http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog Push it. You know you want to. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:22:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love getting coupons in email.  I also love Sports Authority. http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/11/sports-authority-coupon/ .coding { background-color: #1b1d1e; color: #f8f8f2; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; width: 400px; overflow-x: auto; padding: 3px; border: 3px solid #999; } li { font-size: 13px; } Continuing from my last post. Some notes: You can give a wrapped set as a second argument ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/11/jquery-autocomplete-plugin-2/ .coding { background-color: #1b1d1e; color: #f8f8f2; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; width: 600px; overflow-x: auto; padding: 3px; border: 3px solid #999; } li { font-size: 13px; } Some notes from looking at Yehuda Katz and Rein Henrichs autocomplete plugin: I don't understand when ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/11/jquery-autocomplete-plugin/ .coder { background-color: #1b1d1e; color: #f8f8f2; font-family: georgia, serif; overflow-x: auto; padding: 3px; border: 3px solid #999; } I wanted to take a look at the templating plugin included in the jQuery distribution (for some reason, there is no documentation of it on jquery.com, this is the same templating ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/11/jquery-templating-plugin/ I love it, the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir play Sweet Home Alabama. http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/10/leningrad-cowboys-red-army-choir/ Found this site, which is directly relevant to our coupons module: Coupons.com How did i find this little gem? I just typed in coupons.com into my url bar. Why not, i thought. Few interesting points: Enter your zip code and tada! coupons for your area. Sounds like someone else's plan ... :) Clearly aimed at ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/10/coupons-everywhere/ Hmmm, had a hard time naming this since I couldn't think of a title that was succinct and more descriptive than the generic one above.  Any suggestions?  Update: it's official! In honor of Transformers everywhere, it's now called autobox. Anyway, let's just show the plugin: TextboxList with Autocomplete ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/10/jquery-dynamic-textboxlist/ Ha! Writing this post from shiny new macbook pro 15". Very fancy indeed, in fact, i could buy three basic Dells for this price. Or two pretty slammed Dells, plus a Dell mini. Initial thoughts? LOVE the multitouch pad. Two fingers to scroll, brilliant. I'm a complete keyboard shortcut fiend, so ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/10/i-am-now-a-mac/ Looked for some resources to help with form validation design and found some good links: jQuery Validation Basic stuff, our baseline (since we use jQuery validation) Yahoo Signup Page I've always loved how this page does validation (hit submit without filling in any fields) 47+ Excellent Ajax Forms Self proclamation Smashing Magazine Web Form ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/09/form-validation/ I don't know why Java web companies do not communicate architecture and design more often.  It seems like the Ruby guys and the PHP guys or the Perl guys talk about how they do things.  For example, the classic LiveJournal backend scaling presentation. One exception: LinkedIn does a fantastic job of ... http://www.bigredswitch.com/blog/2008/09/java-enlightenment/