After attempting to add Dr. Nic’s GitHubBadge javascript pluggin into my new forum, erlanguid.com, I decided to create my own version that will work with multiple possible elements in the page (as is necessary in a forum). It should be noted that I am by no means a javascript expert and I used Dr. Nic’s pluggin as reference for some of my code. Credit where credit is due: Thanks Dr. Nic!
Via some jQuery 1.2.6 goodness and a little bit of elbow grease, I seem to have it working alright. I’ll quickly walk you through the code and how to make use of it should you so desire!
Categories: erlanguid,javascript,jquery,webdev
Tagged: javascript json github
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- November 27, 2008 – 10:39 pm
- Author:
- By John Bender
Aspect oriented programming is a relatively new paradigm but it’s existence in the the .NET world was brand new to me when one of my clients/bosses Kris Kniaz stopped by my desk and told me about it. He pointed me at their site and at first it was a little vague what the software was trying to accomplish but about 2 minutes into reading it over I realized I was looking at C# filtering!
Categories: .net,pattern
Tagged: .Net AspectOriented
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- November 21, 2008 – 2:19 pm
- Author:
- By John Bender
A friend at work alerted me to the new MVC framework that’s in beta for .NET and I was really excited to see what they had come up with. He showed me some code samples and I immediately recognized some very Rails-ish stuff in there. So lets take a look and see what they have going on because so far its looking pretty awesome.
Categories: .net,microsoft,webdev
Tagged: MVC Rails .NET
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- November 18, 2008 – 12:34 pm
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- By John Bender
So instead of rolling happenings into a gem, I got bored and decided to hack together some Silverlight and see what it was like. I’ve often said that C# is awesome for development, but that ASP.NET is not the best. The event driven model makes me want to gouge my eyes out (Page_Load, After_Load, Post_Pre_After_Load), [...]
Categories: .net,microsoft,webdev
Tagged: silverlight xmlviewer
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- November 14, 2008 – 10:54 pm
- Author:
- By John Bender
So I think that my event tracking system happenings is pretty nice. Nice enough that people might want to use it for their projects. The question that I’m trying to answer is: can I roll this in to a gem so I get all the package management niceness (Dependencies, etc) that goes along with gems, or do I need to create a plugin with generators and such?
Categories: rubyonrails,webdev
Tagged: gem plugin rails ruby
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- November 13, 2008 – 8:44 am
- Author:
- By John Bender
Since I started posting on this blog again I have been thinking a lot about Windows 7 and how MS could make it developer friendly. A lot of these ideas have come from discussions with colleagues (I work for a Microsoft consulting firm) and also from articles I’ve read that I agree with.
There are two or three main problems with how Microsoft treats its development community that I take issue with. I’ll decide whether its two or three as this post continues but the point is: Good developer’s want access to the best tools (ide & api), good developer’s make good applications (elegant inside and out), and good applications make a good platform.
Categories: .net,microsoft,windows
Tagged: Microsoft developers
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- November 12, 2008 – 8:17 am
- Author:
- By John Bender
As promised I submitted my ym4r google maps rails plugin patch. That’s pretty much the first patch I’ve ever submitted for anything, so here’s hoping they don’t come back and lambast me for my ridiculously stupid idea.
Categories: rubyonrails,webdev
Tagged: ym4r rails google maps
- Published:
- November 11, 2008 – 8:25 pm
- Author:
- By John Bender
