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Rack-webconsole, a Rails console inside your browser

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:55:46 +0000

Rack-webconsole is a Rack middleware that enhances your development experience providing a JavaScript-powered bridge to your Ruby application backend.

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brunch with coffee – a HTML5 and JS framework

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:55:34 +0000

A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity. Instead of reinventing the wheel, brunch assembles awesome wheels: CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Stitch, Eco, Stylus & jQuery

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jQuery Plugin Boilerplate

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:50:24 +0000

A boilerplate for jump-starting jQuery plugins development.
Contains lots of comments to help you get going easily. It implements public and private methods, as well as public and private properties making it the ideal candidate for when building both simple and complex jQuery plugins.
It does not adhere to the suggestions made by the jQuery documentation regarding Plugins/Authoring.
The jQuery Plugin Boilerplate took some inspiration from Doug Neiner‘s Starter.

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Front End Development Guidelines

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:06:03 +0000

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Tools for jQuery Application Architecture – The Printable Chart

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:18:12 +0000

A single chart that breaks down recommendations for tasks like structuring client-side MVC apps, templating, unit and BDD testing, debouncing and more.

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Phono – jQuery Phone Plugin

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:09:21 +0000

Phono is a simple jQuery plugin and JavaScript library that turns any web browser into a phone; capable of making phone calls and sending instant messages. You can even connect to SIP clients; all with a simple unified API.

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jQote – client-side templating

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:22:22 +0000

jQote (pronounced like Star Trek’s Chakotey) is basically a rewrite of John Resig’s awesome JavaScript Micro-Templating utility. I took his code and ported it to jQuery, overhauled the parsing / conversion part and extended it’s functionality to minimize everyone’s coding efforts.

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Web Frameworks on JBoss on Vimeo

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:44:58 +0000

This presentation is a web framework roundup, to discuss the more popular ways to build web applications on the JBoss application server and to describe their relative pros and cons. The result of my research & exploration, there are many alternatives and your choice may simply be a matter of taste.
Demonstrated frameworks and libraries include: SpringMVC, jQuery, Seam, JSF, RichFaces, GWT.

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StackOverflow Clone in jQuert and Redis

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:15:15 +0000

Simple StackOverlow-like Ajax website using only jQuery for UI, calling Service Stack’s REST-ful web services, powered entirely by Redis.

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jQuery-ujs – nobtrusive RoR adapter for jQuery

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:05:16 +0000

This unobtrusive scripting support file is developed for the Ruby on Rails framework, but is not strictly tied to any specific backend. You can drop this into any application to:
force confirmation dialogs for various actions;make non-GET requests from hyperlinks;make forms or hyperlinks submit data asynchronously with Ajax;have submit buttons become automatically disabled on form submit to prevent double-clicking.These features are achieved by adding certain “data” attributes to your HTML markup. In Rails, they are added by the framework’s template helpers.

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