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Good weekend, programs. Here is another collection of (hopefully) useful and interesting jQuery related links. Please drop me a line if you have any links you think should be highlighted.
- First up is a new series by Andy Matthews, jQuery and AIR: Creating a new AIR project in Aptana. I'm a huge fan of AIR, but have only done a few projects using jQuery and AIR, so this could be fairly helpful to folks to who want to give it a try themselves. I've got to give credit to Aptana for doing a real good job on their AIR plugin for Eclipse. I've had issues getting it to work sometimes, but in general, it's rock solid.
- The jQuery Function Builder is a simple tool that helps you generate jQuery code. I wish I would have had this tool a few months ago when I was learning jQuery!
- Next up is a very, very slick article on integrating jQuery and Google Analytics: Extend Google Analytics with jQuery. Anyone who is a 'power' user of Google Analytics should take a look at this. I especially like the demo of tracking mailto links.
- While I am very pleased with the jQuery Validation plugin, this looks to be an interesting alternative: A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess. Check out the demo as well. Note that it will actually scroll your browser to the first error, which is kind of cool. I also like how the errors automatically fade out when a field is corrected.
- This is a nice quickie: Query Logging is a small plugin that let's you log to Firebug's console via jQuery. I make heavy use of console.log so I can see this being pretty helpful.
- Need to associate metadata with DOM objects? The Metaobjects 1.5 plugin works by making use of the object tag. This is one of those interesting things that i don't quite grok yet.
- Related to the previous link, Hal Helms also demonstrates using metadata with an elements class property. He actually embeds the JSON right in the class, which frankly, I was surprised worked!
That's it for today. Have a great weekend!
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Thanks for the mention Ray. I'm super excited about this new series. I hope that it helps JavaScript (and jQuery) developers realize that they can write desktop applications.
I was one of the early technical reviewers for this book, before it became part of the RAW program. Looks like a lot of cool stuff made it in since then. jQuery UI is really awesome. If you've never used it before, I'm sure this book will be a good introduction. Good work :)
Yes I am familiar with this book, I think it is a great read but it actually took me a little while to catch on. I am a novice at code writing and now I just run a food delivery company. Hopefully in the future I can become a pro at this and make my living doing what I really enjoy.
Yes I loved this book. I am horrible at writing code and I really needed some help. This book was really helpful. I have been working on coding my Airsoft AK-47 website. It has been a very long road and hopefully I have got a handle on it. I really appreciate the people that took the time to lend there knowledge for this great asset. Thanks
Just wanted to say i like this book.
This book is great. Definitely a great reference full of a lot of good (geeky) information. I especially like the tips it gives for the more advanced features of google analytics, such as tracking mailto: etc. I have recently installed google analytics on my metal detectors blog, but I haven't started to get very technical yet, but now hopefully I can become a "power user".
Looks like a lot of cool stuff made it in since then. jQuery UI is really awesome. If you've never used it before, I'm sure this book will be a good introduction. Good work :)