Friday, January 27, 2012

jQuery Animated Graph Now On github

It's Finally Here
Well, as promised, I have finally posted the Animated Graph plugin on github. Sorry about the delay, but life happens. I've included a demo project in the repo so you can see the plugin in action.
Post any comments or bugs on github please.

jQuery Animated Graph Plugin

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A Fresh Start to Spine.js for ASP.NET MVC with MeetSpine.js- Part 3

A Fresh Start to Spine.js for ASP.NET MVC with MeetSpine.js- Part 1
A Fresh Start to Spine.js for ASP.NET MVC with MeetSpine.js- Part 2

ASP.MVC Setup

Now that we have the majority of the Spine stuff out of the way, it's time to turn to our ASP.MVC Project. Let's first start by adding a file to our project that will make life quite a bit easier later. Add a new folder to the project at the root level called Helpers. Then add a new class called AssetHelpers to your Helpers folder. We're going to use this class to help offload some of the tedious tasks and hopefully save ourselves some time later. Here is the code that was left out of Kazi's tutorial.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A Fresh Start to Spine.js for ASP.NET MVC with MeetSpine.js- Part 2

Welcome to the 2nd part of A Fresh Start to Spine.js for ASP.NET MVC with MeetSpine.js which is a helper to using Kazi Manzur Rashid's post, Meet Spine. If you're new, you may want to check out part 1 first.

Getting Jasmine Spec Runner Running

Unfortunatly, there isn't a whole lot of help here that Kazi give us regarding how we need to configure the Jasmine Spec Runner. We know that we need out page to look like the image to the right, but how do we get there?

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

A Fresh Start to Spine.js for ASP.NET MVC with MeetSpine.js- Part 1

In the past, JavaScript has been looked down on as buggy and on a use only when you can't do without basis. When I was in college, I had an ASP.NET WebForms teacher tell us that we shouldn't even use JavaScript because it would soon be dead. That statement couldn't be further from the truth. With the introduction of jQuery and other libraries, JavaScript is no longer the ugly duckling of the programming world.

JavaScript has even entered the MVC world with the introduction of frameworks such as Backbone.js and Spine.js. The problem with these frameworks is that there tends to be a huge learning curve for those use to "traditional" JavaScript.