#Jquery

My continued use of My Fitness Pal (nutrition tracking app) has veered dangerously close to obsession! Literally, it’s become something of a game. I’m constantly looking at the details on every food and considering how it will effect my “stats” (seriously, as if I’m an MMO character or something)! Ultimately, that’s a good thing I guess. This past weekend alone I’ve been doing REALLY really well with my eating. I have a great schedule of meals lined up for the week too, with high protein days stacked for Tuesday and Thursday (Crossfit days). [Read More]

Busted my ass in a major workout last night at Crossfit. The regular class is NO JOKE! Oh yeah, and Obama won (again)!!! Decided to try another stab at Angular.js this week. Going to try to lab something up at work using it, something real-world like article comments or something. Continued working on the new Nextgen.com framework. Got the shell set up pretty nicely and did a lot of organization of all Javascript and CSS and how it will be integrated globally and sitewide. [Read More]

After a discussion about the advantages of N-tier archictecture with a coworker and finally truly understanding it all – I rewrote the backend for “Secret” website to fully utilize a Data, Services, Domain, UI architecture. Now it is coming together quite nicely. I’ve completed the basic groundwork for most of the backend, with the Data layer completed, the Repositories at a good start with most basic CRUD functionality complete, and the Services layer tapping into those repositories. [Read More]

Just learned that jQuery’s .live() should now be replaced with: $(document).on(event,selector, function (e) {});

Started coding “Secret” website (still not happy with the name)!! Going with a basic 3 tier structure for now – Domain, Services, and UX. Made good progress so far on the Domain model, and the underlying foundation for the Services layer. Found and worked with a great tiny little jQuery plugin for working with cookies. Was super easy to use and implemented, and even worked with jQuery 1.3 in a legacy system I needed it in! [Read More]

Learned to use the ?? operator when checking for null.  Use when you want something to = something else only when something else is not null:

var myvar = something_else ?? “default_value”;

myvar will be set to something_else only if something_else is not null, otherwise it will be “default_value” instead.

Fresh on the heels of my failure with Knockout, I continued my OOP and data-bound JavaScript development. I also discovered Angular.js this week (by Google). This looks like it’s a much cleaner and easier (read: less clunky) way of doing what Knockout.js does. It also looks like this might be pretty easy for me to implement into my existing project. Also, from a staying power perspective, it’s probably safe to assume since Google is officially backing (and created) that it will be around for a while. [Read More]

This week was all about Knockout.js and my seemingly total lack of understanding of javascript and jquery! After struggling with Knockout (rather, struggling to implement it into an existing project that might be a little too complex for my first attempt with KO) I decided to back burner it for a while. However I did learn a lot more about dealing with data, json, and oop in general with javascript and jquery. [Read More]

This week and the past have been spent a lot with XNA 4.0 (Xbox Live Indie game development). I did a little bit of work on a project and started looking for good sprite assets for a test game. My idea is to create a DayZ type game but overhead 2D using Zombies Ate My Neighbors! style graphics (in fact the actual sprite sheets from that game itself). Found some great resources for the sprites. [Read More]

Welcome to my new blog! This blog is just going to be a weekly/daily journal of sorts, logging all of my discoveries and observations on the Internet and related to development in general. Of course, expect some anecdotes on gaming and life as well! Integrated a Twitter feed into the UGM website. Used a tiny bit of jQuery animate to slide the feed bar out from the left side of the screen. [Read More]