Community Talk – February 2008
February 14, 2008 by Jack Slocum
I regularly hit technorati, DZone and Google looking for recent Ext JS related blog posts. There’s always quite a bit going on in the blogsphere and we are going to start sharing the interesting ones we find here on the Ext JS Blog. Here are some of the ones I have read recently.
Savvy Duck Blog
I was surprised to have just found this blog. Here’s a great quote from the author that made my day:
“My javascript started with Prototype 1.4 , then Dojo 0.4, JQuery, Prototype 1.5, Dojo 0.9, Prototype 1.6 and then settled on Ext 2.0. I kept cycling around because my application needed controls that the library either didn’t provide, and I had to write my own, or the library had the control and then I had to write enormous amounts of code to get simple stuff to work. Ext became a godsend because almost everything was straightforward and I could customize it without having to go really deep into the library’s code nor write a lot of code to get it to work. It took me a matter of weeks to wrap up my first project with Ext. I used it in a second project with a far more elaborate user interface and had it pretty much done in a couple of weeks too. I am still surprised.”.
There’s nothing I like to hear about more than a developer having success with Ext. It’s even better when that developer is willing to share their experiences and insight with others. His blog has quite a few Ext posts and they are all well written. Here are a few of them:
- Mixing Ext’s Grid with JQuery’s Flot
- Introduction to the Ext Grid Object
- Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0
Brice Mason on AOL Developer Network
Brice has 2 multi-part series of blog posts that cover developing full applications. The latest is built using Ext JS 2.0 in Adobe AIR.
- Adobe AIR Xdrive Picture Syncing: Part 1
- Adobe AIR Xdrive Picture Syncing: Part 2
- Adobe AIR Xdrive Picture Syncing: Part 3
- Adobe AIR Xdrive Picture Syncing: Part 4
- Creating an AOL OpenBlog Reader: Part 1
- Creating an AOL OpenBlog Reader: Part 2
Dan Vega’s Blog
Dan’s blog has a wealth of knowledge about using Ext 2.0 with Cold Fusion. He also posted a nice step by step tutorial about using Ext Forms that isn’t CF specific.
Getting Started with Ext Forms
More Posts
How to use the Ext JS Treeview (Ext.tree) with Ruby on Rails
The title says it all.
One Service Several Stores
Ext Stores with ASP.Net web services.
All about Ext.Button
A nice beginner oriented guide to Ext.Button.
Learn ExtJS AJAX: Defining grid properties at run time
Loading and configuring Ext grids over Ajax, instead of in the javascript source.
Are you blogging about Ext?
If you have written a blog post about Ext, please let us know by sending an email to news@extjs.com and we’ll cover it in the next Community Talk post.
Posted on February 15th, 2008 at 7:46 am
I’ve searched for blogs many times but in vain. It’s great to have a list of Ext blogs to follow!
Posted on February 15th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
[...] Ext JS Blog – » Community Talk – February 2008 – There’s nothing I like to hear about more than a developer having success with Ext. It’s even better when that developer is willing to share their experiences and insight with others. His blog has quite a few Ext posts and they are all well written. [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
The blog entry “Introduction to Ext Grid Object” is found at
http://savvyduck.blogspot.com/2008/02/javascript-introduction-to-ext-grid.html
It seems that accidentially the first entry was linked twice.
Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Thanks Michael. I corrected it above.
Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 7:36 am
популярность того или иного проекта, это не только пользовательская база или количество разработчиков, но и то, насколько активно освещают ту или иную разработку другие авторы. Тем более, что они часто очень профессионально и подробно разбирают различные нюансы и рассказывают о своём практическом опыте работы, что очень важно для новичков и тех, кто только собирается исследовать тот или иной проект. Этот выпуск “В сообществе говорят” (я именно так вольно перевёл название рубрики) посвящён ряду статей, которые будут полезны и профессионалам, и новичкам. В частности, отобраны материалы о работе со средой Adobe AIR, тонкости
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am
We are planning to use ExtJS with a portlet ’s JSP in IBM Websphere Portal server v6.0. The question or comment from sone one is that if the user turn-off JavaScript support on the browser, then ‘nothing’ will work in the portlet. I’m not sure that’s really true. I think ONLY the functions in the portlet’s JSP that was implemented by ExtJS will no longer function. Please validate my assumption.
david