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The jQuery Boston conference or how to write jQuery professionally.
I wanted to round up a bit my thoughts about this year Boston jQuery conference. If you had a look at the talks descriptions you certainly saw that there were a lot of talks about code organization, unit testing, templating and etc. It seems this year has really been the year where experienced jQuery developers […]
Cedric Dugas
October 22, 2010
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Validation Engine 1.7.1 compatibility release and why
I just released a compatibility release for jQuery 1.4.3. Unfortunately jQuery 1.4.3 has a bug when using live with attribute not equal selector in Firefox, and this is exactly what I use in my validation engine. I also moved my code to github, why? Because Github is hot. http://github.com/posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine
Cedric Dugas
October 20, 2010
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Form Validation Engine 1.7 is partially broken with jQuery 1.4.3
Hi guys, I am having a problem with triggering focusout event with the new jQuery 1.4.3. As of right now, I am not really sure why this is happening and the 1.4.3 bugs are not really out. This bug is only affecting the inline validation, your older site validations will still work when the user […]
Cedric Dugas
October 18, 2010
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#jqcon – funcUnit: Selenium and qUnit glory
“ JavaScript application testing has a well-earned reputation for being a giant pain in the ass. Existing solutions suffer from complex setup, difficult APIs, lack of automation, or expensive licensing fees. But there’s no denying that solid testing is the key to a better quality, more maintainable app. And that’s where FuncUnit comes in. FuncUnit is a […]
Cedric Dugas
October 16, 2010
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#jqcon – $.Phono() looks hot!
Phono is a jquery plugin that you can use to make phone call within the browser. The server is in the cloud, and it use flash to actually use the microphone. There is also a java applet in the way, and they hope to use html5 later, if html5 get an microphone implementation. Really easy […]
Cedric Dugas
October 16, 2010
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Moving from website services to web applications
I am happy to announce that I willl be soon joining the Cakemail development team and leaving my current front-end developer position at w.illi.am/. After more than 5 years of being in the website service business, this will be a welcomed change. There is just a couple of itchy things about the website gig that […]
Cedric Dugas
September 21, 2010
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Overtime and web developers
I was reading an article from Ben Yoskovitz (Started Standout jobs) about why you should hire workaholics or not and it got me thinking.. Why it is expected that web developers do overtime? Most of the time for free? From a startup perspective, the fact that you will be tackling interesting problems and doing more […]
Cedric Dugas
September 14, 2010
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Form Validation Engine 1.7 Online
It’s been a long time since I updated the validation engine. In this release the engine get a very small code overhaul, a fix to the inline ajax validation and also, and more importantly, a new feature makes its entrance: Validation in overflown div and lightbox with scrollable content is now supported To get the […]
Cedric Dugas
July 1, 2010
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Crockford on JavaScript
Good morning everyone, having a slow day at work? take the time to listen to these videos, or just put them in background while you work! “During the past three months, Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford delivered a series of public lectures on the JavaScript programming language at Yahoo!. YUI Theater recorded and transcribed each […]
Cedric Dugas
June 14, 2010
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Cool web projects that will energize you
Sometimes there are projects that are just way cooler than yours. In this spirit, I wanted to highlights some projects that just flabbergast me. I tried to put more down to earth projects than just “experimental stuff”. Vanthia Vanthia is just a browser MMO based on Mootools and Python. The creator worked on it for […]
Cedric Dugas
June 1, 2010