How many Mondays are in the month of…
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to know how many Monday’s were in a given month via javascript and figured I would make the function (which depends on Date extensions by ExtJS) for it...
View ArticleMulti-threading in Web 2.0
I’ve been tasked with speeding up a web 2.0 application based on ExtJS 2.2.0 that contains several routines that take up quite a bit of time and, because IE6′s javascript processing engine is less than...
View ArticleExtJS resources
For what it’s worth, here are some ExtJS specific resources I’ve found helpful: ExtJS Official Website, specifically the forum, API, and examples pages ExtJS UX repository for plugins Saki’s...
View ArticleCleaning up unresponsive script errors
I recently worked on improving performance in a labor scheduling application. The app was originally designed to load all the employees at one time in one large chunk, processing and stuffing the data...
View ArticlePrimitive OOP observer pattern with ExtJS
Recently I embarked on a quest to design a framework which would help us keep track of large and complex javascript projects in easily identifiable and extendable patterns. After some thought and...
View ArticleSOAPjr Demo
A demo of SOAPjr using PHP/Symfony and ExtJS is now available at http://dev.communitybookshelf.org/ This demo showcases these custom components: Backend: pSOAPjr sfSOAPjrActionPlugin Frontend eSOAPjr...
View ArticleSimple message bus for extjs 4
Here’s a simple message bus/broker I wrote for Ext.js 4 Ext.define('Ext.ux.MessageBroker', { extend: 'Ext.util.Observable', statics: { instance: null, setInstance: function(i) { this.instance = i; },...
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