jquery.jqplot

Needed to provided graphing and visualization capability to a quick dashboard I am developing; after some experimentation with a few jquery libraries I found jquery.jqplot to have the shortest learning curve. It provided me with the capability to draw out most standard graphs and visual aids. jquery.jqplot also provides the ability to highlight data points on the graph. Which would allow developers to enable selection of and further analysis of a given data point. In the days to come I will be diving deeper into the functionality provided by jquery.jqplot to validate if it will allow me to visualize all the types of data analysis that I need to provide. One interesting I have noticed about jquery.jqplot is that burying the div where the graph is stored in other div's renders the aforementioned div inaccessible when a given data point has been highlighted.

Using SkelJS

I had to build a dashboard for reviewing patient details, very quickly. However wanting to still build something that was clean, fast and which could eventually be ported to my long term solution; I decided to build the UI layer in pure html/css/js. So being lazy I decided to look for prefabricated HTML5 templates. I found one on html5up.net which seemed to serve my purpose of simplicity and having a clean look. After downloading it and starting to play with it I found that it was using SkelJS, not knowing the innards of SkelJS, I decided to forge forward and skin the CSS to suit my needs, the initial skinning was relatively painless, however that impression changed as soon as I got to the re-sizing piece (I needed the left nav bar to not collapse and I needed the div containing the left nav bar and the right viewing container to expand vertically as I added more items to the right container) I feel like I had gotten trapped in a spiders web, SkelJS does it configuration via a combination of configuration setting and JS that resides in the JS files. Removing an innocent looking configuration easily had far reaching effects, also try to follow the code in the skel.min.js file that comes out of the box was a challenge in patience. I eventually managed to resolve my issues, but I don't think I will be using SkelJS in the final solution that I plan to develop with webpy.