On March 8th, 2009 Stephen DeGrace wrote:

I'll take the first guestbook entry.

On March 10th, 2009 mathieu boudreau wrote:

Great site sweetie. I'm proud of you :)

On March 16th, 2009 Michelle Knott wrote:

No guestbook spam here!! Very cool website! Can't wait for your next blog!

On June 21st, 2011 Mark E wrote:

I enjoyed your jQuery and Django integration posts, maybe you should write a better book on it!

I am curious about your calendar, as I currently am writing one.

On July 19th, 2011 Stephen DeGrace wrote:

Thanks for your comment, Mark. My calendar is a fairly simple app... for each months it has an interlocking pattern of shaded squares to symbolize the basic QC shift rotation, and the squares are clickable, opening an AJAX dialog. From there you can enter a very short comment for each shift on that day (just the initials of the people working, really), and you can also write a longer and more general comment about the day as a whole. If the latter is done, an icon shows up on the day to indicate there is a comment, and you have a choice of four icons. With admin privileges, you can also rotate the shifts into the future indefinitely.

It's simple, but for what I'm trying to accomplish and the scale of my group it works well and I like it much better than the company's in-house solutions or a paper or whiteboard system for keeping track.

On August 9th, 2012 Mario wrote:

Hi Stephen,

Very nice site! I came across your website looking for answers to my Django-JQuery-Ajax questions. Being an absolute beginner to JQuery and AJAX, I have digested your walkthrough discussion of Django-JQuery integration, and I am currently trying them out on my own. Thanks for being lucid and slow with these kinds of discussions.

What would you recommend for a JQuery-AJAX beginner? I'm fighting against knowing how to make proper asynchronous GET calls to Django, using Chrome developer tools as my JS debugging platform. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Mario

On August 12th, 2012 Stephen DeGrace wrote:

Hi Mario,

Thanks for your comments! I'm not really any kind of expert to give pointers, I just rode the learning curve and wrote down what I found out. It does work for me, but I think the best advice I can give is keep playing with it, because there's potentially a lot to discover. Also: make good use of plugins that provide visual feedback and lock part or all of the UI while an AJAX request is "working." If you don't, you'll find yourself getting aggravated even with an app you bang together strictly for your own use, and ordinary users will just be baffled and frustrated by any lag.

That said, if you want to chat about any specific topics, feel free to drop a line via my email contact form!

Stephen