You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
Jeremy Jones, writing for O’Reilly states “I was compelled enough to give TurboGears a spin. Why? I watched the TurboGears video.”. As much as it pains me to admit it, that’s largely what got me to try TurboGears too.
I’ve already written about searching for a Web application framework, and last weekend I spent most of Friday night and all [...]
I’ve been exploring TurboGears since Saturday when I first ran across it.
It’s amazing just how quick it is to create a small Web application. I haven’t yet expanded my scope beyond small samples, but I can easily see how this framework (or mega-framework as it’s being called by others) will be invaluable for a project [...]
I just finished watching the 20 minute screen cast of TurboGears. Now I’m eager to download it and try it out.
I actually spent most of this weekend looking for a decent Web development environment — I don’t do Perl or PHP (I think they’re both craptacular languages) — and although I’d rather use JavaScript on [...]
Typing out document.getElementById can get a little tedious after a while. One of the best alternatives I’ve seen takes advantage of a little known feature of Javascript (and oddly enough C/C++ and possible Java): the dollar sign ($) is a valid identifier character.
Consider the following code:
function searchWasSubmitted() { var e= $(”searchField”); [...]
In a recent article on his Web site, Derek Powazek recommends embracing the bottom of the page. I’ve whipped up a redesigned version of this site taking these ideas to heart.
I’m afraid I’ve plagiarised a little too freely: I doubt anyone would really want to send us anything by snail-mail. And I had to work [...]