Monthly Archives: July 2007

Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 30, 2007
Recently, I posted the top 8 things I thought the YUI Library needed to be a top tier JavaScript library again. One of those things included a CSS Selector DOM Querying class. Use one of these babies for awhile, and you’ll never be able to code without it again. They’re amazingly useful [...]
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8 Things the YUI Library Needs to Win Me Back

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 24, 2007
I’ve been cheating on my first love. When I first started seriously JavaScripting and not CopyPasteScripting, my first framework was the Yahoo User Interface Library. I was just beginning to realize the power of a JavaScript framework, but at the time I also thought that the Dom was an actor in Hollywood’s The [...]
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20/20 Hindsight, a Look Back at ALARMd

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 22, 2007
Now that the traffic has died down a little bit on ALARMd, I’d like to write a little bit about my experiences with something I don’t think anyone predicted would garner so much interest. The day I sent the link to the LifeHacker editor, I purchased the alarmd.com domain. My thoughts on the domain were [...]
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What Sound Does a Cow Make? MooTools.

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 22, 2007
Frameworks, Frameworks everywhere. There are the big six: Dojo, jQuery, prototype/scriptaculous, Ext, Mootools, and YUI. (Honorable meantion to Open Rico and Mochikit) I’ve had limited experience with all of these frameworks, but have actually worked on projects involving YUI and jQuery. So when I was shopping around for a framework that [...]
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JavaScript Frameworks and JSF

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 10, 2007
You’re programming a new web application using JSF, maybe with Facelets, maybe without. Which client-side JavaScript framework is going to work with it’s unstandardized method of assigning ID attributes to it’s elements? Here is an example of a JSF file: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %> <html> <body> <f:view> [...]
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DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 7, 2007
Generally when approaching a complex problem involving web programming in JavaScript, the first question I ask myself is ‘What would Jesus do?’ As much as I am entertained by a mental picture of Mr. Jesus himself sitting on his Jesux Distro appending children (and parents) into his DOM, I am instead distracted by an [...]
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