uservoice.com – vote based forum
Just signed up for the free version of uservoice.com which is a very cool idea. You may have seen this kind of forum at stackoverflow.com where users can vote on each answer to a question. They have a pretty solid “Who’s using uservoice” page with customers like Sun, MySpace and so on.
The price ranges from free to not free 
. I chose the free version to be able to evaluate the service. If you have feature ideas for the Ext Scheduler, why not input them at http://scheduler.uservoice.com.
New book: “Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook” announced by Packt publishing
Packt publishing recently announced the new Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook. They provided me with a copy and asked me to do a review which I happily agreed to. Check back in a week or two to read my full review. Here’s some of the good stuff covered in the book:
- Master the Ext JS widgets and learn to create custom components to suit your needs
- Build striking native and custom layouts, forms, grids, listviews, treeviews, charts, tab panels, menus, toolbars and much more for your real-world user interfaces
- Packed with easy-to-follow examples to exercise all of the features of the Ext JS library
- Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible
So far there has only been a few books released about ExtJS so this book is definitely good news! It looks like a very interesting read judging from the TOC, click the image to learn more!
3rd Scheduler webcast – Creating a simple Gantt chart
Here’s another short webcast showing how you can turn the scheduler into a simple Gantt chart easily.
Enjoy!
Second webcast – Adding business logic to the scheduler
Just finished another webcast showing how to add some basic business rules into the scheduler. I’m currently working on a longer behind-the-scenes video that will explain how to implement and style the grid.
Enjoy!
Ext-Scheduler is now official
I’ve been working on a project for a while and now I feel it’s stable enough to go public with it. It’s a javascript based scheduler built upon the lovely ExtJS framework. I’ll be posting updates and implementation details in upcoming posts.
Check out the forum thread or go directly to the webcast.
Feedback or ideas welcome!
Update: JavaScript-beautifier bookmarklet – now works on selected text too
Updated my bookmarklet which does syntax highlighting and coloring (based on 2 other scripts). It now supports coloring of selected text which should come in handy, for example in forum posts like these:
Try it out yourself on these posts, just select the code text and fire the bookmarklet:
http://www.codetoad.com/forum/15_28462.asp
http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=392611#post392611
The source for the bookmarklet can be found in the Ext forums:
http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=393025#post393025
Enjoy!
New (?) google icon search
The google image search has changed a lot lately. A while back they added the feature to search by type (icon/photo/face) and colors. Now you can even specify exact size of your icon, which is very useful when you need to *cough* borrow *cough* icons to a demo UI for instance.
Testing all versions of IE, and almost enjoying it at the same time.
Testing web pages in multiple versions of IE is the part of my work that makes me wish I had geared my career towards toilet cleaning. Recently I discovered this little gem: IE Tester .
This makes testing different versions of IE a breeze, and you can easily see how crappy your pages look in IE6.
Enjoy!
