My Portal Project

DavGlass has created an effects library for the YUI libraries to match those of Scriptaculous. The example page can be found here, the JS source code is here.
I applied this library to an existing application to show/hide the online Help with a Blind Up/Blind Down effect:
function toggleHelp(){
   var d = YAHOO.util.Dom.get(’divHelp’);
   if(d.style.display == ‘none’){
      YAHOO.widget.Effects.BlindDown(d,{duration:1});
   }else{
      YAHOO.widget.Effects.BlindUp(d,{duration:1});
   }
}

I have not had a chance to really play with this one, but simple, client side graphics without a plug-in or browser limitations looks too cool to not try.
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Jack Slocum has an excellent piece on Javascript memory leaks. This is another reason why I like the YUI libraries (besides the excellent documentation); it is clean.

Officials of the world’s largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail.
Coming late 2006.

Selenium: A free Firefox extension that can handle all of your repetitive functional testing requirements for your browser application. Sound like a browser activity recorder? Selenium can handle error alerts, ajax updates, and dynamically generated HTML, which most activity recorders fail miserably with. I cannot get enough of this application, it has already […]

You can hardly click a google link without running into a PHPBB powered forum, but Jack Slocum has taken it to the next level by rewriting the PHPBB UI using AJAX, and his YUI Grid extension. A very cool piece of work that you can see here. Jack’s Grid extension for the YUI libraries […]

In the process of reading about technology job recruiting, I came across alot of writing about what keeps good programmers from leaving their jobs. While doing all this reading I came to the realization that I do not need a “programmer”, I needed an “Application Developer”, and alot of attributes that some ascribe to […]

If you find value in creating server-side javascript statements that an ajax callback can simply execute with the EVAL statement, then in the ASP.NET environment you have probably found that to be difficult since .NET objects are named differently on the client than on the server. I started to use a little trick that […]

Off to NYC for VSLive. Some interesting things that Microsoft is doing that I want to write about from the Domino perspective (like Sql Server Everywhere; something Domino folks take for granted). See you next week.

Just a quick link over to Joel Spolsky’s site where he pretty much nails on the head the way I see the world when it comes to which language/platform to use for which projects.