Chris Nizzardini

Salt Lake City, Utah Developer / Human / Blogger

JavaScript and Ajax

Simplifying adding new routes in Davis.Js

Davis.js is a library that allows you to use your back button in single-page ajax driven applications. It essentially binds events to all anchor tags on the page and intercepts them before the browser does its native execution. Davis then looks in its routes table and if that href exists in its table then Davis adds [...]

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How Lazy Loading JavaScript Reduces Page Load and Optimizes Application Performance

If you’ve ever built a large JavaScript application in any of the popular libraries out there like jQuery or MooTools you quickly find yourself including a lot of different libraries. In a recent jQuery based application our team was using additional libraries like dataTables and MultiSelect. We also knew that we’d be using even more [...]

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Profiling Execution Time in JavaScript and the Perils of jQuery .append()

HI I’m Chris and I’ve been living under a rock because I just barely learned about using the console.profile() function in conjunction with FireBug. Better late than never. I was trying to figure out why appending data to an HTML table with jQuery was so damn time consuming. A quick google search yielded the awesome [...]

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A Sneak Peak at Moo2Complete, MooTools Plugin For Auto Completion

It’s been a while since I’ve written a community plugin for MooTools suitable for MooForge. My last one was FbModal about a year ago and before that was the MooTools TableSorter.  Well I started a new project earlier this month and was looking around for a suitable MooTools based auto completer.  I was thoroughly unimpressed with [...]

MooTools Table Sorter 0.9.6 released

MooTools Table Sorter version 0.9.6 released on November 15, 2010.

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MooTools Form Snippet – Easy Ajax Form Submissions

This function just gets all the data in a form and returns it in a string fit for AJAX communication over either HTTP POST and HTTP GET. Just pass the form element as the parameter.

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FbModal 0.9.x – A MooTools Window Modal Overlay

This MooTools javascript window modal overlay window is designed to look similar to the modal used by a prominent social networking site based on the original work done by David Walsh.

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MooTools Table Sorter 0.9.5

Learn how to use the MooTools TableSorter. Documentation covering the MooTools TableSorter developed by me.

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best way to load your JavaScript

Interesting article over at Ajaxian on loading your javascript code. I’m not sure this is the best way in all cases, but when you’re coding in a world of frameworks, multiple js files, wysiwyg editors, and framework plugins and widgets it definitely makes sense in many circumstances.

MooTools Framework Javascript Key Listener

Using the MooTools Framework to listen for keycodes in JavaScript and other events.

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