We have all been there, mucking around with code, thinking to ourselves "why does this component not have an X method?" or "where did all my scoped vars run off to?" spending valuable time debugging your code just to eventually find out that you have gone out of scope and didn't know it. The unfortunate thing is that its so incredibly easy to loose track of your scope, and not often are the result Read More...
May 2 09
Packt Author Award 2009
With a shiny new "Web 2.0" logo, Packt announced their Packt Author Award 2009. This is the first year they are giving this award away, and as luck would have it, my book - Learning ExtJS - is eligible for it. Packt will take the top five ranking books (based on votes) and send them to a review panel to be poked and prodded. The review panel will then pick what they determine to be the best book b Read More...
So I set aside a few hours over the past week to update my GMapPanel code with some new features and examples that I think would help everyone. Two new examples, and an update to one to add a form used for entering lat/lng or address to center the map on. Added locale support for the error messages that the map presents to the user - map locale support is still handled on Google's end of things.
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Chris Scott recently published a blog post outlining the current books available for ExtJS. He makes some excellent points about the approaches used in each of these books (or at least the two currently available).
Learning Ext JS takes a top-down approach to teaching Ext JS ... this approach will certainly immerse the reader quickly into a number of common techniques used througo Read More...
Jan 22 09
Getting Started With Grid Drag & Drop
This tutorial builds on the demo code included with the Learning ExtJS book, specifically the 7_json_grid.php example from chapter 5 - which can also be downloaded here.
The code for this tutorial can be downloaded here, and a live example is available here.
Were going to implement a fairly simplistic grid drag and drop. This implementation will allow you to drag a row of data to re-order it wit Read More...
Jan 19 09
ExtJS Baltimore/DC Meetup
I know many of you in the Baltimore/DC area have been excited about the prospect of getting together and being able to exchange knowledge. So I am announcing the Balto/DC JavaScript user group's first meeting which will happen on February 3rd. We will continue to meet on the first Tuesday of each month. While the group is not specific to ExtJS, its likely that many of our topics will include ExtJS Read More...
In an obvious moment of insanity, the company Coolite has decided to provide free copies of the Learning ExtJS book with license purchases. Their sales are sure to skyrocket due to this book being included.
But in all seriousness, I really appreciate that a company producing such a robust ExtJS integration toolkit would include my book. If your a ASP.NET developer, and are interested in creating Read More...
Dec 17 08
ExtJS San Francisco Meetup
One of the first ExtJS specific meetups I know of happened in San Francisco last week. The host Peter Kellner tells me it was a great success and everyone involved enjoyed it. My publisher Packt agreed to donate a book to the event to be raffled off.
Here is a quote from Peter's blog about the event:
"At our first meetup, we talked about EXT some and also raffled off a copy of the new ExtJS book Read More...
Dec 10 08
Learning ExtJS Book Bugs
This post exists strictly for the purpose of having a place to report errors/bug found in the Learning ExtJS book and code samples. You can also email me with anything you find via the contact form on this site, however posting them here will cut down on duplicate reports of errors.
Anyone interested in the most up to date code samples to accompany the book is welcome to check out a copy from SVN Read More...
Nov 30 08
Learning ExtJS Book Available Now
After months locked in my cave, cut off from the ExtJS community, I have finally stepped toward the light. We now have the very first technical book about the ExtJS library, 'Learning ExtJS', which will serve as a resource for beginners and intermediate ExtJS users alike. We packed this thing with a ton of great insider tips to using ExtJS.
Cutter, Colin and I worked together to bring all the mos Read More...
