Integrating jQuery and Lasso

Eric Landmann, lead developer with Landmann InterActive, Madison, WI, will give a technical presentation at the Lasso Developers Conference in Toronto, May 2527, 2012. The topic of the talk will be Integrating jQuery and Lasso Professional.

Items covered will be:

• What is jQuery?
• What can we do with it?
• Basic jQuery usage (syntax and structure)
• Developing with jQuery (using BBEdit, Eclipse and Firebug to inspect XHR requests)
• Code Examples

The code examples will cover some common jQuery features and plugins, including:

• Tooltip (for an admin area)
• Dropdown navigation menu
• Lightbox (product display)
• Drag and Drop (admin area feature of shopping cart)
• Autolookup of a database table (configuration settings pane)
• Autocompletion (for search boxes)
• News scroller

The talk is intended for developers who have not used jQuery or those with only a passing familiarity with jQuery.

Eric Landmann is the lead developer with Landmann InterActive. He has been developing websites since 2001. Specialties include front-end development and Magento ecommerce sites.