I was stoked to hear about the alpha launch of jQuery Mobile recently, and immediately started playing with the framework. In just an hour I built a small mobile application for budget tracking, and put it up on our dev site for testing. It doesn’t do much yet.. just account creation, login and some simple credits/expenses tracking, but given the fact that this was a from-scratch project and took less than an hour to build.. it shows the power of knowing the right frameworks and development environments.
Learning JavaScript
If you’re a beginner it can be a bit confusing separating information and learning the format and structure of Javascript. If you have NO programming experience I would recommend webteacher to get started with learning javascript. You can also skip the learning process and jump right into some powerful code by using a pre-built library such as jQuery, prototype or scriptaculous. I recommend one of these two JS libraries because they focus on making complex javascript programming make since to the average developer with little to no programming experience. Particle Tree can help you out with some great guides and tutorials for using the prototype library and Learning jQuery rocks for starting out.
Tagged javascript, jquery, prototype, Web Development
jQuery Snippets
I was going through my Coda clips today, and realized I have a lot of little one-off plugins and snippets I use often on projects and realized that others might enjoy clipping these as well.
As an aside from this, I’m curious.. what IDE do you use and do you take advantage of a built in snippet manager or do you use some web based service instead?
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