Introduction D3 and jQuery utilize distinctly different approaches to node manipulation and internal array storage. However, there are mechanisms available for converting between D3 and jQuery, and vice versa. D3 and jQuery Internals Let’s assume the following HTML structure: Now let’s retrieve the “test-node” elements with jQuery: As can be Read more…
Introduction If you’re a solid user of jQuery or just a tinkerer you may have thought to yourself “I have a great idea for a jQuery plugin”. Your next steps of course would probably be to look at the jQuery documentation and eventually to have a look at someone else’s Read more…
Introduction You may or may not have heard the new buzz about promises being introduced into JavaScript and if you don’t know what they are, you’re not alone. I’ll attempt to explain what they are and why you should or maybe shouldn’t care about them. First let’s understand what promises Read more…
Introduction Ever find yourself needing to do some number crunching, or create an off time rendering hook or perhaps just needing to create a separate thread for some other purpose, this is how you do it. Getting Started First things first, we need to create a separate javascript file Read more…
Introduction Implementing drag and drop in D3 (http://d3js.org/) is a pretty simple task when you know how to do it, the following is a walkthrough from setup to execution and the events along the way. Getting Started First thing we are going to want to do is setup our drag Read more…
For years web developers have been forced to cater to the lowest denominator, this usually being the most featureless non-compliant browser available. With web compliant standards available to the public and a consortium of propeller heads to keep these standards in check, I believe it’s time for a change. As Read more…
Most PHP developers utilizing MVC frameworks would argue that the best approach for models are classes with a varied number of getters and setters. After a long time working with PHP and especially MVC frameworks and data mining/retrieval, I am of a completely different opinion and I will discuss why.
Foreword So I was developing a Facebook application and realized that once the content was rendered inside of Facebook, I kept getting scrollbars. This was terribly annoying being that I wanted to take up more vertical space, but didn’t want the iframe to have scrollbars. Instead, I wanted the main Read more…
Forword The following javascript examples and notation demonstrate a few alternatives to well known methods for common tasks. Advanced Notation Tilde Operator The tilde operator ~ literally equates to -(n+1). For example: Large Denary Numbers Large denary numbers can be represented in short hand notation using the e operator. For Read more…
Foreword Absolutely positioned elements can be quite useful, but what if you have something centered or off to one side and you need to just nudge an absolutely positioned element. The following will show you a handy technique for moving absolute elements relative to the elements around it using nothing Read more…