inherits=”GetDataPage” %>
<%–
This [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 13th, 2008

FlexBox is a jQuery plugin that is intended to be a very flexible replacement for HTML textboxes and dropdowns using AJAX to retrieve and bind JSON data. 
Okay. Now what is FlexBox exactly?
It is a dynamic control which can present itself as a combobox with per-result HTML templates, a suggest box (like Google search) or [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 11th, 2008

I read a bit of “jQuery in Action” a couple of weeks back.  Actually all I read was the appendix which is aptly titled “JavaScript that you need to know but might not!”  This short chapter very concisely covers JavaScript concepts which should be required learning for all web developers. 
If you are an experienced JavaScript [...]

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