Archive for May, 2009

I’ve uploaded a revised jQuery UI Spinner widget, version 1.10, based upon a lot of excellent feedback from the jQuery UI team. New features include mousewheel scrolling, decimal support, customizable prefixes/suffixes for currency/percents, improved input masking and maxlength handling, HTML5 markup support, lots of bug fixes, and more. jquery.ui.spinner Git Repository jQuery UI Spinner Widget [...]

A problem that I have commonly run into is trying to secure communications using SSL or other encryption for a intranet application. In this scenario, it is unnecessary to have a secure certificate signed by an expensive Internet authority. And often it is intended for deployment in a small-scale scenario where there might not be [...]

In a project I was working on I was using jQuery UI and wanted to put a spinner on a numeric text box.  Then I discovered that jQuery UI, while an excellent UI library, doesn’t yet have a spinner widget.  So I decided to write one myself, and hope that one day it gets included [...]

In the last few months, I’ve discovered jQuery and jQuery UI, which are a pair pretty awesome of open source javascript libraries.  I know, I’m a little behind the times here, but all I can say is “Wow”.  Frankly, using jQuery makes the AJAX library that comes with .NET 3.0/3.5 from Microsoft seem foolish and [...]

I’ve moved my blog away from Blogger and the blog.btburnett.com address.  Now you can find me at btburnett.com and using WordPress.  Hopefully I’ve got all the feeds and pages redirected properly, please let me know if you find any problems.  Thanks!