Here’s a simple message bus/broker I wrote for Ext.js 4 Ext.define('Ext.ux.MessageBroker', { extend: 'Ext.util.Observable', statics: { instance: null, setInstance: function(i) { this.instance = i; }, sendMessage: function(msg, data) { this.fireEvent('message',{"msg":msg,"data":data}); } }, constructor: function(config){ this.addEvents({ "message" : true }); if(config && config.listeners) this.listeners = config.listeners; Ext.ux.MessageBroker.superclass.constructor.call(this, config) } }, function() […]
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A demo of SOAPjr using PHP/Symfony and ExtJS is now available at http://dev.communitybookshelf.org/ This demo showcases these custom components: Backend: pSOAPjr sfSOAPjrActionPlugin Frontend eSOAPjr Questions/comments? We’d love to hear from you!
SOAPjr Demo
Recently I embarked on a quest to design a framework which would help us keep track of large and complex javascript projects in easily identifiable and extendable patterns. After some thought and deliberation, we eventually settled on the observer pattern using Ext’s Ext.util.Observable object as the base object to use […]
Primitive OOP observer pattern with ExtJS
I recently worked on improving performance in a labor scheduling application. The app was originally designed to load all the employees at one time in one large chunk, processing and stuffing the data into various places as needed on startup. This all worked fairly well on average stores with 50-100 […]
Cleaning up unresponsive script errors
For what it’s worth, here are some ExtJS specific resources I’ve found helpful: ExtJS Official Website, specifically the forum, API, and examples pages ExtJS UX repository for plugins Saki’s Extensions ExtJS GUI Builder
ExtJS resources
I've been tasked with speeding up a web 2.0 application based on ExtJS 2.2.0 that contains several routines that take up quite a bit of time and, because IE6's javascript processing engine is less than stellar ((In other words, it sucks pretty bad.)), I needed to find a way to "speed things up".
Multi-threading in Web 2.0
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to know how many Monday’s were in a given month via javascript and figured I would make the function (which depends on Date extensions by ExtJS) for it available here in case anyone else runs into the same problem. /* * […]