Archive for May, 2008

Test drive ProtoUI

May 27th, 2008  |  Published in General, Javascript, ProtoUI, Prototype, Scriptaculous, UI

Well we have been recieving a lot of emails since our last post regarding the UI library. We decided to provide an early access to some of the tests for the library and documentation around it. There is a lot of work still to be done and we hope to steer the project according to the feedback we recieve.

You can check out demos and docs here.

Feel free to post your comments/suggestion here.

ProtoChart - Create charts using Prototype and Canvas

May 22nd, 2008  |  Published in Javascript, Projects, ProtoChart, Prototype

Well this isn’t the first library to do this and it won’t be the last. Its not even 100% ready for release but I thought it will be great to get some initial feedback before even releasing any code.

This library (as mentioned in my last post) is heavily motivated and inspired by Flot (a jQuery based plotting library). Its not complete yet and its not that stable yet. So you might see few odd things happening here and there.

You can check out some tests here.

As always, please do give your comments and suggestions but do note that this is just something that I have been working on in my spare time so my replies might be a bit slow and your requested feature might not show up in the code fast enough. But it will be noted and implemented sooner or later.

What’s keeping us busy?

May 21st, 2008  |  Published in General, Javascript, Prototype, UI

Apart from the usual clientel work, we are working hard to bring our UI library to a stable release. A lot of work has been done and a lot more needs to be done. So keep checking the blog for latest updates on that.

This past long weekend (for us canadians) I decided to experiment with canvas and javascript. The reasonable thing to do was to build a simple charting script. After few hours of work and inspiration from Flot (jQuery plotting engine) here is the result:

Plot

Of course, this is completely based on Prototype and it supports the basic line chart, scatter plot, bar graphs and maybe next weekend I will add pie chart support to it. The code is still a bit messy so I won’t be posting it right now. I will probably wait till I am done with pie chart support before release an alpha and let you folks test it out.

So yeah a lot is going on but that doesn’t mean we don’t have time to chit chat with others. Feel free to throw us an email if you want to discuss about your next project or if you just want to say hello.

John Resig & his thursday release (updated)

May 9th, 2008  |  Published in General

John Resig has been working on something special that he will be releasing tonight. I am a big reader of John’s blog, he is one of the best Javascript developers that I have seen. So what could this surprise be?

His clue is:

  • Something small and fast.
  • Something large and pretty.

So what could it be? We shall know by tonight!

Update:

Well it is amazing what John can do with JS check out his “release” here: http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

ProtoUI - User Interface Lib (Prototype/Scriptaculous)

May 7th, 2008  |  Published in Javascript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, UI

Well its about time that we told you guys more about the User Interface Lib that we have been working on. Its far from being production ready but since we aim to launch it as an open source project we thought it might be useful to start getting some input from the community.

You can read initial docs but please note that documentation will be changing without any notice. You can also check out demos here.