http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones EduBytes on learning and process Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:52:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some time ago, a colleague of mine asked me to write a tutorial aimed at a non-typical piece of software that lead the reader from the inception of an idea to a finished product. As an educator, It was extremely difficult to ignore such an open suggestion. This following piece ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2009/07/09/tutorials-and-learning/ Seems that the Blogosphere is interested in Sapphire. Since Jim Weaver posted his first blog regarding Sapphire, it has been carried over to DZone, then into JavaLobby, then out to several other technology blogs and now has landed as an item of interest on the Sun Microsystems front page. Thanks ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2008/12/26/33/ This is the technical writeup I provided to Jim Weaver for his updated blog with some editorial changes. One of the features of JavaFX that makes it attractive to real-time application developers is its ability to tie graphical elements to models through the binding mechanism. This mechanism makes it possible for ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2008/12/20/a-brief-charting-example/ Sapphire, the classroom observation tool, has hit the web for its public debut. Written in the newly released official JavaFX 1.0 from Sun Microsystems,  Sapphire brings advanced Rich Internet Application technology to educators focused on observing classrooms. The Community Edition which is available from our website was featured by the ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2008/12/18/sapphire-in-the-wild/ In part two, the conceptual underpinnings of the behavioral action model were discussed. We took a simple function from part one and coaxed it into a class then encapsulated that class into an Object. A loader function on the body tag's "onload" method would then do real work of binding ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2008/03/01/behavioral-action-model-part-three/ In Part One, we built a very simple page with a single button that made use of some Behavioral Action Model techniques. From part one, we had the following function that provided the muscle for our button: function link() { var btn = document.getElementById("mybutton"); btn.onclick = ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2008/02/15/beahvioral-action-model-part-two/ This is a brief tutorial on using the behavioral action model. Fundamentally, this is just a clean separation between HTML and Javascript scripting that relies on Javascript's ability to modify the DOM. In essence, we are attaching Javascript functions to events on DOM elements using CSS as an identification system. Let's ... http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/bjones/2008/02/03/behavioral-action-model/