I work for appendTo - The jQuery Company

25. August 2010
As you may or may not seen on Twitter the last 3 weeks or so, I accepted an offer to work with appendTo, LLC - The jQuery Company. I first met the CEO (Mike Hostetler) and President (Jonathan Sharp) of appendTo back in January while I was at the launch of jQuery 1.4 in Washington DC. After the unf... [More]

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@ElijahManor is Looking for a jQuery &| ASP.NET MVC Job

8. July 2010
If you haven’t heard already, I am looking for a new job opportunity… and yes, I realize the title of this blog is speaking in the 3rd person ;) I am primarily looking for a full-time position where I can either work in a Nashville office or work remotely from Nashville. I am a Microsoft MVP of AS... [More]

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jQuery jqGrid Plugin: Add, Edit, Delete with ASP.NET MVC

1. July 2010
  Introduction There are a lot of articles out there that show you how to integrate with the jQuery jqGrid Plugin from a listing, paging, sorting approach, but I haven’t seen many that show the integration with the add/edit/delete features that jqGrid offers. It turns out that it isn’t ver... [More]

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Filling Address Fields using HTML5 Geolocation and jQuery

29. June 2010
I saw an interesting tweet by Remy Sharp (@rem) the other day that sparked my interest. So, I proceeded to research the Geolocation API and look up various web services that allowed me to utilize JSONP requests from jQuery. Here is some pseudocode to describe what I came up with… if (Your bro... [More]

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BDD-Style QUnit Testing ASP.NET MVC’s jQuery Validation

21. June 2010
Client-Side Unit Testing The goal of this blog post is to show how you can utilize some helpful techniques to easily Unit Test your Web Application. In this post I will focus on Unit Testing the Client-Side validation rules that ASP.NET MVC generates. You can apply the following techniques to ... [More]

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My 7 jQuery Articles on Script Junkie

16. June 2010
Recently a brand new Microsoft website has been launched called Script Junkie that focuses on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more… Script Junkie Website Twitter (@script_junkie) Twitter List of Authors (@script_junkie/script-junkie-authors) Script Junkie RSS Feed Over the past 7 mon... [More]

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Switching to the Strategy Pattern in JavaScript

11. June 2010
A Typical Switch Statement Scenario Recently I’ve been working on some highly dynamic User Interfaces and at one point in the project I found my first reflex on a certain task to use a switch statement in JavaScript. Now, my previous training in studying the Design Patterns has told me that the sw... [More]

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Couch Potato 1.1 Bookmarklet – Expand/Collapse

4. June 2010
I updated the Couch Potato bookmarklet to add the ability to expand and collapse the details of each document from the list page by clicking the “+” to the left of the document key. You can also click the “Expand All Documents” action located in the right navigation column. The Bookmarklet To ... [More]

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Couch Potato Bookmarklet – Lazy Features for CouchDB’s Futon

28. May 2010
The Problem We’ve been using CouchDB in our current project at work and I’ve been using the CouchDB Futon manager more and more lately to create, edit, or delete documents. After a lot of test data gets into our document store, I end up needing to clear out the documents. I could Delete the who... [More]

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Opinionated ASP.NET MVC 2 Template Helpers

19. May 2010
If you have used ASP.NET MVC any, then you are probably aware of the MVC Contrib project hosted on CodePlex. It is a helpful library that provides useful tools that ASP.NET MVC doesn’t give you out of the box. Opinionated Input Builders One of the pieces that I really like is the Opinionated Inpu... [More]

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Tips using Firebug Lite and Full Screen with jsFiddle

28. April 2010
jsFiddle I’ve been using jsFiddle more and more to test and share JavaScript and jQuery code. Although I love that jsFiddle shows the HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Results window all at the same time, I also would love to somehow see the output of the console window in the User Interface. Depending ... [More]

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Stepping Down from The Official jQuery Podcast

27. April 2010
In case you haven’t heard from the end of the Rey Bomb #2 Episode of The Official jQuery Podcast, I announced that after 21 episodes I am stepping down as my role of co-host. Around the time I first joined the podcast I also started to become involved with some intense writing projects (as will b... [More]

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