jQuery Table Sorting
I just saw a great post over at Ajaxian. It details a new jQuery plugin to easily enable sorting on a table. The features look awesome - multiple column sorting being one of them! Definately worth checking out.
Month: August, 2007
When AJAX aint right for the job
JavaScript/AJAX isn’t always the best tool for the job. Over the last 2 years, I’ve been the principal developer on the CRM project at work. For most of that time, it has primarily been a Javscript, Web-enabled application.
Recently, we have realised that we’ve hit the wall with what is possible with JavaScript and HTML (especially when the target platform is IE6+). We are now moving to the Java-based RCP (Rich Client Platform), which is part of the Eclipse framework.
I believe that JavaScript frameworks have a place, but I do not think it is within enterprise-critical applications. When the environment is controlled and scalability and performance is a factor, you should carefully consider your options before joining the AJAX bandwagon.
What have I been doing?
Well, I’ve been extremely busy building the next version of our internal CRM application. It’s built on top of Ext (primary used for utility classes) and our own “JCP” framework (Javascript Client Platform). I’ll be doing a few posts in the coming days/weeks about that, as I have got a few nuggets of wisdom to share about JScript development on IE.
And… I’ve got to upgrade my version of wordpress!