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Spring Web Flow and jQuery Caching
A while ago as I was helping a client re-write a computationally heavy backend system that had a Spring Web Flow wizard interface. The system would retrieve all orders of gas shipments for that day ...
Extending the jQuery prototype to access Bootstrap components
Recently while transitioning some pages from jQuery-UI to Bootstrap, I found that one feature I missed (or rather, couldn’t find in the documentation) in Bootstrap is the ability to get references to the component object. ...
Open jQuery prettyPhoto API to an image other than the first one
prettyPhoto is neat little jQuery plugin, that makes it easy to do lightbox style image (or “videos, flash, YouTube, iframes and ajax”) overlays on your page. Let’s say I have 5 images that I want ...
Use JQuery Mobile’s Tools Suite to help you debug and improve your JQuery Mobile application
JQuery Mobile provides a set of 3 "out of the box" scripts to help you gain insight and understanding into current global configuration values, page events, and page change timings in your application....
An approach to processing dynamic one-to-many forms with Grails 2.1
I was recently faced with a (rather common) problem: process a form submission containing fields for a ‘parent’ and several ‘child’ records. For example, a form to create a Team record along with its many ...
Sep 12, 2012
Embrace JavaScript Frameworks
When developing web applications, it's very common for a confusing blend of JavaScript and framework code to make its way into the code....
Sep 4, 2012
Rendering JSP Versus Static HTML Completed With AJAX
Intelligent and careful use of JavaScript can enhance the user experience by providing not only the client-side functionality, but by completing the content....
Jul 31, 2012
Easy Inter-window Communications with jQuery
It may happen that you need to open a second browser window to help your web application perform some additional action that you don't want to leave your current page to do....
Jul 10, 2012
Dynamic HTML Entities in Form Inputs
There's a little trouble putting JavaScript variable values into HTML form elements when those values contain HTML encoded characters. Here's a simple solution to that problem....
Jun 18, 2012
JQuery UI Datepicker IE focus fix
The jquery ui datepicker control is quite slick and easy to use, and as you see here it can be customized through various events. At my current client we have multiple controls on the page ...