I was thrilled to find Cory LaViska’s jQuery Context Menu Plugin a few months ago. In very little time, I was able to integrate the context menu with the jQuery Treeview. I quickly had a really pretty user interface which took full advantage of limited real estate. And guess what. As promised, the plugin worked [...]
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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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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 minimal code [...]
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) [...]
I’m thinking it’s about time I start providing downloadable sample code along with my posts. Rather than copying and pasting code snippets into your own solution, it might be nice to alternatively download a compressed sample project. The Insert File Plugin for Windows Live Writer has been around for a while. Here’s my attempt at [...]
UPDATE: I disabled threaded comments on 3/17/2009 when I updated my theme. I can still recommend the nest comments plugin (below) as I used it for years, but I no longer have anything to show for it. To be honest, I am very surprised that threaded (or nested) comments don’t come out-of-the-box with a fresh [...]
Earlier this month, I answered the question, What is Social Bookmarking? At the time, JohnnyCoder.com provided hand-coded links to only two sites: Del.icio.us and Digg. Since then, I discovered Cal Evan’s WP-Notable Plugin and, as you can see, the number of links to social bookmarking and networking sites has increase a bit. WP-Notable is configurable [...]
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I know what you are thinking. Why would any self-respecting blogger want to restrict access to site? Well, as it works out, there are two logical, completely reasonable, ummm, reasons. You are a private blogger writing about sensitive topics which may cause problems in your professional and/or personal life. In this case, it would make [...]