Category Archives: javascript

Using Javascript to Make Relative Times Work With Caching

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Daz

A great idea from the folks over at 37 signals. It’s easy to think that the relative-time style of “this comment was written 15 minutes ago” is incompatible with caching. How are you supposed to cache something if the text … Continue reading →

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Blackbird - Javascript Logging Utility

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Daz

Found this while trawling the feeds this morning - looks like quite a useful utility. It offers a nice alternative to Firebug (when testing in browsers other than Firefox). Blackbird via

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Release: toggleController Plugin 1.0

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Daz

I’ve just spent the last week on a Javascript and Ajax course (thanks to work for footing the bill)! As such I come armed with some newfound javascript knowledge! Here’s the first fruits of my labour - a very simple … Continue reading →

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Default Text Field Values That Disappear on Focus

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Daz

You will have noticed this effect out on your travels on the internet - a text input field has some default text in it (often in a slightly dimmed colour), and when you click on the text box, default text … Continue reading →

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Flot: Pure Javascript Plotting Library

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Daz

Yet more chart drawing goodness. This takes a different approach to the Google model by generating really good looking graphs all on the client-side in javascript - very nice! Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces … Continue reading →

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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables Revisited

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Daz

TableKit is a great javascript library for making your HTML tables fully editable. However, one problem is that you can’t add or delete rows from the tables… I came up with a solution to this not so long ago, but … Continue reading →

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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Daz

This post has now been updated. Please head over to the new post for something better… Following on from my previous post on how to integrate the excellent TableKit into your Catalyst webapp (to make your data tables dynamically editable), … Continue reading →

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Making Editable Tables With Catalyst and TableKit

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Daz

Catalyst is an MVC web-development framework for Perl, very similar in concepts, ideas (and even some of the implementation) to Ruby on Rails. I’m using Catalyst a lot in my job now, and one of the first challenges that i’ve … Continue reading →

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