The Yahoo User Interface libraries are now at version 2.3.0 with six new features.
* Rich Text Editor
* Base CSS
* YUILoader
* ImageLoader
* ColorPicker
* YUI Test Utility
* Skins
I am hoping to get a chance to have some fun with this version when my time in SQL hell comes to an end.
With our application go-live scheduled for this Monday, I am entering a retrospective mood on everything that we have accomplished, and the hurdles that hurt us. Although scope-creep is always the most painful hurdle, I would place the implementation model of Microsoft’s AJAX.NET as a solid second place pain in my butt.
It comes as no surprise that Visual Basic frequently breaks away from traditional programming semantics, but the “AndAlso” short circuit conditional simply does not make sense.
Although I love technology, and find fun and challenge almost anywhere; I have to admit, my current project is repetitive drudgery of SQL changes, retest, fix, ad nauseum. Yet there is a light at the end of the tunnel, I just hope it is not a train.
As a creator of business applications, I always need to be cognizant of how a user interacts with my applications, and even more so when the application is being ported from an older version. In the world of browser development, matching the keyboard shortcuts that users have come to rely on in window based apps was always tricky, with each browser being a touch different on what codes they return.
Just like every other browser development challenge, someone wrote a javascript library. This library, from the OpenJS site, makes javascript keyboard shortcuts as easy as this:
shortcut(”Ctrl+Shift+X”,function() {
alert(”Hi there!”);
});
Alot of heads down code work with our Sharepoint Content Management application, so from that comes alot of lessons learned. Why seven? Because it is lucky, and that is all I got (which is enough!!!).
How many Microsoft developers does it take fix a light bulb? None, they just declare darkness to be the new standard. <rant=enabled >
Although I have been somewhat under-impressed by the ASP.NET AJAX library, I have been pleasantly surprised by the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and especially with the masked edit boxes.
For Domino developers, the idea of creating an event handler that logs every change to a view (either via the UI or through the backend) is a pipe dream. So when I saw how easy these handlers were to create and deploy in Sharepoint, I thought somebody must have been listening. Alas, I wish it was really that easy.
New version that they have re-designated to be in line with their internal version numbers. New features include Browser History Manager (ajax back button support), a new DataTable class (not quite the Ext Grid, but still pretty good - example here), and some new YUI button controls (examples here). Some pretty cool stuff to write about, so in I go. First stop, adding the History Manager to my YUI Wordpress theme.