February 1, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Discovering UJS with AJAX

Having worked with Rails a while I’d heard of UJS as being Unobtrusive JavaScript.  I had thought that it was simply a pattern of writing your JavaScript in a JS file to be called via a method call rather than inline JavaScript within elements in the view.  So I had definitely overlooked the benefit of…

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January 12, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Vanilla JavaScript – Stepping into the language

When you see “vanilla JavaScript” it’s titled for not having any added “flavors” of JavaScript.  Not to be confused with the Vanilla-JS framework.  In other words it’s the unadulterated original language.  On my blog post about JavaScript being easy with jQuery I received a few comments about JavaScript being easy anyway.  jQuery is designed so…

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January 8, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

JavaScript is easy with jQuery

If I had only known how easy it would be to pick up JavaScript with jQuery I would have learned it a long time ago.  But I had allowed a glimpse of obscure looking JavaScript to deter me in the same way Java kept me from learning programming for years. When I first wanted to…

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