Category Archives: Tutorials

Clean up XML files in Vim

Sometimes we need to clean up XML files before being able to make sense of them. Here is a quick way to get nicely formatted and readable XML files while using Vim. Continue reading →

Compress JavaScript and CSS as Part of your Build Process

Web page performance is critical to keeping customers and visitors moving along on your site. Slow responses typically result in frustrated users, unhappy customers and worse, abandoned orders. It is important to reduce the number of requests generated by a web page in order to increase its actual and perceived performance. Continue reading →

ExtJS ComboBox Hidden Field Issues

Despite looking like a typical select box, Ext.form.ComboBox does not behave exactly as you would expect. It submits the display text instead of the selected option’s value. This post provides a solution to this problem. Continue reading →

Ext-JS Tasks & Progressbars a Match Made in Heaven

Chris Boersma posted this example of using TaskRunner and TaskManager to keep a user informed while a task is handled server-side.

Tutorial: Ext-JS Charting and Mapping with Google Visualizations

Aaron Conran posted an entry about Ext.ux.GVisualizationPanel, a user extension that takes advantage of the similarities between the Ext data store and Google’s data table to allow reuse of an Ext data store with Google’s Visualization API. Continue reading →

Tutorial: Flickr Photo Gallery

This demo shows you how to retrieve today’s top rated photos from Flickr as well as the most recent uploads using jQuery and phpFlickr. Continue reading →

Creating an Apple Style Menu with Animation

Kriesi Budschedl has posted a very detailed tutorial to help you build your own Apple.com style menu and adds a nice touch by animating it. Continue reading →

Google Maps Component for Ext-JS

Shea Frederick has created a user-defined extension to integrate Google Maps with ExtJS. Continue reading →

Flex-Ajax Bridge Tutorial

Here is an interesting tutorial about Flex and Ajax integration. April 6th, 2009 UPDATE – The original article appears to have been lost when webmonkey.com was redesigned. This other article of theirs references the same broken link. Sorry.

CFHTTP Trouble: Connecting to Web Services that Use GZip Compression

Rob Gonda posted this today, which I had also experienced while attempting to connect to the Yahoo! Maps API. The solution in my case was to add charset=”utf-8″ to the cfhttp call.