Archive for August, 2009
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This Week: Ajax with jQuery and a complete application example
This week, will not have as much of a theme as we usually try to stick to. This week, we will be utilizing jQuery to create a very basic but useful application. We will also begin discussion about Ajax and how you can use jQuery to streamline the p
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Introduction To jQuery Events
One of the best features of jQuery is the way it handles events. In jQuery you can code many different types of events that you can not usually available through traditional HTML and JavaScript. Today we will examine a few of the different events a
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jQuery Date Picker Tutorial Series — jQueryUI Datepicker
To conclude the jQuery Date Picker Series, we will explore the most basic jQuery date picker... the one provided with jQueryUI. The jQueryUI Date Picker is just as simple to use as other date pickers. Like many other things in jQuery you start out
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jQuery Date Picker Tutorial Series — FilamentGroup Date Picker
The Date Range Picker by Filament Group is probably the best date range picker available today. It gives you a wide range of flexibility to choose your own range of dates as well as particular ranges that are commonly used (Like last 7 days, Last 30
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jQuery Date Picker Series — Date Picker by Eyecon
The first plugin in the series is a date picker created by Eyecon. It requires very little to implement and gives you quite a bit of power. You can choose either a single date or a range of dates by simply clicking on the start date and then clicki
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jQuery Date Picker Series
Choosing a date can be a very important function of any web application. However, there are not a lot of good ways to choose a date, or a series of dates for that manner. Some people have chosen to create a series of select input blocks in order to
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iPhone Style Checkboxes with jQuery
With the popularity of the iPhone, many plugins exist to replicate the functionality of the iPhone operating system. Today I will talk about a plugin I stumbled upon. It replaces all checkboxes with a checkbox that is styled to match the iPhone. I
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Flot Tutorial Series: Creating Different Types of Graphs
Today we will discuss how by using Flot, you can display your data in a number of different ways. In Flot you can have a line graph (the default display for Flot), a bar graph, and a point graph. It is very simple to make these different types of g
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Flot Tutorial Series: Placing a Chart On Your Website
Now that we know how to create a Flot data set, we can now go over how you actually place a data set into a chart. Thankfully, this is very easy to do. First thing you have to do is create a div with a unique ID. <div id="placeholder" style="wid
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Flot Tutorial Series: Creating A Flot Dataset
The most basic thing that one must know in order to use Flot is to understand how to create a data set. The data set is the actual raw data that Flot uses to construct your chart. While some other libraries make this difficult to accomplish, Flot a
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