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Helium: a package server for JavaScript

In Git, Helium, JS.Class, JavaScript, Metaprogramming, Ojay, PackR, Ruby, Yahoo! UI on 2 November 2009 with 7 comments

Last week, my former employer theOTHERmedia open-sourced the last project I worked on there: Helium. It’s a web application that lets you deploy JavaScript packages from Git and load them on-demand into any website by including a single script tag. There’s been a lot of innovation in JavaScript deployment recently, and Helium fits a particular [...]

Ojay 0.4.0: a new Tabs package, custom DOM events and other goodness

In JavaScript, Ojay, Yahoo! UI on 29 April 2009 with no comments

We (which is to say, theOTHERmedia) just pushed out version 0.4.0 of Ojay, our JavaScript library that builds on top of the Yahoo! User Interface library. Also I just realised that I never properly announced the 0.3 release (which came out in December) here, so I should probably catch you up in case it looked [...]

Where did all my code go? Using Ojay chains to express yourself clearly

In ChainCollector, Functional, JavaScript, Ojay, Yahoo! UI on 16 July 2008 with no comments

I’ve been putting together a presentation to be given internally at work on what Ojay is and why we’re doing it. It occurred to me that I’ve not spoken very much about it here, hoping the documentation and examples would speak for themselves. So, today I’m going to go through how to take an animation [...]

Ojay 0.2.0: easy keyboarding, a validation DSL, and two new UI widgets

In Functional, JavaScript, Ojay, Yahoo! UI on 13 June 2008 with no comments

It’s been about four months since our last release (and I really did want this to happen about a month ago, but I’ve only so much time), and now we have a new version of Ojay for you to download and play around with. It’s a drop-in replacement for 0.1.x so you really have no [...]

Anything that can be automated should be

In JavaScript, Ojay, Yahoo! UI on 11 May 2008 with no comments

I’ve been using a few bits of YUI’s widget library lately and am constantly surprised by the markup requirements they list in the examples. For example, if you want a text field to be autocompletable, you need to use the following markup: <div id=”myAutoComplete”> <input id=”myInput” type=”text”> <div id=”myContainer”></div> </div> Given their stated commitment to [...]

Automated example code displays

In Functional, JavaScript, Ojay, Yahoo! UI on 4 April 2008 with no comments

I’ve been writing some code examples for some of the UI components I’m writing for Ojay, and I need to display the implementation code and stylesheet on the page. Pretty standard fare: here’s a UI example, and here’s the code you need to implement it. Easy. Trouble is, I don’t want to duplicate the code [...]

Announcing Ojay, the nice way to use YUI

In ChainCollector, JS.Class, JavaScript, Metaprogramming, Ojay, Yahoo! UI on 22 February 2008 with 3 comments

I’ve been wanting to talk about this project for weeks if not months, and now I finally can. the OTHER media (the web shop I work for) is open-sourcing Ojay, a project I’ve been developing on-and-off since I started at the company back in October. It’s a wrapper for the core DOM, event, animation and [...]