JavaScript - Morten Nielsen

View source on the IPad

The IPad is a nice tool for surfing the web from your sofa. However if your like me and sometimes want to check out how certain things are done it’s missing a vital feature. It’s missing a view source functionallity. So I Googled for it and found the

Conferences

Talking at Internet Dagarna in Stockholm

I’m talking about RemoteX HTML5 offline capable web app at Internet Dagarna in Stockholm the 22-24th October. Feel free to come and listen

analytics

A poor mans metrics

Everyone wants metrics these days, but it takes a while to invest in good quality metrics for your software. However, if your running a javascript based single app page, or well mostly any webpage. You could use Google Analytics to get some basic quality metrics. What can we measure? So

JavaScript

Working with the Application Cache Manifest for offline JavaScript applications

So I just spent a few hours debugging a cache manifest. It’s the second time around at there always seems to be issues when first setting up the manifest to work properly. I thought I’d mention some tools to help debugging issues with the cache manifest. There are

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Basic Authorization fails for special characters with JQuery on mobile-web-kit

We are using Basic Authorization for our REST-api at RemoteX and it’s no surprise that we have a lot of special characters in our usernames (åäö and spaces). What’s interesting is that using JQuery.ajax() with just username and password will fail for these special characters. Encoding the

JavaScript

The power of nested describes in Jasmine

I’m experimenting with the Jasmine JavaScript testing framework to see if I can create a cucumber style testing framework using JavaScript. I want to go full out TDD on it so I started with a feature file, now I’m working on a spec to get that file running.

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Adding elements to mustache.js templates

I’ve been experimenting with Mustache.js to do templating for a JavaScript project of mine. One thing that I’m having trouble with is that there’s no way to add more dynamic elements to the resulting template. The output is an HTML string. What I want to do

Books

Book Review: JavaScript the Good parts

Markus Andersson recently recommended a book to me called JavaScript the Good parts, by Douglas Crockford. As we were discussing inheritance around JavaScript it came up, so to demonstrate to power of my Kindle I purchased it so we could check out the specific example we were discussing. JavaScript the

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Home automation using TellStick and Linux

I got a Tellstick for Christmas together with some Nexa remote controllers for the lighting at home. I knew that this type of project needed to be started immediately or else it would just loose it self in a drawer somewhere. So I added some tasks to Track and Shuffle

analytics

My presentation at AS2010

I held a presentation at AS2010 about handling defects. The slides are up, unfortunately there is not text in the slides and there’s no audio track… but for those who wish to see my slides you can find the at: http://www.slideshare.net/agilasverige/hantera-felhantering

JavaScript

Are you writing JavaScript or JQuery?

I’ve noticed that more and more, when I search for infromation for JavaScript I search for JQuery not JavaScript. Have I reached the point that I consider developing JavaScript code to be JQuery development? It is of sort natural, as JQuery close to eliminates alot of the work required

JavaScript

RemoteX Localization Editor final touches

I’ve been working on a JavaScript client for our REST-service. So far it’s an editor for Localization and pick list options. But I was on a roll! So we charge by the amount of users each installation, lets add an easy way to calculate the amount of users.

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RemoteX Applications Localization Editor next step

In a previous post I mentioned that I started working on a localization editor for RemoteX Applications. This last week I started change a few things on the server side. In RemoteX Applications there are certain combobox’es where you can change the content to customer specific lists. Previously they

JavaScript

Testing JQuery AJAX communication code

I developed a JQuery Application using TDD these last couple of days. During the testing I used a new technique for testing my AJAX calls, so I thought I’d blog about how I test AJAX calls done by JQuery. First of you have to see that there are several

Architecture

JQuery: keeping your site-state in the addressbar

More and more sites are doing it. Keeping their state in the address bar of the browser, enabling AJAX driven dynamic html pages to use the back and forward buttons between javascript driven views. The most common website that uses this functionality, that I know of, is GMail. If you

Ajax

IETester

I found a new tool for testing web-applications in IE today. It’s called IETester, and it allows me to test IE versions 5.5 to 8 in the same application. Which is great, since my Vista machine only runs 8 normally. I use it to verify my Grails application

Ajax

Grails: Jetty and Character-encoding

Im doing something not supported. I’m serving html files through my Grails web-app running Jetty. Simply I have some static pages that will not change. I want them served uncompiled. I use the resources-first plugin to help out with serving these html files. The files are documentation, responses if

Grails

Grails: UI-Performance plugin - issue with encodings

After getting the UI-performance plugin to work, I started to address an issue I got with charsets and my js files. I have some Swedish messages in some of my JavaScript files, and as such they have Swedish characters. While I was branching them I managed to change the charset

Grails

Grails: UI-performance plugin

I installed the UI-performance plugin last night. Configured it to bundle my javascript code into a single compressed file. Did the same with my CSS files. With everything bundled and compressed the size of the the page download is reduced from 485 Kb to 187 Kb. I only had some

Ajax

Grails: Ajax Login using Basic Auth

So I have my Grails environment setup. The point is to build a REST-service that will work as a back end to a highly dynamic JavaScript page. I chose Grails, since it builds on Hibernate and Spring. Two frameworks Id like to examine for the purpose of seeing the differences