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When I start developing a new app that uses the Ext library, I first just include everything because it allows for rapid development in the initial stages. I never have to worry about if I'm including the right features. However, as the app matures -...

My favorite idiom by which I live as a developer is, "It's always the small things." By which I mean that when there's some catastrophic problem with my web page or software, I always scan for the little things first - missing semi-colons, syntax errors,...

Straight "out of the box" error handling functionality in the jQuery version of ajaxCFC is solid, but basic. The attribute useDefaultErrorHandler defaults to false, and when an error is thrown up to ajaxCFC, two things are done. The error is caught...

Ext 2.0 Alpha Announced

October 1, 2007 | In: ajax, tools

This is going to be an amazing release, and this preview should be enough to convince you. I'm currently using the 1.1 release for an application, and I can't wait to use some of the 2.0 feature in the future. For me, the Web Desktop is the most...

AJAX: Naming conflict in IE

April 11, 2007 | In: ajax

Learned a valuable lesson today after a frustrating 30 minutes of debugging.  I'm working on an Ajax powered site for a client of mine, and while it worked just fine in Firefox, IE was throwing one of its nefarious "Unknown Runtime Exception"...

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I am a technologist, and have been ever since 1980 when I got my very first TRS-80 and programmed it to do my math homework. I love to share the gift of technology with others and show them the wonderful things it can do for them, and how they should not fear it, but embrace it.

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