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• Working With XML, jQuery, and JavaScript, published on Sunday, 29 August 2010 4:44PM

  A recent requirement of mine was to convert large CSV files to XML, and then build an accompanying interface to update & manage the data.  jQuery was most useful for traversing & manipulating the large DOM’s, but I did run across a few gotcha’s worthy of discussion.  There doesn’t seem to be much info on [...]

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=886
• jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget, published on Tuesday, 06 July 2010 10:53PM

  This is the successor and port of my original jQuery MultiSelect Plugin to a jQuery UI widget. While both will actively be maintained, I highly recommend you use this version over the plugin version. It has a more robust feature set, is faster, and is much more flexible. MultiSelect turns an ordinary HTML select control [...] Related posts:

  1. jQuery MultiSelect Plugin w/ ThemeRoller Support
  2. A jQuery UI Growl/Ubuntu-like Notification Widget
  3. Tips for Developing jQuery UI 1.8 Widgets

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=832
• jQuery “Create” Event, published on Monday, 14 June 2010 12:12PM

  The livequery plugin allows us to bind events and general logic to all current and future elements. After the inclusion of live() in 1.3, an expansion of supported live event types in 1.4, and the introduction of delegate() in 1.4.2, the livequery plugin has more or less become deprecated. However, it still holds a special [...]

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=725
• A jQuery UI Growl/Ubuntu-like Notification Widget, published on Thursday, 13 May 2010 12:11AM

  Update 7/6/2010: version 1.4.1 is out! There are about a dozen other plugins out there that do this already, except most seem to come with an enormous footprint: 10-12k of code, X-number of images, and roughly 1000 options to support every plausible use case. For other minimalists like myself out there, here’s one built off [...] Related posts:

  1. jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget
  2. Tips for Developing jQuery UI 1.8 Widgets

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=664
• Tips for Developing jQuery UI 1.8 Widgets, published on Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:33PM

  I’m wrapping up my first jQuery UI widget (see multiselect on GitHub) and thought it would be useful to share some notes I took on the widget factory & widget development in general.  I personally found development on the factory to be quite enjoyable; a lot of functionality is available right out the box (custom events, [...]

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=543
• A New And Improved jQuery Idle Timeout Plugin, published on Monday, 12 April 2010 12:42PM

  This is a followup to an older post of mine about notifying & prompting your users for action once they’ve become idle. I’ve since re-written and abstracted the logic, creating a much more useful & customizable plugin. The main issue with my first implementation, which I’ve addressed in this update, is that the server was [...] Related posts:

  1. Creating a Mint.com Style Idle Logout Timer Using jQuery
  2. jQuery: modifying the submit button when a form is submitted

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=492
• A Quick Gotcha With CFML & JSON Serialization, published on Monday, 29 March 2010 12:39PM

  ColdFusion internally represents structure keys in uppercase when the keys are created using dot notation. Dot notation is typically how programmers write their code and is considered to be best practice when working with structures. To the same effect, ColdFusion’s implementation of serializeJSON() serializes your object with respect to case; therefore, we might end up [...]

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=473
• Visualizing Your Z-Index Stacks with jQuery, published on Thursday, 18 March 2010 12:59PM

  If you’ve ever found yourself debugging multiple elements stacked with z-index, and wish you could visualize their boundaries and stack positions without trying to remember numbers, this one is for you. The picture on the right pretty much sums it up. “Visualize Stack” as I call it applies different shades of a color to elements [...]

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=379
• FamFamFam Silk Icon Set in Base64 Encoding, published on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 3:05PM

  This one can be filed under both “total impractical” and “somewhat useful”. For those who haven’t heard of this trick before, base64 encoding enables you to embed binary image data directly into your HTML or CSS source. Therefore, instead of the browser requesting two files from the server – the CSS file and the image [...] Related posts:

  1. CFIMAGE resize after CFFILE upload

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=348
• jQuery MultiSelect Plugin w/ ThemeRoller Support, published on Monday, 01 February 2010 2:47PM

  07-09-2010 – This plugin has been re-written! I’ve re-written this plugin using the jQuery UI widget factory. As such, a number of new features have been added, bugs fixed, and performance issues addressed. While this version will still be supported, I highly recommend you use this new version instead! I’ve been working on a multiple [...] Related posts:

  1. jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget
  2. jQuery Related (Dependent) Selects Plugin
  3. jQuery: modifying the submit button when a form is submitted

  http://www.erichynds.com/?p=240

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