http://truefalsemaybe.com tom longson's blog on software, design, and user experience Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:57:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been expanding my library recently, and I wanted to share a list of some advanced JavaScript books I've picked up: JavaScript: The Good Parts by Papa Crock High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2010/06/javascript-book-recommendations/ Demo: PubSub in jQuery Recently I did a post on Data Binding in JavaScript using the YUI3 Library as my base. h3 and MikeInVB wanted to see it in jQuery, so I rewrote it and it turns out is a great example of PubSub (publish / subscribe) for jQuery. For this ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2010/04/pubsub-in-jquery-with-custom-events/ See the demo here: Data Binding in JavaScript Back when I was in Flex land one of the things that I found to be really neat was data binding... you could essentially have widgets that would update if the data updated automagically. I also wanted to take a stab at doing ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2010/04/data-binding-in-javascript/ I recently had to do some really heavy lifting with templates in JavaScript, and opted to use John Resig's "Micro-templating" within the Underscore.js Library. It's nice, you can write JavaScript within your templates to control your flow, like: It's been milliseconds since the epoch. Which, if you're like me is great. ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2010/04/121/ This is in response to Daniel Barreiro's post on putting DataTables in DataTables: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/03/17/using-nested-datatables-for-row-expansion/ Credit: my coworker Jason R. Smith. http://truefalsemaybe.com/2010/03/datatable-in-yer-datatable/ I saw a message on twitter about something called JSONPX, and did some research to try to find out what it was. According to Wait till I come this is a new way to provide XML with a callback. Essentially this is a format to provide markup Yahoo's API with ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2009/10/what-is-jsonpx/ Andrew says to his kids "What's the rule?" http://truefalsemaybe.com/2009/05/be-cool/ I wanted to use tags with SQLAlchemy, so I looked up previous examples and found Wayne's post on how he did it. I adapted his code into a single file example so you can see better how it works. For any given page, there can be any number of tags ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2009/04/100/ I'm not religious but I like the idea of Lent because it fits into the idea of changing our habits, which is hard to do and potentially has dramatic long standing effects on how we live. I for one love reading Reddit and sometimes Digg, but I find it to be ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2009/02/giving-up-reddit-for-lent/ I'm bummed out. My old friend, Phil passed away last monday and I missed the get together this last weekend because I've been off the social grid these past months. The above photo is probably the best picture I took in high school, and was used to create a flyer ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/12/rip-phild0g/