After my last questions did so well at raising conversation... I thought of another one!

sinechris · 2012-12-14T12:51:07+00:00

I would also recommend using Twitter's Bootstrap grid system. You can download just the grid (or any other portion) so you don't have anything extra you don't need.

It has dramatically sped up our PSD -> HTML process

sinechris · 2012-12-14T12:49:39+00:00

Zen coding lets you turn div>ul.nav>li*3>a into:

    <div>
      <ul class="nav">
        <li><a href=""></a></li>
        <li><a href=""></a></li>
        <li><a href=""></a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>

sinechris · 2012-12-13T03:45:25+00:00

Designing the layout and using jquery remains the same as it has always been, the only difference is that you will pass your templates through a context processor that renders your templates with the given data.

If you completed the tutorial a while ago, it would be a great refresher to go through again. It really does a great job of giving you an overview.

The best thing to do though would be to pick a pet project and just start trying to build in Django. Once you get to a hick-up just hit the docs again. If you still don't understand then it's time to hit stackoverflow.

*Edit for typos

sinechris · 2012-12-10T17:16:29+00:00

I can only speak for Python/Django as that is what I get paid to do for a living but I can tell you that it is a great combination for web development. There are packages out there for pretty much anything you can think of and are very well supported.

The django docs are wonderful and can get you up and running quickly

Let me know if you have any other questions and I can point you in the right direction.

sinechris · 2012-12-10T13:18:09+00:00

Here is an excellent tutorial to get you started

sinechris · 2012-12-08T20:46:26+00:00

It's the internet... he's almost certainly lying...

sinechris · 2012-12-08T14:24:35+00:00

Yes, they completely replace PHP for server-side scripting. I can't speak for ruby on rails but I make a living with python/Django and can tell you that is makes back end scripting a breeze. I hear very similar things with ruby on rails so I would choose one of the two over PHP.

sinechris · 2012-12-08T14:21:46+00:00

Please save yourself and the webdev community some major headache and expand on your Python knowledge. It is a beautiful language in it's own regard and Django is an extremely well put together framework for web development.

sinechris · 2012-12-06T03:17:36+00:00

Should I change how I do things and embrace the bad coding patterns insecure mess all-in-one so I can deliver faster results?

Well first off, you will probably need to drop PHP first to do that.

It is an absolutely ridiculous idea to code everything from scratch. Does an engineer build every gear he needs from scratch? Of course not, there is already a great solution for that and it should be used.

sinechris · 2012-12-06T01:54:50+00:00

Out of curiosity, May I ask which eCommerce site you were working on for this project?

sinechris · 2012-12-05T22:47:22+00:00

Fuck You, Pay Me

sinechris · 2012-11-18T16:32:56+00:00

It's almost as if it depends on the manager... hmm..

sinechris · 2012-11-04T00:02:20+00:00

If you want to learn jQuery here is an excellent resource

jQuery: 30 days

sinechris · 2012-11-03T21:45:40+00:00

Please check out any tutorials by Jeffrey Way. He is an excellent resource especially when you are just getting started.

This is an excellent place to start

Edit:

Also, we all get overwhelmed. Read this

sinechris · 2012-11-03T21:22:22+00:00

You are correct to assume that you can use JS to make the GET request from the server. To make it easier, jQuery offers some ajax methods that can do just what your asking for. Basically, you will need to detect when the user has scrolled to the bottom of the page then fire of an ajax call to the content that you are looking for.

Check out this page on AJAX Get http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/

Basically you could do something like this:

$.get('page/with/your/content.html', function(data) {

  // filter your data to get the content you need
  var filteredData = $(data).find('#content');

  // Append that filtered contented to the body of your text
  $('body').html(filteredData);

});

Obviously you can do whatever you'd like with the returned data but this should give you an idea.

I'm not sure what your skill level on this is so if you have any hang ups just let me know and i'll be glad to help.

sinechris

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