Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery

One of the important things about web programming, especially when using AJAX, from a usability standpoint is to provide a responsive user interface to the audience. This level of responsiveness to the user’s actions can be achieved in many different ways; showing messages, changing colors, adding animation, changing contexts, basically anything that provides a natural transition from the action performed by the user to the reaction by the application to indicate that their action is actually causing something to happen. ...

November 12, 2009 · 6 min · 1128 words · Nick Berardi

Is MVC Right For Your Application?

There is a simple way to tell if you can use MVC in your web application. If any of the following are true, you probably shouldn’t: You require the ViewState This includes any 3rd party control… Quick way to check this is disable ViewState and check to see if you application works as expected. You require post backs This usually is required by Web Forms or Microsoft AJAX Toolkit… Fortunately most of the post back functionality can be duplicated on the client side with AJAX. I fine jQuery makes a real easy job of this. So that is all that you need to ask your self when thinking of upgrading or deciding which route to take when planning your new application.

March 16, 2008 · 1 min · 121 words · Nick Berardi