Ægir Þorsteinsson

Use jQuery plugin without a single line of JavaScript

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:00:28 +0000

I watched Jacob Thornton talk about Twitter Bootstrap at the Fluent conference today. The goal of Bootstrap is to be known as a glorified stylesheet and not focus as much on JavaScript. They implemented a data API so you can load a jQuery plugin without a single line of JavaScript. The only thing you need is to define a data- attribute for your element and you got your jQuery plugin loaded. This is pretty clever, but only works as long as the jQuery plugin implements the data API.

If you want to be able to load any jQuery plugin with a data- attribute, you can use the jQuery plugin loader that me and my friend @eirikurn have on Github. I use this plugin loader at work and it brings the ability to copy and paste markup between pages and all behavior and styling maintains. We have a team of web editors at work and they are not interested in writing JS, but are still able to bring JS functionality to their pages.

I forked his repo on Github and added some examples, go check them out.

https://github.com/thorsteinsson/jquery-pluginloader

The Twelve-Factor App

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:28:21 +0000

The Twelve-Factor App:

A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.

JavaScript pattern and antipattern collection

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:31:00 +0000

JavaScript pattern and antipattern collection

Git Hire for Reykjavik, Iceland

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:49:29 +0000

Git Hire for Reykjavik, Iceland:

My co-worker showed me this website today and apparently I am number one on the list for programmers in Reykjavik on Github. I wonder how they calculate the skills evaluation. There are very talented programmers below me.

Addy Osmani - Scaling Your JavaScript Applications - Part 3

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:57:26 +0000

Addy Osmani - Scaling Your JavaScript Applications - Part 3

Addy Osmani - Scaling Your JavaScript Applications Part 2

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:56:49 +0000

Addy Osmani - Scaling Your JavaScript Applications Part 2

Addy Osmani - Scaling Your JavaScript Applications Part 1

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:56:17 +0000

Addy Osmani - Scaling Your JavaScript Applications Part 1

JS1K

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:43:25 +0000

JS1K:

I am still thinking about what to create for the js1k competition this year.

Move the Web Forward

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:41:18 +0000

Move the Web Forward

The State of HTML5 Video

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:25:05 +0000

The State of HTML5 Video

The slides from my presentation on Knockout.js and SignalR. Many...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:38:43 +0000

The slides from my presentation on Knockout.js and SignalR. Many thanks to Steve Sanderson the creator of Knockout.js for the slides about Knockout.js.