Mr Kirkland 2.0

I’m officially rubbish at javascript. I just spent about an hour trying to figure out why my nice Jquery slideToggle/slideDown functions were making the browser jump up to the top of the page. I wouldn’t normally write a blog post to tell the world how shit I am, but I recon I’m not the only developer who having declared javascript the devils tool back around 2001, only to pick it up again recently with great enthusiasm after discovering one of the nice new javascript frameworks that have salvaged it from our bin, is still a bit shit at javascript.

The Problem

I too wanted to use the tasty slideToggle type function that everyone and their dog uses on their website now a days:

			$(document).ready(function() {
				$("#crap").click(function (){
					$("#crapDiv").slideToggle();
				});
			});
			

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Why the Problem

After poking around I realised the the browser is attemping to follow the link, and it’s something to do with this that’s causing the jump (hence the button example on the jquery site not being affected).

The Solution

return false:

			$(document).ready(function() {
				$("#good").click(function (){
					$("#goodDiv").slideToggle();
					return false;
				});
			});
		

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Moral of the story

Errr, don’t be crap!

Facebook have opened up their 24 million strong network to 3rd parties with a sturdy development platform which allows one to put applications inside facebook that users can install and interact with. On top of this facebook are giving complete freedom to developers to monetise this opportunity!

If you have a new idea or an existing website that you would like to turn into a facebook application then we can facilitate it’s development. We have extensive experience of the facebook API and what it can do for your application more over we have already deployed an application for the successful sentence game website inside facebook; you can see the application here (facebook registration required)

The Next Step

Please fill out our enquiry form with brief details of your project and budget allocated.

Useful links

• Anatomy of a facebook application
• Facebook platform keynote

This project now has a site of it’s own. Please Go to phpaccounts.com and download the open source package there.

Web Based Databases And Applications

Running a business on the Internet can often mean running the business FROM the Internet. A great number of business already make use of the Internet’s potential, sales: booking flights, selling goods, selling software services: on line banking, data analysis publishing.

Behind the scenes, the integral part of this process is storing the information in a database and creating an “application” to use this database. Mr Kirkland special izes in web application and database design and has many clients whose businesses are running of applications crafted to their needs.

Whether you have an existing system that needs improving or you have yet to realize the potential of your business on line, Mr Kirkland would love to hear from you.