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Real World Dojo part 5: Custom Components

Introduction It turns out that the file upload piece from last time (the User Feedback article) is going to be used over and over. And that I need to attach a drop-down to let the uploader specify what kind of license is associated with the file. In the dot net world, I'd be tempted to slap the code...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-28-2008
Real World Dojo part Four: User Feedback

So now we have a simple form that uses AJAX to upload a file and submits some metadata for the server to associate with that file. It doesn't really give any useful feedback, though. No real end-user's going to read the console, I'm not actually doing anything with the file upload progress...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-23-2008
Real World Dojo part Three: AJAX

When we finished up last time, we had an AJAX-ified form that uploads an image file . The problem now is that the "metadata" (the name and URL) are being completely ignored. It's ugly, but try adding them as GET variables to the upload path: It seems like I should just be able to update...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-23-2008
Real World Dojo part Two: File Upload

In my last post, I wrote about my research into doing client-side validation with Dojo (disclaimer, in case you haven't seen this a billion times before: this can never be trusted server-side...this is only a convenience for the client, not a security thing). There's a long story in that post...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-15-2008
Real World Dojo part One: Form Validation

Real World Dojo, part One (Basic Validation) The Scenario: I’ve kind of been nibbling around the edges of Dojo for a while, but I’m at a place in this project where I really need to buckle down and learn it. Since I’m having so much trouble finding real-life examples of the basics, I figured I’d share...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-14-2008
Manipulating the DOM with Dojo

This is the area where jQuery rules the roost. Or so everything I've read tells me. So, how does Dojo stack up? Still running this in parallel with Kyle's series: Setting the contents of an element // Convenience function to hide query details var element = dojo.byId('whatever'); element...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-08-2008
Selectors in Dojo

Selecting elements in dojo is really a very tiny piece of what it does. It uses CSS 3 selectors. If you haven't looked into them, check out CSS 3 selectors explained . It's a little disheartening, because IE still doesn't support most of these features (the IE 8 beta seems to have limited...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-06-2008
Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality advocates tell us that, if ISPs are allowed to pick and choose what kind of bandwidth they throttle the most, they'll, of course, discriminate against their competitors. Being the giant, evil, corrupt corporations they are (this is Microsoft and Google talking, BTW), they can't...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 07-21-2008
Some Open Source Ajax Frameworks

Introduction I've finally had a chance to look at AJAX again. Step one (for me) was to do some research into the different frameworks. The project this is for has nothing to do with .NET, so I still haven't had a chance to look at ASP.NET AJAX. (Well, nothing worth talking about. I helped a coworker...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 07-19-2008
Some Initial Thoughts on Google App Engine

More like observations, really. There's nothing here that's new or interesting, if you've been following it at all. But, if you've been mildly curious and haven't taken the time to really read anything at all, this may be worth your time. I was really excited about the app engine...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 06-05-2008

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