The second in the Backbone.js model and view walkthrough series. A little more detail in this tutorial about how Basic Auth tokens and custom http headers are sent to the RoR backend
This example introduces two new Model actions (swap and delete), illustrating how such actions can be handled within a Model’s View.
This is an extension of the example found here: http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/docs/5.html
As the big year in web development continues HTML5 is getting even closer to becoming more standard. This has been helped by Google’s Chrome browser has scoring high marks on an the HTML 5 compatibility test according to geektechnica.com.
It is an interesting site where you can read about some of new developments in HTML 5 and try the browser compatibility test page where you can see how your browser stacks up out of a total score of 160 points. 
It was interesting to note that Chrome finished first with 137/160, Safari second with 113/160, Opera third with 102/160, Firefox a sluggish 100/160, and the usual suspect Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8), Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9 )scoring a blazing 19/160 points.
The finals results were: Continue reading
So i have to admit that one of my favorite new applications is Screener. What screenr allows you to do is to easily, quickly and painlessly record a desktop session, whether you are on a Mac, PC, or linux computer using a java applet (which is pretty fast).
Once you record your screencast, you can then manage and administer your own channel similar to a Youtube or Vimeo channel. You get the benefit of a sleek player that clearly distinguishes itself from the rest, simple and has basic sharing capabilities.
Here is a demo by Netuts of an editable list that takes advantage of HTML 5 and the localStorage attribute and works with compatible browsers. Continue reading
It seems one of the highest keyword searches in Google is “jQuery Google Maps” so i figured i may as well continue and make a series of plugins that make Google Maps and jQuery play together.
This time is the jMapping Google Maps plugin. So here is the usual skinny on the features and background:
So as i was working on getting the site updated and ready, i was going through some links and just checking out some resources. Finally i stumbled upon, what may be for me the most exciting Jquery plugin in recent memory!!!
What could be so great? well it is this jQuery plugin called the jParallax. I think to really understand its best to answer the age old questions: Who, What, Why, Where, How, When. Continue reading
If you have ever had to work with PHP the luxury of becoming used to simple things like request parameter processing can be lost. Sometimes you have no alternative if you are working with a simple HTML file.
Hence comes in this nifty little jquery plugin, it allows you to grab parameters from the url and then process them accordingly. One way that this could be useful is if you wanted to detect a page state or to display or hide an element depending on the state.
You can download the plugin here and its also fairly light too which is good.
Here is an example of the source, its relatively short so i am posting it here and you can give it a try: Continue reading