I’m excited to announce outofeggs.com, a web app I’ve been working on for a while. It’s built on the techniques I’ve gone through in my Categorized Item List series (using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & jQuery UI). Just create a list and see for yourself. The back end is SQL Server 2008.
It probably goes without saying that I could use any and all feedback: bugs that pop up, features you’d like to see, usability issues, etc. Also let me know if there’s any development-related aspects of the app you’d like me to share in a post that I haven’t covered yet.
Congrats on the launch, Phil!
–Jeff
Great site; I'd love to learn how you did the styling for the “Loading” screens. That seems to escape me (but then again so do most things on the interface side).
Brad, it's using a jQuery plugin called BlockUI.
http://malsup.com/jquery/block/
Part of the reason for this was visual, but part of it was to block users from doing any editing in case of server/database lag while the list was loading.
Unfortunately, the BlockUI plugin does not work with jQuery 1.4 yet, at least not as of 1.4rc1.
http://jquery14.com/pre-release-2/jquery-14rc1
Scratch that last comment. With the latest release of BlockUI and today's release of jQuery 1.4, the two now seem to work great together.