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Tag Archives: javascript
IWPLS 2009: The Sanger Mouse Resources Portal - a Testbed for Collaborative Data Integration
Last week I enjoyed some time up in Edinburgh for the International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences (IWPLS ‘09), hosted at the e-Science Institute. It was a good workshop - there were good presentations, lively debates, and good social … Continue reading
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Tagged biomart, data-integration, javascript, presentation, sanger, solr, work
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Using Javascript to Make Relative Times Work With Caching
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
Blackbird - Javascript Logging Utility
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
Release: toggleController Plugin 1.0
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
Default Text Field Values That Disappear on Focus
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
Flot: Pure Javascript Plotting Library
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
Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables Revisited
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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Tagged ajax, catalyst, geek, javascript, perl, prototype, tablekit, tutorial
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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables
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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Tagged catalyst, javascript, perl, prototype, tablekit, tutorial
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Making Editable Tables With Catalyst and TableKit
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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Tagged ajax, catalyst, javascript, perl, prototype, tablekit, tutorial
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