Breaking Development 2011 Nashville – Mobile Goodness

On September 12th, 2011 the Breaking Development conference rolled into Nashville. With two full days of talks and one full day of workshops, this single-track, superbly organized event did not disappoint. Previously in Dallas, Breaking Development: Nashville focused on new, emerging techniques for web development and design for mobile devices. Topics of the talks included read more »

Using jQuery Datepicker and Dialog Box To Select Date Range

Using a jquery datepicker in a jquery dialog box to select a date range is a handy, slick way of having users input dates. Date handling and validation in forms when input by the user can be tricky at best. Here a modal dialog box will be used to allow the user to select a read more »

Targeting Dynamic Element IDs with jQuery

When elements are added dynamically through a scripting language (usually by a database pull) they can have sequential identifiers in one or more of their attributes. For this example, a series of checkboxes that, when checked, will populate an input box by matching up the numeric portion of the id attribute. To make the matching read more »

Using jQuery Autocomplete When Remote Source JSON Does Not Contain ‘Label’ or ‘Value’ Fields

If the jQuery autocomplete plugin uses a remote datasource, the autocomplete expects it to return json data with a ‘label’ and/or a ‘value’ field. If you return one, either ‘label’ or ‘value’, the autocomplete uses it for both the suggestion menu and the value of the input box. If you return both, it uses the read more »

Javascript Array to JSON String with JSON.stringify

JSON.stringify is a great little function that I keep forgetting to utilize. It’s here for reference. Fiddle Hit ‘Result’