http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net The coding horrors of Lloyd Kinsella. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:24:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent the weekend working on writing a better API wrapper for Litmos, if you don't know what Litmos is it's a Learning Management System; it's quite simple and uses ExtJS in some parts and has a nice REST API for management which is the part I've been wrapping. Litmos itself ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=215 Just to announce although a bit late for April, but I've recently wrote two articles for JSMag. I highly recommend JSMag to any JavaScript developers who may be reading this. My first article in April details with using on-demand JavaScript loaded with ExtJS - http://www.jsmag.com/main.issues.description/id=31/ The second article, for May details implementing ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=211 I had some spare time this evening so I started to play around and wrote my own client side JavaScript object cache for use with ExtJS. It's fairly simple to use with get/set functions to call and works in terms of seconds, for example to cache a simple JavaScript object ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=206 Bored this evening I decided to tinker with Aptana Studio as it has a nice plugin to create Adobe AIR applications. Using this I combined it with ExtJS to produce an AIR application of the documentation which saves you having to use the temperamental ExtJS servers (at the moment) or ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=198 I haven't posted in quite a while so I thought I'd pass up a quick alteration to the standard Ext.MessageBox. Now the original Ext.MessageBox works well however a lot of my windows have buttons with images, including the buttons like "OK" and "Cancel". In order to keep with the look and ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=192 I've been working on implementing caching into some of our products to increase efficiency and speed things up, however I came to a sticking point recently in that our products are often deployed to widely different platforms that don't all offer the same feature set. This meant that caching on ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=185 One of the things I like in .NET is the StringBuilder class and since like .NET, JavaScript strings are immutable it makes sense to have one for JavaScript too. I've wrote a simple approximation that uses Array and Array.join(). I've built this version for use with Ext however you can easily ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=176 One of my annoyances with Ext is sometimes some of the widgets only half do what you want and only half support features you'd expect. Take the TreeLoader, responsible for loading nodes into a Tree. It works well most of the time and I don't usually need to complain about it, ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=173 One thing we've often found useful but underused is response caching, especially in the Web 2.0 world. There are a variety of options available and here's a quick example of how to use the built in caching in ASP.NET. For our example we're going to cache for no more than 10 ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=165 I was bored this afternoon so spent some time playing around writing an interpreter in .NET for BrainFuck. It works for the most part though I have had it do odd stuff but I'm not sure why, I'll revisit it later perhaps. You can download the code here.It's in RemObjects ... http://codeology.lloydkinsella.net/?p=159