{"id":672,"date":"2010-08-09T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T23:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/?p=672"},"modified":"2011-05-26T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T22:52:10","slug":"spiffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/spiffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Spiffy UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update<\/b>: The Spiffy UI Framework mentioned in this presentation is now open source.  Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiffyui.org\">http:\/\/www.spiffyui.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a new project called The Novell Identity Manager Reporting Module.  It generates comprehensive reports about identity data in very large organizations.  It was also a chance to build a new web application from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>Official product names take a long time so within our group this project was known as Our Spiffy Reporting Tool.  It represents many new directions and innovations for web application UI.  It&#8217;s the application of some new philosophies.  We integrated <a href=\"\/hackito\/rpt-css\/\">fluid grids and vertical rhythm<\/a>, called all of our APIs using <a href=\"hackito\/gwt-rest\/\">REST from GWT<\/a>, and created a new <a href=\"hackito\/gwt-rest-auto\/\">auto-complete multi-valued suggest box<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>This presentation also shows some of my personal transformation from desktop programming snob to a happy web application developer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Our Spiffy UI:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13950436&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13950436&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This presentation was given <a href=\"\/hackito\/present\/\">in the browser with JQuery<\/a>.  It&#8217;s all open source and you can <a href=\"\/extras\/spiffyui\/\">see the slides online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presentation about the technologies, philosophies, and team organization behind my latest project at Novell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,21,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zackgrossbart.com\/hackito\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}