jtinsky

I’m well on my way and every day that I use jQuery I find something else that keeps me coming back for more. Last night and tonight I wired up some simple AJAX functionality using the keyup function and the load function and a bit of PHP.

This stuff is SO useful and well worth the learning curve. The ability to make your site infinitely more usable is worth every second of your time.

I’ve been practicing GVIM by using it every day at work but I’m far from perfect. This reminds me of learning to surf. It was SO frustrating. I knew eventually it’d be fun but the learning curve was long and steep.

I truly admire people who are fluent in VIM. Jealous even…

There are tons of options and just figuring out how to set them and then how to make them persist is a challenge. I’m getting there though and my work is only about 5 times slower then when I do it in TextPad – a huge improvement from the 20 times slower of early last week.

Ever since I first saw gmail and google suggest I thought this new (then acronymnless) thing was just the kick in the ass the web needed. I tried a few times to make it all work before the groovy new javascript libraries were available with no joy.

Now I’m using jQuery for a few things and have a real understanding of how and where I can use AJAX on a real live project I’m working on.

I just purchased jQuery in Action which is a clean easy to read explanation of jQuery. So far I’ve been able to perform some minor javascript magic but no actual AJAX.