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Handling javascript errors on production websites
Handling javascript errors as always been sort of a problem for me. Testing every combination possible in a big application is hard, and there is always a chance you will miss something.
Of course, we should always strive to make an application as bug free as possible, but users seems to always find a way to break it. You can always expect them to do something you never have think of, and this is one of the reason I created this plugin.
When a javascript error is detected, this plugin will do an ajax request to your server and then sends an email, of course you could also log it in a database. It’s certainly not a revolutionary idea, but still, I was finding the idea cool…
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Going to war, web developer style
There is bad customer services everywhere, but nothing quite compares to The Brick for me. Here in Quebec we get raped by Telecom companies on cellphone plans and internet, we pay much more for less, and yet, today I am really more pissed off at The Brick.
I am going to spare you the details of my adventure with them, you can find all the details here. Let’s just say that I bought some furniture and I am really not happy with it.
War, guerrilla style!
I was so pissed off about my discussion with their customer support that I decided to create a website to tell everyone about how shitty The Brick is, and I did it in little more than 4 hours. First thing first, I…
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Introducing hooks in the jQuery form validation engine plugin
Hooks are a new feature just introduced into the engine recently. This makes it very easy to add extra behaviors on top of the current error prompts.
The hooks make the use of the jQuery custom event feature. A good example of use would be to add a mention that there is a problem at the form beginning when an error is found.
There are currently 3 hooks implemented in the engine. One that is triggered before the validation, one after each field validation, and one, finally, with the form result.
* jqv.form.validating : Triggers when the form is submitted and before it starts the validation process
* jqv.field.result(event, field, errorFound, prompText) : Triggers when a field is validated with the result.
* jqv.form.result(event, errorFound) : Trigger when a…
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Using form ajax validation with the jQuery Validation Engine plugin
Since 2.0 a lot of people wondered how was working the new ajax validation. Doing ajax validation and controlling the submit form event has always been an headache, and while the validation engine aspire to make it as easy as possible, it is probably never going to be simple for junior developers.
To be fair, the ajax feature has been rewritten and was not as mature as in the 1.7 version. However the 2.x base code is starting to be pretty good with the recent updates. If no other bugs popup, I will start tagging the 2.x releases on github and this version will be considered stable for a while.
There is 2 demos added to the repository, one with only the inline validation and another with…
