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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...
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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...
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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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