I had such a hard time getting this to work, it most definitely deserved a blog post. Hopefully others can make sense of this by reading this post. Scenario I wanted to do some conditional formatting on my rows of data using the gridComplete method. In order for me to do conditional formatting, I need [...]
Continue Reading →How To Parse An Ajax [object XMLHttpRequest]
This is a quick post to summarize a couple areas of confusion I often see on the web surrounding Ajax and the XMLHttpRequest call. Read about what Ajax is all about and how to parse the XMLHttpRequest response.
Continue Reading →jqGrid Text/Word Wrapping
Just a quick post for anyone else having this issue. I am working with the latest version of jqGrid, and I am dealing with cell data that is longer than the width of the cell making it difficult to see. I wanted to have this data wrap and the height of the cell adjust to [...]
Continue Reading →jQuery – Get All Divs Whose ID Starts With
Structure: 1 2 3 4 <div id="thisismydiv1"></div> <div id="thisismydiv2"></div> <div id="thisismydiv3"></div> <div id="thisismydiv4"></div> To return an array of all divs that start with ‘thisismydiv’, you would use the following: 1 var divList = $("div[id^='thisismydiv']"); The above translates to, find me all divs whose id starts with ‘thisismydiv’. You could now do something cool like add [...]
Continue Reading →jQuery UI Tabs – Creating Closable Tabs
Ok, so this is really a follow up to my previous post where I outlined how to build jQuery Tabs that Open and Close. I did end that post with a small TODO for myself: integrate the close capability into the tab itself so the user didn’t have to click a button to close that [...]
Continue Reading →Site Cutover
Hi everyone, just wanted to post a quick note to let you all know that my blog is undergoing a few changes, one of those being a new hosting company, Rackspace. There are a few things that have not quite been cut over properly, so I’ll be dealing with those in the next couple of [...]
Continue Reading →Party with Vancouver IT community Monday June 8th
The Vancouver IT community is hosting a DevTeach kick off party on Monday, June 8th. This is the official social event for DevTeach Vancouver so come socialize with us! The event is not just for the attendees of DevTeach Vancouver it’s a free event for everyone. It’s a unique chance for the attendees, speakers and [...]
Continue Reading →I’m heading to RailsConf next week!
While I don’t spend the majority of my time coding with Ruby in Rails, I really do enjoy it and was excited at the opportunity to attend my very first RailsConf this year. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this conference and am hoping to up my ruby and rails skills a little bit. [...]
Continue Reading →Criteria For Hiring a Good Developer
If anyone is interested, Black Ninja posted a relevant article on what we consider to be a good developer. The article in reference is actually written by Daniel over at inter-sections.net and is the best thing I’ve seen to date that describes how we feel about web development and the community we’re a part of. [...]
Continue Reading →Speaking at DevTeach!
Greetings everyone! I am very excited to annouce that I have been selected to speak at the DevTeach conference that will be held here in Vancouver from June 8-12. I spend a great deal of time blogging about working with the Telerik web controls in my SharePoint development, so I figured this would be a good [...]
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