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  • Converting from Clarify Desktop to Dovetail Agent (part 3)

    Welcome to part 3 of the series on converting an application from the Clarify Desktop environment to work in Dovetail Agent/Admin. The Employee Manager Utility (EMU) is being migrated into Dovetail Admin, and will provide the tools needed to manage workgroups and the employees that are assigned to them. In the installment of the series, the ...
    Posted to Sam Tyson (Weblog) by styson on July 16, 2010
  • Converting from Clarify Desktop to Dovetail Agent (part 2)

    This is the second installment of a series of posts on migrating applications/enhancements from the Clarify desktop application to Dovetail Agent features. The plan was for this post to cover converting Clarify Forms into Dovetail Agent/Admin pages. That is a great idea, but a very ambitious goal for a single post. I will be making a few posts ...
    Posted to Sam Tyson (Weblog) by styson on July 15, 2010
  • Prototype Process and Tools

    I’ve been working on a project recently that involved mockups and prototyping for a mobile web application. I wanted to share some of the process and tools that I found useful. Sketches I first started out with low fidelity sketches. Paper and markers. Easy to draw, markup, and hack up. Checkpoint: Sit down with the developers to walkthrough ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on June 18, 2010
  • jQuery 1.4 breaks ASP.Net MVC actions with array parameters

    We had a Ajax-ified page break on us today and eventually figured out that the cause was related to an upgrade of jQuery and in particular a change in how jQuery 1.4 does serialization of array parameters for Ajax operations. From the jQuery 1.4 Release Notes. jQuery 1.4 adds support for nested param serialization in jQuery.param, using the ...
    Posted to Kevin Miller (Weblog) by kmiller on February 24, 2010
  • I love jQuery like this:

    I love jQuery like this: $(".question").click(function(){ $(this).next(".answer").toggle(); }); When you click on a question, show the next answer. When you click on the question again, hide the answer. And my markup stays clean: <p class="question">Does this cost anything?</p> <p ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on August 5, 2009
  • Hiding Empty Queues in Dovetail Agent

    I was recently at a customer site, and while sitting down with one of their agents, noticed that this agent belonged to over 100 queues. Because of this, the left column of the console within DovetailAgent, which shows all of the queues, had a scrollbar that seemed to scroll forever. One of the features I like about Dovetail Mobile is that it ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on August 3, 2009
  • 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience

    Smashing Magazine has a list of 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience There's some cool ideas in there. The sortable lists technique would be useful for Drop-Down list management in DovetailAdmin. I also like the Scrollable HTML table plugin - which keeps the header row visible when scrolling through a long table.
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on January 19, 2009
  • jQuery 1.3 is now official!

    jQuery just released its latest version, and celebrates its 3rd birthday as a JavaScript Library. The big features of this release are: Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine. Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist. jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling. HTML Injection Rewrite: ...
    Posted to Sam Tyson (Weblog) by styson on January 14, 2009
  • Announcing a New Product Release...

    This is always a good sign for a software company, and here at Dovetail Software this has just become an easier task. It is important for us to get the news about a new product release to our customers. By automating some of the steps in this task, we can get the information to the customer faster, and also add some business value to the ...
    Posted to Sam Tyson (Weblog) by styson on January 12, 2009
  • jQuery for Beginners: Video Series

    NETTUTS has a series of videos that show you how to get started with jQuery. Good stuff.
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on January 6, 2009
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