Offline-Enabled Web Apps: The Future
I was reluctant to join the world of web development. I started in high school with a few sites and realized several things: Javascript sucks, Internet Explorer sucks; therefore web development sucks....
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I’m currently working on a rather simple Todo list application intended to meet the requirements I outlined earlier. I’m developing this as an offline-enabled webapp and while I haven’t gotten very far...
View ArticleValidate as you type in javascript
This is a common task, but has several facets that are easy to miss. I needed an input element that would validate as you type to ensure that an integer value was always entered. This was easily done...
View ArticleDjango and jquery.tmpl
Lately, I’ve been finding Django increasingly inappropriate for the web applications I develop. I have several complaints: the forms library doesn’t extend well to ajax requests, any extensive...
View ArticleRendering Django models to JSON
I recently discussed a simple template tag that allows rendering “raw” jquery templates inside a Django template, even though the syntax overlaps. A commenter asked for a Pypi package. It was such a...
View Articlecodemirror > editarea
So you’re working on some kind of webapp that needs some in-browser code editing functionality of some sort. You search google and discover that most folks are using editarea these days. You figure it...
View ArticleI can’t use CoffeeScript
I had some space between wrapping up my last contract on December 20, and starting my new job on January 16. I decided it was finally time to build a simple task management system, something I’ve...
View Articlepyjaco and jQuery
After giving up on CoffeeScript, I decided to play around with Pyjaco the Python to Javascript Compiler. While the code is readable, there is very little in the way of end-user documentation. I hope to...
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