Category Archives: jQuery

Ajax Calendar with Visual Foxpro and jQuery

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Per a request and for a little bit of fun, I created a flat ajax calendar with jQuery and Visual Foxpro for use with the Web Connection framework. This demo allows you to load a calendar and it’s navigation via ajax and edit events without time consuming page reloads.

You can add an event to each day by clicking the small ‘edit’ button next to the day number. I haven’t included anything like security, users, authentication, etc. but I think it is flexible enough too. This comes straight out of my intranet app, so may be a little rough around the edges as I had to generalize it for demo purposes.

Update (08/06/2008): Fixed the download link. Oops.

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Must have jQuery plugins [July 2008]

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Here is my current list of must have jQuery plugins as of July 2008. I don’t start a project without the latest version of these plugins in my javascript directory.

  • Impromptu
    BlockUI from Mike Alsup is awesome, this is just a little lighter and less code for relatively simple dialogs.
  • Cycle
    Mike Alsup has another winner here. Great for animated image slideshows.
  • Cookies
    A super easy way to manage cookies the jQuery way.
  • Lava Lamp Menu
    This menu showcases a very unique lava lamp effect on hover.
  • Table Sorter
    This plugin has it all: Multi-column sorting, paging, and striping.
  • Autocomplete
    This stalwart of jQuery plugin has been recently updated and is as useful as ever.

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Don’t forget to check out my list from May 2008 and my list of jQuery Twitter’ers.

Following jQuery on Twitter

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The Weblog Tools Collections made a list of people in the WordPress community that it recommends you follow on Twitter. I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so I thought I’d compile a list of jQuery-centric people that you should follow on Twitter in no particular order…

…and of course, the official jQuery and jQuery UI Twitter feeds…

…finally, you can follow me on Twitter too.

If I’ve forgotten any, please let me know in the comments. The jQuery community is growing leaps and bounds every day, and it is hard to keep up on all of them.

Must have jQuery plugins [May 2008]

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Here is my current list of must have jQuery plugins as of May 2008. I don’t start a project without the latest version of these plugins in my javascript directory.

  • Forms
    Mike Alsup has created a must have here with his forms plugin. Ajax-ified forms at their easiest.
  • File Tree
    A very pretty file tree that was super easy to implement in Web Connection.
  • idTabs
    I’ve written about idTabs before.
  • Masked Input
    Keeping users honest
  • BlockUI
    Mike Alsup, the form plugin author, also has this great plugin that I use for confirmations and to focus the user to make a decision.
  • LiveQuery
    When you absolutely, positively have to keep an event bound no matter what happens to your DOM.
  • Quick Search
    Take a list or table and search through it as you type. See it in action live on the Salem Clinic website.

All of these work with the latest version of jQuery that I have in production (1.2.3).

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