Ajaxify Your Zend_Form Validation with jQuery

Jon Leben­sold posts an update to his excel­lent screen­cast; We’re going to take what was put together in the last 3 videos and now include some server-side val­i­da­tion that will appear asyn­chro­nously. This is an exam­ple of using Zend_Form as a val­i­da­tion tool via JSON.
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Grid Accordion with jQuery

Accor­dions are a UI pat­tern where you click on a title (in a ver­ti­cal stack of titles) and a panel of con­tent reveals itself below. Typ­i­cally, all other open pan­els close when the new one opens. They are a clever and engag­ing mech­a­nism for pack­ing a lot of infor­ma­tion in a small space.
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DataTables — table plug-in for jQuery

The other day I had to write a  NOC appli­ca­tion that shows all active phone lines in an out of a cus­tomers tele­com clus­ter, thats a lot of con­stantly chang­ing data that needed to be dis­played.
Some design require­ments was;

*NO* refreshes i.e. blink­ing screen parts (gives NOC per­sonel an epilep­tic fit after a day star­ing at it).
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