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I had the pleasure of working an issue just the other day where an internal web application didn’t seem to be responding. At first I suspected some type of bug in environment configuration, or some other type of obscure thing. The app worked in other environments, so that was my first suspicion. After a bit [...]

For those that have a small case of “Mac envy”, this post is for you (and me, honestly). One of the neatest things about the Mac OS user interface is the “fisheye” menu at the bottom of the screen. You know the one, where there is a dock bar with icons on it, and when [...]

I’m still a bit of a n00b with ANT still, but I took the time today to improve my skills with it a tad to help automate a task which has become quite repetitive. Once we are ready to roll changes to our application we first have to minify our JavaScript and CSS files. We [...]

A useful feature, and high “value add” to many sites today is a text box with autocomplete and suggestion as you type. The powerful jQuery JavaScript library makes this really easy to do, especially with the help of the excellent autocomplete plugin from bassistance.de. In this example we will setup a page to search for [...]

I am working on a contract right now where I am having to do some manipulation of dates in a calendar. This particular calendar stores dates in Julian Day Number (JDN) format. This by itself is not a serious issue as PHP has simple functions to handle these conversions. However I have a situation where [...]

For those not following me on Twitter or Facebook, here’s a quick post to let everyone know to check out my latest article talking about how to implement the Observer Pattern in JavaScript. Give it a click, and thanks for reading!

http://blog.adampresley.com/software-development/observer-pattern-in-javascript/

I’m happy to announce my second plugin is up on the jQuery website for download, AP Text Counter. This is a simple plugin that implements a text limiter and counter mechanism in jQuery, complete with customizable options and useful callbacks to know when various events occur. Here are the links, so go give it a [...]

While using my little tag plugin, AP Tags, I ran into a small snag where I have a dialog box that I am crafting dynamically using jQuery UI. In this dialog I have my tag plugin, and I am calling it every time a different “Edit” link is created. I’m doing this so I can [...]