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Welcome to this sixth installment of Neuron Workout Solutions™, a series that answers the questions and challenges at the end of many chapters in the book. Boy, is this installment overdue. I’ve been meaning to write it for weeks, but life just didn’t seem to agree. Today we’ll address the challenges closing chapter 12: Effects. And with this, we open up the Neuron Workouts for the script.aculo.us part of the book.

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The original 5,000 paper copies are just about sold out, and channels keep asking for more! So I’m happy to announce Pragmatic Programmers just triggered a reprint of 3,000 more copies.

Thanks to everyone for grabbing the book, I hope you’re loving it!

For the past 24h or so, this web site was not accessible, due to a principle of precaution when some potential security issues arose, in order to protect the visitors’ privacy.

Unfortunately, this coincided with a major office rush, hence the long fix.

Thanks for hanging in, and welcome back.

This post opens up a new series on The Bungee Blog, called “JavaScript Nuggets.” In this series, I shall attempt to share with you a few bits of code I have been using and refining over actual projects, bits that I find myself reusing all the time, which means I’m happy enough with them.

Today we’ll talk about two generic functions I use in most of my backoffice screens to consistently “ajaxify” checkbox lists (persisting the checked ones on-the-fly, without needing to submit anything) and deletion of list items (with proper, dynamic confirmation dialog boxes).

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