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ItemFileReadStore and the hierarchical Parameter
One cunning trick in Dojo can be to use an ItemFileReadStore class (or its read-write brother, ItemFileWriteStore) to take a list of data, often from an array in memory, and provide the ability to sort...
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Installing dojotoolkit.org-equivalent local documentation
The Dojo API documentation available through dojotoolkit.org is really handy for Dojo developers, but sometimes it can be handy to have this available offline, for development when you don’t have...
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Returning a Deferred object within a Deferred Callback does The Right Thing
dojo.Deferred is very cool, but it’s very easy to tie yourself up in knots. It’s worth spending some time reading about it. The official API doc is good, as is this article which discuss what’s new in...
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Constructing a Lightweight Generic Function Trace Mechanism for Javascript
(I’ve brought together the ideas for this concept from various places – thanks to this answer on Stack Overflow and in turn this page for information about arguments.callee). Oftentimes, when you’re...
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dojo.hitch and dojo.partial pattern – simplification
Updated 2010-03-15: Heavily re-edited to account for previous post and incorporate some new understanding about dojo.hitch. Tom wrote a few weeks ago about a code pattern that involves combining...
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“use strict” coming in Internet Explorer 10
I’ve just been trying out the Internet Explorer 10 preview, which was announced today. Like Firefox 4, which I wrote about some time ago, it appears it will support use strict, which allows for some...
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Seeing the JavaScript console when writing PhoneGap applications in Eclipse
Recently I’ve been doing some work with writing PhoneGap/Dojo Mobile applications for Android, using Eclipse as the IDE. These work just fine with the Android emulator, but it took me a while to find...
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Displaying and Styling a Read-only Dojo Tree Control
In this tutorial, we are going to be using the Dojo toolkit – a popular JavaScript tookit shipped with the IBM Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile. Specifically, we are going to be using the dijit.Tree...
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Functional Mapping Across Object Attributes in Dojo
Recently I discovered the very useful function dojox/lang/functional.mapIn(). This allows you to functionally transform one object to another by mapping each value in the object using a callback...
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Chrome Developer Tools Tricks
This post is a round-up of some of the less-known debugging tricks I’ve learnt about related to the Chrome Developer Tools window. You might know some, but hopefully there’s at least one in here which...
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Where do I specify the hostname of my Worklight server?
When developing a Worklight application, there are various places the hostname of your Worklight server might need to be specified, and might end up: In the mobile app itself (the .ipa, .apk etc.) –...
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Transforming worklight.properties values in JNDI properties suitable for...
If you’re working with a Worklight application, you might like to exploit the fact that Worklight allows you to programmatically retrieve custom values from the worklight.properties file defined in...
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.gitignore for Worklight
I have recently started maintaining a .gitignore template file for IBM Worklight Foundation on github, in a similar spirit to the standard gitignore repository. Please feel free to take a look; just...
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