jquery-form

This is our first jquery plugin, and we're very thrilled to release it. jquery-form provides on-the-fly form generation with:

1. declarative syntax
2. good default semantic

It's very questionable about why people even need to generate a whole form all in javascript, and my saying is that this is one kind of future. It looks like this when you use it:

$("#form1").form({
    legend: "Quiz #4",
    params: {
        "Title": "What's the answer ?",
        "your_answer": {
            label: "Your Answer",
            value: "42"
        }
    }
})
.find(":submit").val("Save").end()
.submit(function() {
    $("#message").html("You just submit that form");

    setTimeout(function() { $("#message").empty(); }, 5000);

    return false;
});

At this moment you can only see text fields generated, and it's not very customizable yet. More and more type of traditional fields, or smart fields, are being integrated into this branch. So stay tuned. Please visit it's official page for more details: http://code.handlino.com/wiki/jquery-form

self.pm

OO Perl programmers often find them self typing this line many times:

    my $self = shift;

Why ? Because Perl do not have a special keyword to represent current object, the first argument in the argument list are taken to be the current object. Such convention has been there for years.

As Ingy döt Net tried to use source filter to sort that out, his Spiffy module is actually one of my favorite module. But there are too many know problem with source filter, and turned out nobody really enjoy it at all.

Although I've always think, with Perl, one shouldn't be bundled with the language to limit their thought, but should just enjoy the TIMTODI style to get things done in your favorite style. That's why the re-invented wheels like Template-Declare, Object-Declare, Scalar-Defer, Web-Scraper are so elegant.

Without using source filter, one can always say $_[0] to get the current object, but that's not very readable.

So self.pm provides a slightly different self, it's not a variable, but just a bare-word. Really it's function call that gets your current $_[0], but it's pretty handy.

Turned out somebody really likes it, that's great. :)

Note: This is a cross-post from: http://blog.gugod.org/2007/11/selfpm.html