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Dynamic Favicons using HTML5 Local Storage and TinyCon

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:44:26 GMT

I was perusing Github the other day and I came across this awesome little JavaScript library. It's called TinyCon and it's a small library for manipulating the favicon in your browser. It adds alert bubbles and changing images pretty similar to the way Gmail does. It's basically a really fun little library that allows you to add a notification bubble to your favicons. I started to play around with the code provided on Github and got up and running in no time.

Regular Expressions in CoffeeScript are Awesome!

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:02:47 GMT

Let's face it, regular expressions aren't for everyone. It takes a special breed of developer to actually enjoy writing regular expressions. Although I enjoy them, the developer that comes after me may find that they are cryptic and hard to read ... One of the very cool things I like about CoffeeScript is that you can annotate your regular expressions!

Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:17:11 GMT

I've seen quite a bit of confusion from developers about what the real different is between the .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), and .on() methods are jQuery and when they should be used.

8 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of January 2012

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:17:56 GMT

Last month developers were busy with jQuery and it is time to go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins they created in January 2012.

Jquery tabs postback problem and solution

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:01:45 GMT

I am using jquery library in my project and I use jquery-ui tabs. When a postback occurs in any tab, tabs reloaded and goes to first tab. Solution is...

How to Access jQuery's Internal Data

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:31:04 GMT

One used to be able to access the internal events data and investiate what events are registered on any given element, but recently this internal information has been hidden... Thankfully, if you still need access to the internal data it is still accessible.

Find the jQuery Bug 3: Give Me Truth

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:18:25 GMT

In this open-ended series I'll be showcasing a snippet of buggy jQuery code that you might encounter, explain what the problem is, and then identify how you can easily resolve the issue.

HTML5 File Drag and Drop Upload With jQuery and ASP.NET

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:49:05 GMT

A simple example - HTML5 File Drag and Drop with jQuery and ASP.NET

Select or Unselct all check Box in an ASP.Net grid view, using JQuery

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:28:23 GMT

Many websites require functionality for letting their site visitors to select and deselect all the rows in GridView using a single checkbox normally available in the header row. You may have seen the examples of such functionality in Yahoo Mail or Hotmail inbox where you can select all the emails by clicking the single Checkbox on top of the email's grid. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can provide this functionality in ASP.NET GridView control using few lines of JQuery code.

Find the jQuery Bug 2: Point of No Return

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:48 GMT

In this open-ended series I'll be showcasing a snippet of buggy jQuery code that you might encounter, explain what the problem is, and then identify how you can easily resolve the issue.

Daily and Weekly Front-End Resources

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:37:24 GMT

If you are anything like me, you love and thrive on what is new in the front-end world. What is the latest in HTML5 buzz, what is the newest library that will solve all my needs, what is that new jQuery plugin that will make my client drool, and things of the like.

jQuery Custom Events

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:09:53 GMT

Using .trigger() and .triggerHandler() to create custom events in jQuery

How to Customize jQuery UI Autocomplete to Update Multiple Fields

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:00:29 GMT

jQuery UI Autocomplete widget can be customized to update arbitrary number of fields. This tutorial presents end-to-end solution how to put it together with ASP.NET Webservice.

Formatting JavaScript Date

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:40:55 GMT

Formatting DateTime in C# is dead simple - just call ToString() passing in the format string you desire. Doing the same in JavaScript is annoyingly cumbersome...

Apply CSS Style to the parent page based on condition in an IFrame con

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:08:53 GMT

I was given asn assignment to change theb back ground image of the parent page for a pop up window which as being opened using JQuery color box pluging. The pop up page was being opened in an iFrame (html tag). In Iframe we had a div with the Id and also we had the a Div with same name on parent page which was being added when pop up was comping up on the screen.

liteGrid is jQuery grid for Asp.Net Mvc

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:49:31 GMT

liteGrid is a lightweight, event-driven jQuery Grid/Table plug-in. Its loosely-coupled, extensible design makes it very easy to customize without requiring you to make cumbersome changes to complex code. The core of liteGrid provides very little functionality. It's power comes in the form of pluggable modules...

jQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:26:46 GMT

For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some "new submission process." This happened very suddenly, and we're sorry to everyone who's been inconvenienced.

KnockoutJS-Dependencies - Ran Wahle's blog

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:32:34 GMT

After binding the data into our page, we wish to be able to create an interactive page. This means that we want to be able to add some behavior to our view-model, triggered by an event on the page. (A button being clicked for example).

Month and Year Picker UserControl - DotNetLogix

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:32:34 GMT

Month and Year Picker UserControl

KnockoutJS-Event binding - Ran Wahle's blog

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:32:34 GMT

KnockoutJS-Templates - Ran Wahle's blog

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:10:21 GMT

After being introduced KnockoutJs concept and go to know the basics of data-binding with Observable and observableArray, let's move on to how to work with templates and our collection to them. In this post I'll explain how to bind a collection with template.

jQuery Date Range Picker To Select Year, Month Or Quarter Only

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:14:26 GMT

Very useful if you develop html reports in .NET without any reporting services. custom date range picker to select year, month or quarter only and get start date and end date of user selected value.

How to get iframe contents using jquery

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:37:21 GMT

In this example, you will see how to get iframe contents with jquery. When user click on button iframe body content will display on message box.

KnockoutJS-The Observables - Ran Wahle's blog

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:56:57 GMT

On this post I'll dive, not deeply, to the javascript on our view-model and explain some of it's basics, the ones that causes it to act as a real view-model.

Working with dropdownlist or combobox using jquery

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:23:33 GMT

More often programmers need to work with dropdownlist or combobox using jquery. We need to manipulate the dropdownlist options using jquery scripting. And it is the case that almost always we don't remember how to implement jquery selector. And for all of my readers, who are enthusiastic programmers and/or designers, and for myself, I am discussing in this post the actions with jquery to manipulate asp.net dropdownlist options.