Programming By A Tool

A while back, we put up an offer to write for our blog.  Only one has risen to the top as someone having both the technical know-how and the razor sharp wit required to write on a site such as this. ByATool.com Readers… Amy. Amy… ByATool.com Readers. Amy is a magnificent geek and almost 10 [...]

Example here. File this under “Why?” but I wanted to see if a child could talk to a parent and then receive information back from the parent to update itself with. As usual, my lack of intelligent wording probably has you scratching your head… if you do that. Personally I don’t get that expression as [...]

Being that I am the man, I thought I would share this little thingy with you because… well I’m the man. So here’s the issue:  You have a date picker, a modal dialog, and you can’t see the calendar when you click on the icon and/or textbox. First thought, ‘WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME???!?!’ [...]

This is quick one, so hold on to your… whatever. Want to get rid of that X at the top right of the modal “Control”? Well here it is: (The bold part, moron) jQuery(‘#WaitingDiv’).dialog({ autoOpen: false, bgiframe: false, height: 150, width: 200, modal: true, open: function(event, ui) { jQuery(‘.ui-dialog-titlebar-close’).hide(); } }); And that’s really it. [...]

So here’s a quick on for all you boys and girls… and anything else I might have missed. Say you want to check all check boxes in a grid or whatever, but you want it to toggle. So if if it’s time to check all, all get checked and then the next time the button [...]

Hello again, my wonderful audience, I have something great and fun planned for this post. If you read this post you might have been left wondering how to add custom messages to the error holder. It’s ok if you did, there’s nothing wrong with being confused all the time. It’s what makes you so adorable. [...]

You could look at this post as a self serving block that I will use to save stuff I don’t want to remember later. Or you could see it as a knowledge transfer that you the reader can learn from because I am a generous and giving tool. Whatever, I really don’t care. I won’t [...]

So you want to use jQuery validation, huh? What is it? Something that was added to the holy jquery site and is an easy way to validate input from users. Now this should in no way take over for server side validation, but it helps to at least catch a few things without having to [...]

Wow, that’s a mouthful far as titles go, but couldn’t think of a better way to say it. Now what I’m about to go through is the “system” I have found that works pretty well when it comes to structuring controllers knowing that there will be asynchronous operations. Why is that a big deal? Well [...]

So this is sort of a repeat of another post, but I figured it has some use on its own. Say you have this: <div> <input type=”checkbox” name=”JqueryIdList” value=”1″ /> <input type=”checkbox” name=”JqueryIdList” value=”2″ /> <input type=”checkbox” name=”JqueryIdList” value=”3″ /> <input type=”checkbox” name=”JqueryIdList” value=”4″ /> </div> <div onclick=”getIds(‘JqueryIdList’);”> CLICK </div> And you need the getIds [...]