This is an adaptation of a presentation that I gave while at Mashup Camp Boston. We’re going to take an introductory look at the Firebug Firefox Extension and the jQuery JavaScript Library – combining the two to build a reusable bookmarklet that can manipulate Digg Posts and Comments. Click video to begin (14:39 Minutes long, […]
Comment · Posted: January 26th, 2007
Step 1) Spam the crap out of the Digg user comments using multiple accounts, multiple URLs, and make them all look like legitimate links. Continue this for a few days, to get people good-and-angry. Step 2) Post a story calling for your own spammy, fake, accounts to be IP-banned. Everyone blindly insta-diggs it, because they’re […]
Comment · Posted: January 23rd, 2007
This past week I attended Mashup Camp here in Boston – and was frequently asked what tools I used in development. I was quick to mention Firebug (I mean, I was giving a presentation on it, after all) – but I then thought about the other tools that I use in development and decided to […]
Comment · Posted: January 22nd, 2007
The bug fix release for 1.1 is now ready for all to use. There were a lot of weird behaviors that were discovered post-1.1 that needed to be remedied sooner, rather than later. If you were having any difficulties with the 1.1 release, please try this new release to see if your problems were solved.
It […]
Comment · Posted: January 22nd, 2007
I was watching my del.icio.us/popular links today and saw “JavaScript.com” scroll by. Amused, I decided to take a look. I remember looking at sites like this back in ’98-’99 when I wanted to do “cool” effects, just copy-and-pasting snippets into a page and hoping that it would work. So I started to look through the […]
Comment · Posted: January 21st, 2007
So here’s a fun bug to keep you entertained this weekend. Personally, this is the first purely-JavaScript bug that I’ve seen in IE7 (More due to the lack of anything changing than the quality of the code.) Summary: When accessing the .all or .getElementsByTagName(“*”) properties on the DOM representation of an <object> element, the resulting […]
Comment · Posted: January 20th, 2007
The ever-popular, jQuery-based, Drag-and-Drop, Animation, and Widget library, Interface has just released version 1.1 to coincide with the release of jQuery 1.1.
A couple things to note about this release:
The brand new animateClass, animateStyle, and animateColor handlers. You can now do an animation from one particular class, to another – and from one color, to another.
The […]
Comment · Posted: January 15th, 2007
Great news, everyone! Today is jQuery’s 1 Year “Birthday”! (I released it 1 year ago, today, at BarCamp New York City) In celebration, we’ve got a bunch of stuff for you to enjoy.
1) jQuery 1.1
This is a great release – tons of bug fixes, huge speed improvements, and a big simplification of the outstanding API. […]
Comment · Posted: January 14th, 2007
