Ricardo Parente's Blog

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: “Developing Enterprise AJAX Applications Using Ext-JS 4″ with Steve Drucker Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday June 16 will be “Developing Enterprise AJAX Applications Using Ext-JS 4″ with Steve Drucker.   TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Ext JS 4 is a major advance in JavaScript frameworks. [...]

A good article on JQuery custom events by Hal Helms. http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/10/24/jQuery-Custom-Events–A-Deeper-Look

The fourth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for the Droppable, Resizable, Selectable and Sortable interactions as well as the Accordion, Autocomplete, Button, Datepicker Dialog, Progressbar, Slider and Tabs widgets. jQuery UI 1.8.3 was released a few days prior to 1.8.4, but there was a problem with the [...]

I received a comment in my other article with the same title from Larry C. Lyons indicating me a better solution by Stuart Langridge making use of a Javascript library he wrote called sorttable.js, which sorts the HTML table by sortable headers, without having to send another request to the database. Very well done, congratulations Stuart.

 This is an article very interesting for those who want to apply the effects of LightBox to your alert windows. I found this article on a post by Patrick Hunlock where he says: This snippet “grays” out the screen and allows you to create a “modal” environment. A gray out is useful for creating a DHTML [...]

Sometimes in an Intranet you need to notify the client that his session is about to expire and let him to decide if he will renew his session or let it die. That can be done either on server or client side. We will discuss here the client-side way using Javascript and/or Ajax to refresh [...]

My friend Flavio asked me for a code to select some options from a select box and populate other that will be submitted with the form as the “chosen” options. I know that there are many forms to do that and there are on the web several tutorials using Javascript and extensions as jQuery, etc.  [...]