http://www.nwhite.net Nathan White [ Web Developer ] Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:10:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In recent weeks my plate has been full as I plan for a big move. When I get stressed I usually play a game of chess to help relax a bit. Last night I took a different approach. I created my own brain teaser. I haven't played golf with ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=404 José Prado just released the MooDocs Coda plug-in . The plug-in allows Coda to parse MooTools Classes and generates a Markdown formatted template ready to fill in with details. I took his great work and modified it for TextMate. I packaged it as a single command that installs into the Javascript ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=390 After releasing the "magnetic poetry" demo I have been working hard trying to make the code more reusable for all. In the process there has been a name change from Rubberband to Lasso. The original Rubberband code has been a great source of inspiration, but not much is left of ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=328 With the release of my demo last week I have had many requests to make a public API. In the process of doing so I have run into a lot of things with classes that I haven't encountered before. This has led to quite a bit of frustration because of ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=307 I am getting the impression that my previous post was a bit esoteric. It has some valid uses and I want to help visualize how you might use the 'visualSort' method on Elements. Lets first take a look at the demo I put up. In the above image we have selected 5 ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=291 As promised I have been cleaning up the code to my most recent demo. I will be releasing a much more polished API along with documentation in the near future. Stay tuned. I just completed one of the biggest headaches. Visual sorting. This allows DOM elements to be sorted in the ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=279 I knew after posting Drag.Group I needed to get a demo up quickly. The code is not completely refined yet so use at your own risk. I will be making updates over the next couple of days and will keep you posted. A while back ago I posted an update to ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=270 Update Check out the demo. I have been playing around with creating more advanced UI components recently. I ran into the need to be able to drag multiple items at a time. I created the following classes to solve my problem. It is important to know that this code is still in ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=266 Someone recently posted the question "Mootools link nudging?". I honestly wasn't familar with the term, at first I thought it was an SEO trick. I fired up google and quickly learned it was a css padding animation trick. I saw that David Walsh did a version in jquery $('a.nudge').hover(function() { //mouse ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=258 I rarely find myself in a place where I am writing javascript applications that use AJAX in its pure form. I have long abandoned the 'X' and replaced it with 'J' (JSON). When working with Javascript, it just makes sense to return JSON. Smaller footprint, easier parsing and an ... http://www.nwhite.net/?p=242