Archive for 2011

ExtJS 4 First Look: Sample Chapter Available

ExtJS 4 First Look: Sample Chapter Available

December 22, 2011 | By | 1 Comment

Hi everyone, I finally finished writing my ExtJS 4 book a couple of months ago and now the book was already uploaded to the printers. Just waiting to be published! Meanwhile, you can check out a sample chapter. It is chapter 04, and it is about charts. You can buy the book at the publisher’s [...]

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How to Load or Save Image using Hibernate – MySQL

How to Load or Save Image using Hibernate – MySQL

October 18, 2011 | By | 6 Comments

This tutorial will walk you throughout how to save and load an image from database (MySQL) using Hibernate. Requirements For this sampel project, we are going to use: Eclipse IDE (you can use your favorite IDE); MySQL (you can use any other database, make sure to change the column type if required); Hibernate jars and dependencies [...]

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[Screencast] Spket: Setting up Eclipse IDE for Ext JS 4 development

[Screencast] Spket: Setting up Eclipse IDE for Ext JS 4 development

October 14, 2011 | By | 7 Comments

This screencast will walk you through how to set up Eclipse IDE for Ext JS 4 development with Spekt Eclipse plugin. It demonstrates how to enable the autocomplete feature on Eclipse or Aptana I wrote a tutorial about it a while ago, but it demonstrates how to configure Spket with Ext JS 3. This is an updated tutorial [...]

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ExtJS 4: How to add Tooltip to Grid Header

ExtJS 4: How to add Tooltip to Grid Header

October 4, 2011 | By | 9 Comments

This tutorial will walk through out how to add a tooltip to a Grid Header. This feature is not natively supported by Ext JS 4 API. Fortunately,  there is a third-party plugin we can use to do it. To get started, I created a JavaScript project on Eclipse IDE and it looks like this: Plugin Code The first [...]

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ExtJS 4 Plugin: PagingToolbarResizer

ExtJS 4 Plugin: PagingToolbarResizer

September 26, 2011 | By | 4 Comments

For Ext JS 3, I implemented a plugin called PagingToolbarResizer. However, ExtJS 4 introduced some changes on the API and the plugin does not work for this new version, so I ported it to Ext JS 4. Download The complete source code with a complete example of how to use it you can find in my [...]

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