Category Archives: AJAX
Professional Courtesy
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post titled Parsing XML: jQuery vs ExtJS. If you don’t feel like reading it, the point of that post is that I was (still am) frustrated by the fact that ExtJS doesn’t … Continue reading
Ext-Doc: ExtJS-style JavaScript Documentation
A while back, I posted about my struggle to find a good JavaScript documentation tool. Over the past week, I began exploring one more option which is very promising. Ext-Doc is a JavaScript documentation tool which creates by far the … Continue reading
Parsing XML: jQuery vs. ExtJS
If you follow my blog, you’ve noticed that I constantly talk about ExtJS. I use it extensively at my office, and I know the API (for version 2.2.1) about as well as anyone not working for their company. I recently … Continue reading
JavaScript Meetup – Friday 6/12/09
One of the hardest thing about living in the suburbs is that the overwhelming majority of computer developers live in the city. Although I live in the Chicago area, this is undoubtedly true of any city and it makes it … Continue reading
Recent AJAX Project
Before I left for vacation, I finished the latest-round of edits to a project I’ve been working on. I’ve received word that the code is live and I think it’s worth bragging about. College Movers Inc. is (obviously) a moving … Continue reading
JavaScript Unit Testing in ExtJS
*** Update 12/21/09: This is now an open source project available on Google Code! *** I’ve been using ExtJS for almost a year now and I’ve built quite the library of custom extensions. As many JavaScript developers will tell you, … Continue reading
WhyILoveChicago.com Update
Over the past week, I’ve spent some time updating WhyILoveChicago.com with a much-needed facelift. For starters, the site is now coded in .NET! I also made the template much wider than before, and started promoting the various parntnerships I’ve formed … Continue reading
You know you’re doing a good job when…
You know you’re doing a good job when you show the CEO the newest feature of your application, and his response is: Holy shit!!! Over the past two weeks, my team has been finishing the latest iteration of our software … Continue reading
Chicago Ajax Developers launches!
After finally finding some free time over the past few weeks, I managed to finish a preliminary version of Chicago Ajax Developers. The site will be the homepage for an ExtJS user group that I’m in the process of starting. … Continue reading
Ext Conference 2009 – Day 3
Ironically, I think I got more out of one presentation on the last day (a half-day, mind you) than I did in any single session during the previous two. Jamie Avins presented “Application Deployment”, in which he described a number … Continue reading
