Wow!  I can’t believe 2013 is coming.  It seriously feels just the other day when I sat down and wrote my 2011 year in review…

Thinking back, 2012 is probably a more average year.  I don’t feel like anything new and major really happened in the industry that I was a part of.  However, in my personal life, I welcomed my third child in late October – hence the lack of website updates since I’ve been extremely busy with my growing family.

With my recent endeavours into Node, I thought that taking a fun article like this one - CakePHP 2-0 Ajax Pagination WITHOUT The Pages – would be a really fun experiment to see how difficult it would be to accomplish in Node.

At the end of the day, the logic is still the exact same, retrieve the items, determine the max length, calculate the number of pages, and then perform AJAX as well scroll down to fill in more content as-needed.

Leveraging the Express API and Jade templates, this is quite painless to implement into Node.

In today's article on Webistrate I explore Transitioning AJAX Content into view with $.animate() using some basic jQuery.  Please note, it doesn't look overly pretty because I'm not a designer, but the functionality is there and it can be prettied with relative ease.

Today a new article was released on Webistrate that discusses how to use jQuery Templates to speed up your websites AJAX queries by return back JSON data and then doing the visual enhancements on the client-side with the use of a predefined jQuery template.

First off, I didn't write this plugin, I was browsing CakePHP's plugin bakery and it came from there:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/schneimi/2010/08/19/ajax-star-rating-plugin-1

This is an excellent plugin and very easy-to-use.  The above article is extremely detailed and provides excellent step-by-step instructions to set it up and get it running.

In reviewing the comments, like any self-made plugins there were a few issues encountered and ironed out along the way, so if you run into any issues be sure to search the comments.
Enjoy this excellent Star Rating Plugin for your next or current CakePHP site!