bobpeers -> blog

First I should say that I’ve been very busy lately, hence the lack of posts on my blog, but I hope to rectify that situation soon.

I’ve been working on a new Intranet site at work and for the first time I decided to try using a JavaScript Library. I may be a bit behind the times but I’ve always preferred to code things from scratch myself. This is not from any purist point of view but just because I prefer to understand exactly how a site works and using a library abstracts away a lot of the underlying workings, of course I understand that this is the whole point of using a library.

Anyway there’s many libraries to choose from but I picked jQuery, mainly because it’s fast, small and easy to implement. I’ve been very impressed so far just how easy it is to learn and will definitely use it in future projects.

I’ve also added some charts using the Flot library in combination with jQuery, again it’s easy to use and creates great looking charts in JavaScript.