Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications

Today we’re going to look at the end-to-end tools and options you have for building large-scale enterprise jQuery applications. Although jQuery is an excellent JavaScript library and provides a well-designed set of tools for development, it’s focus on staying compact and making the DOM easy to use has meant that it doesn’t provide a significant infrastructure for building large-scale apps.

jQuery does however normalize things across browsers and serves as a great way of doing DOM manipulation. Using it to it’s strengths, you can select some excellent tools to use along-side it as a toolkit for your larger-scale app development.


Some developers have argued in the past that building RIAs using Dojo, MooTools or YUI may be more suitable for large-scale JavaScript applications than simply opting for jQuery, however, I believe you can implement a solution using it that is equally as good without too much extra effort.

In this post we’ll be looking at ways you can put together a toolkit for large-scale jQuery application development by identifying the options you have available at the moment for dependency management, MVC with jQuery, templating, testing, minification and more.

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Use an old Satellite Dish as a Wi-Fi Range Booster

Use an old Satellite Dish as a Wi-Fi Range Booster

My Favorite Programming Fonts for Visual Studio Development

I spend almost 6 hours everyday, working on Visual Studio. That makes me experiment with the type, color and size of the fonts I use in my IDE, to make my development environment look hot and fresh! Here’s a list of my favorite programming fonts. Please note that this list is just my personal preference.

Original post from DevCurry.com here.

Consolas

DejaVu Sans

Monaco

Lucida Console

 

 

Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery

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jQuery 1.4.3 API Cheat Sheet

As usual, our Russian friends updated Cheat Sheet for jQuery 1.4.3 Here
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Best jQuery Plugins - September 2010

Best jQuery Plugins - September 2010, Original post  Here .

Snippet :: jQuery Syntax Highlighter

Snippet is a jQuery syntax highlighting plugin built on top of the SHJS script found on SourceForge. Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.
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Exposure
 
Exposure is a jQuery plugin for rich and smart photo viewing that can handle very large amounts of photos.

$ ulSlide

This plugin will help you to add slide and fade effects to the site in more simple way.
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Easy Gallery

An easy jquery image gallery slider. Simple code and simple HTML code.
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IMGr :: jQuery Image Rounder

IMGr is a jQuery plugin for rounding image corners. The script utilizes CSS3 in modern web browsers, and VML in Internet Explorer 8 and below.
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Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps

As part of creating an "information architecture" for developer guidance at Microsoft, one of the tasks means mapping out what we already have.  That means mapping out out our Microsoft developer content assets across Channel9, MSDN Developer Centers, MSDN Library, Code Gallery, CodePlex, the All-in-One Code Framework, etc.

You can browse our Developer Guidance Maps at http://innovation.connect.microsoft.com/devguidancemaps

Original J.D. Meier's Blog Here .