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In Part One, I discussed managing the scope of $(document).ready(). Next comes the challenge of organizing the contents of $(document).ready() to balance efficiency and maintainability. My team accomplishes this by taking advantage of the Array behaviors of jQuery to structure our code so that function dictates form. Put into practice, these behaviors will structurally organizing the code without imposing rules and processes—because we all know just how effective rules and processes are.
Welcome to the new and improved Braindonor Network. As you can see, I have completely updated the WordPress theme of this site. There are still some rough edges—but I liked the new theme so much that I was not willing to wait until everything was completely polished. The new theme is a combination of the barebones Sandbox theme and Twitter's Bootstrap.
Read MoreLeave it to O'Rielly to give a great summary of NoSQL—and express what I have been telling other developers. NoSQL is not a technology. It's a different way of looking at large data sets and data-driven applications. I have been busy adding NoSQL to my developer's utility belt lately by introducing MongoDB into the projects that I am building. I have already referenced my BrainDonor.Mongo project in some of my other posts. I like to think of it as my formal announcement that I am a card-carrying member of the NoSQL movement. For me, the movement is about not putting all my data eggs in one basket. When it comes to development languages and platforms, I am a true polyglot programmer—and I must extend that further into data.
Read MoreI've been asked by a large number of developers if I know any solid jQuery best practices. The answer is a huge YES! I'm also getting around to changing my answer to their immediate follow-up. Do you have them written down so you can share them with me? In an effort to change my answer to another huge YES, I am starting a series on jQuery Best Practices that will continue until I run out of steam. The first best practice that I have to share is how to properly manage the scope of your jQuery scripts.
Read MoreA common component of many of the websites that I build are small administrative areas where clients are able to perform tasks such as downloading leads or scheduling appointments. Until recently, most of those websites were built to run on top of a content management framework--with the CMS providing most of the back-end interface that I deliver. I started using Twitter's Bootstrap framework to deliver a consisten look and feel with our ASP.NET MVC3 applications. Bootstrap provided me with a clean CSS grid system, clean controls, and a host of other components. The biggest disconnect between Bootstrap and MVC3 is the unobtrusive validation.
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