Joe Zim's JavaScript Corner

2012/03/22

Wijmo: A More Expansive jQuery UI

jQuery UI is one of the cooler things to come out with jQuery. It allows you to easily install widgets and simple capabilities onto your site quickly and easily. ThemeRoller makes it even more fun by allowing you to style the widgets in nearly limitless ways. There is one place where jQuery UI is lacking though: the number of widgets it provides. This is where Wijmo comes in.

JavaScript

2012/03/19

5 Tips to Make Your jQuery Plugins Awesome

jQuery plugins are popping up all over the place and just about everyone is trying to get in on the action. What determines whether a plugin is good or bad for you is largely up to your opinion and your requirements, but there are few things that you can do when writing your plugins to guarantee at least a bit of quality and standardization in your plugins that everyone who looks at your plugin code will be thankful for.

JavaScript

2012/03/12

How to Build a Custom Carousel With jQuery and Roundabout

Sliders and Carousels are one of the coolest ways to display information on websites. They can contain tons of information in a smaller area, and the animation of automatic sliding and the large, beautiful images that are usually included draw the user’s attention. Well, I’ll show you how to set up an awesome carousel with jQuery and the Roundabout plugin.

JavaScript

2012/02/27

JavaScript Cookies: Yummy

Most of the time cookies are handled by the server using languages like PHP or Ruby, but there are times when using JavaScript to handle the cookies is the best option. Cookies are a strange beast in JavaScript and many developers don’t know how to use them. That’s all about to change!

JavaScript

2012/02/09

JavaScript Templating: Adding HTML the Right Way

If you’ve been using JavaScript for any semi-substantial amount of time, you’ve probably had to add some HTML to your page dynamically. If you haven’t then you’re missing out on some of the greatest power of JavaScript. There’s a problem though: It’s a pain in the buttocks to write HTML code inside a JavaScript string – especially when it’s a large amount of HTML and/or some of the tags have attributes – and adding in values from variables. It’s just a giant mess of quotes and plus signs.

JavaScript

2012/02/04

JZ Publish/Subscribe Version 1.2 Released

It’s a great day here at Joe Zim’s JavaScript Blog and surely a great day for the users of the JZ Publish/Subscribe jQuery plugin. This plugin has now been updated to version 1.2 and has gained probably the best feature it could gain at this point in its life and something that, arguably, maybe should have already been included with the plugin.

JavaScript

2012/02/02

How and Why JZ Publish / Subscribe Should Be Used

If you don’t already know, JZ Publish/Subscribe is a jQuery plugin that I developed to add a simple, but powerful Pub/Sub feature to the jQuery utility functions. I’m guessing there are some people out there who don’t understand what Pub/Sub is, how to use it, or why to use it. I’m here to bring some answers and give a specific example of how JZ Publish/Subscribe can be used.

JavaScript

2012/01/10

New Projects Section

All of you JavaScript lovers out there who have been following this blog recently will probably know already that I recently released a jQuery plugin to add Publish/Subscribe functionality. The Announcement was posted just a few days ago. Well, I decided I can’t just leave the information about the plugin in a post that will fade into the ages of the archive, so I created a Projects page, which you can access via the link on the main navigation bar.

JavaScript

2012/01/07

New jQuery Plugin: Publish/Subscribe

I recently started looking through Dojo because another blog writer seemed to highly recommend it while saying there’s no real need to use jQuery. Dojo seemed quite powerful, probably having DOM manipulation on par with jQuery, but only if you required the correct extra modules. Also the syntax for Dojo is far more verbose. Still it seemed like Dojo had something that jQuery didn’t, so I sought to find what jQuery was lacking. It turns out that the only thing that Dojo (excluding Dijit and it’s other separate libraries) had that jQuery didn’t was a publish/subscribe module.

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