In this post we’ll take a look at two quite new things. JSViews and the MVCHaack prototype, in a simple scenario in which we’ll update multiple records in an mvc app. First what is what. Intro JsViews, is the next generation of jQuery templates and data link, divided in two parts JsRender and JsViews. On [...]

jQuery is a powerful library and it is possible to get by without using any of the new features. That’s why many of us just upgrade to a new version assuming that it is mostly bug and performance fixes. This is not the case. jQuery 1.4.2 was released in February 2010 and it’s been one [...]

Recently, Jayway hosted the seminar “HTML5 & MVC3″ in Malmö and Stockholm. We also visited the SweNUG Linköping group and held our presentation there. In this post, we will give you links to some of the topics we covered. The presentation was first delivered on Techdays 2011, and we recommend you to look at that [...]

A few weeks ago, it was announced that Ruby on Rails 3.1 will include jQuery, Sass (using SCSS) and CoffeeScript as default dependencies. Among these, CoffeeScript seems to be the controversial dependency, at least if you read the comments on the actual commit (check out the funny meme pictures). In this blog post, I’ll try to [...]

The Google Maps Javascript API v3 provides overlays for drawing shapes, such as Polygons, Circles, Polylines and Rectangles. The shapes are not implicitly interactive in the respect that you cannot tell the shape to be ‘editable’ as you could in the Javascript v2 API (here’s an example). To simulate the behavior using functionality provided by [...]

What happens when you give three small teams ninety minutes, one loosely worded spec and no rules? Read on. We developers instinctively focus on the code. It must be testable, decoupled, beautiful, robust, and (here’s the thing) it should hopefully do what it supposed to do. Let’s create a situation where, for once, only the [...]

During the last two days of TechDays 2011 in Örebro, with the tagline ‘the Cloud story’, the term HTML5 was as frequently mentioned by speakers on some tracks as the word cloud was in other. Team .NET Web was represented by Gustaf (@gustaf_nk), Per (@per_okvist) and Karl (@herradriansson), with a session about our views on [...]

Use jQuery jQuery is the best thing that has happened to Javascript since it got first class functions in version 1.2. The library is elegant, powerful and has exactly the right level of abstraction for working with the DOM. There is nothing more to say. Learn it and use it. Good resources are: the jQuery [...]

I’m currently working on a web project based on Wicket. In this web project there was a request for a web based word processor. TinyMce fits the bill perfectly and as it happens is also integrated in Wicket. Lucky me! Another request required me to make my own plugin for TinyMce. Only, it turned out [...]

SO you need to do something special with a javascript and you want to integrate that with wicket. In my last article I looked at this from the wicket side and wrote about what you can do to push something out from wicket. But what if you want to interact? Then you will have to take a peek at wickets javascript internals. If you are working on an ajax component you get these wicket javascript source files included as default [...]