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I’ve spend the whole afternoon yesterday trying to port my dynamic form generator made with JQuery to Mootools. I’m almost there (but “almost” is not “there” yet and the script is rising some really weird arbitrary errors. odd…). But why would I change from JQuery to Mootols?

That’s a very interesting question (I’m actually asking myself every 5 minutes). The [partial] answers are the following:
- Joomla! 1.5 uses Mootools. As working with Joomla! still pay the bills around here, I must adapt to them
- I don’t wanna load two different JS frameworks that do the same thing (or not!) in my components.
- It is always good to learn new stuff, even if, at the end your conclusion is: It was a total waste of time learning this crap. This sux! (as I did with Dojo).
- I need to post new stuff in my blog, what could be better than a comparison between JQuery && Mootools from a regular developer point-of-view? It’s gonna be fun

For now, all I have to say is: [IMHO] Mootools’ learning curve is longer than JQuery’s.

Hello!

This week I started in a new company as a web developer (still working with PHP and mainly with Joomla!, which is not bad but not that challenging…). Christian has also switched jobs and now he is a Java developer (at least he has left Delphi behind, which is good news). I would like to tell you that our distributed hash cracking system (aka Bifröst) is in “sleep” mode until we find some time to re-activate it.

I’ve presented a technical session at the Joomla!Day Brazil which occurred in São Paulo on the 11th. My plane got a 22 hours delay which were not funny at all. The event was great but unfortunately I had missed half of it :/ It is always nice to speak about new geeky features to an excited audience…

My new job is allowing me to create some really cool stuff with JQuery, Ajax and Flash. And I have plenty of time to keep this blog up to date.

I don’t remember if i’ve mentioned this before, but I’m also trying to add Bluetooth capability to the great JGroups. DIdn’t have much success so far. As many of you are new visitors, I was wondering if anyone knows how to do multicast with Bluetooth (someone told me I’ll need a PAN Profile enabled device, but for now I just would like to test it on simulators). I’ve been trying to find answers and help in the Java community but didn’t get many insights. I don’t care to implement it on my on I just would like to know if it hasn’t been implement by someone before.

anyway.. if you have any suggestion/sample/idea to share, please get in touch.

-bigo