OSX: How to make aliases (links) in Finder
Posted by tom November 29th, 2006
Hold ⌘⌥ and drag the file you want to link to another folder (where you want the link to appear). You’ll see that the icon you’re dragging has the alias/link icon next to it.
JavaScript Form Validation
Posted by tom November 28th, 2006
Today I found (again) some old source code which can be used for client-side form validation. Using an Array it can support validations on various form elements for: presence, date, time, numeric, alphanumeric. It was once available for download and it is now again: here.
I’m actually thinking about rewriting the whole code with the use of Prototype (for it to be included in PSUI). If you have any questions or comments: send me a mail (see the about page).
Prototype & Scriptaculous UI
Posted by tom November 26th, 2006
Both prototype and scriptaculous are amazing tools and certainly make it easier to code JavaScript, but I miss a centralized approach for developing and making use of widgets. Therefor I have an idea: PSUI (Prototype & Scriptaculous User Interface). PSUI will make use of easy to use XML tags, which will be replaced by XHTML.
Read the rest of this entryAgain started developing Cocoa again
Posted by tom November 25th, 2006
Last night I was working on a new small project of mine, which involves a small desktop application. Initially I thought about using RubyCocoa but for integration and speed with the OSX platform I chose Cocoa/Objective-C instead.
I’m no expert, more like a starter, but in about 3 hours I had a proof-of-concept application running. Cocoa is just brilliant, thanks Apple!
Rich Web UI's
Posted by tom November 24th, 2006
In my quest for finding the perfect Rich Web UI framework, I’ve come across quite a set. I just want to list them here, hope it’s useful for someone.
Open source
- Prototype & Scripaculous – General purpose framework, some Widgets.
- MochiKit – Some Widgets
- dojo – Lots of Widgets, feels heavyweight – pretty cool nonetheless!
- YUI – Yahoo! UI Library – Lots of Widgets
Commercial
- Backbase – Feels very heavyweight – but very cool!
There may will be more, decide for yourself!