I've been working on a page that allows an administrator to configure mobile device reimbursement expenses.  The page offers three types of expenses (voice, messages, and data), and five different reimbursement options for each (no reimbursement, flat ra… more »

Use the transport mechanism to send debug information. For example, if you're sending back an array of data, add a new element (or several), and put in the SQL query so you can see exactly what's being executed. Store the returned data in global variab… more »

Notes on using dojox Charting. Read the documention at the link above. Assemble the page as AJAX from the beginning. Don't bother building an HTML version first, the number of requests required for charting is large enough that these pages should… more »

Sometimes, code doesn't do what it is supposed to, or what you expect. This is particularly common with open source code you didn't write. You can't change the basic code architecture or data structures. Key techniques to adapt and recover with ja… more »

Using objects with javascript, under IE requires attention to commas. If you have an AJAX application that won't load, and the error message is difficult to match up with the code, or not descriptive, one of the best things to check is the objects for… more »