I recently had a requirement for a mapping application that required me to pass in longitude and latitude coordinates. It wasn’t realistic to have the user look those values up, so I had to figure out a way to automatically lookup the coordinates given a zip code. There are tons of pay services (some of [...]
Tag: jquery
February 18 / 2010
TinyMCE samples with ASP.NET MVC
After using Telerik’s RadEditor control for years with all my asp.net web form applications, I found myself looking for a javascript alternative when I moved up to MVC. Having paid top dollar for RadEditor (which is a fine product!) and never used TinyMCE, I couldn’t imagine something free could be that good. Well it is! [...]
February 08 / 2010
Use jQuery to change a form’s action url
This is another quick and dirty post, more for future reference when I need to access this snippet again! The scenario is if you have one form on a page, but want to change the target on the fly for whatever reason. Here are the two magical lines:
January 28 / 2010
Microsoft and Google jQuery CDN Link
So what is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)? In a nutshell, a CDN is a network of computers strategically placed around the world that serve up cached content to users. The content types include images, videos, style sheets, and in this case, script libraries. As you can imagine, your pages will load faster when browsers [...]
January 18 / 2010
Top 10 jQuery Functions and Plugins (Part II)
The following is the second part of a set of jQuery shortcuts I use at some point on a daily basis. If you missed part I, you can see them here. 5. Lightbox 2 Why do I like this? It is simple to integrate and very elegant looking. Need to group images together so the [...]
January 13 / 2010
