jQuery is now available, exclusively, under the MIT License. This license is much more open than the previous Creative Commons license used (and much better suited to software development). In a nutshell, for those not familiar with the MIT License, it’s about as free as you can get without actually putting something in the public […]
Comment · Posted: May 27th, 2006
An amazing new jQuery resource has just arrived: 15 Days of jQuery. It’s a new site run by Jack Born, devoted to providing simple tutorials for getting you started using jQuery. Jack created this site after using jQuery in his projects:
I consider [jQuery] the Swiss Army knife of Javascript – it’s small, versatile, and has […]
Comment · Posted: May 26th, 2006
So, I decided to give my site a quick redesign for the May 1st CSS Reboot. It should be noted that I’m not a web designer, but just a geeky programmer with a thing for standards-based design. I hope you enjoy my entry and my work. When planning out the redesign of my site, I […]
Comment · Posted: May 1st, 2006
Simple Challenge: Find all the LI elements underneath two different elements (using their #ID as reference) and bind a click handler which changes the color of the LI’s text. Here is how you would do that in all of the popular event/selector libraries.
Behaviour + Prototype
Behaviour.register({
‘#item li’: function(element) {
Event.observe(element, ‘click’, […]
Comment · Posted: April 29th, 2006
Recently Plazes (a popular geolocation web application) put up a redesign of their service. If you take a peek at how it’s doing it’s cool effects, underneath the hood, you’ll see that it’s making good use of jQuery.
The best place to see it in action is on the Plazes People page. The purpose of the […]
Comment · Posted: April 27th, 2006
There’s not many truly revolutionary desktop writing applications – but the real-time, collaborative, editor SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys is definitely near the top of the list. It has certainly influenced a number of web application developers, as sort of a ‘gold standard’ for what online collaboration could be like. For a long time Subethaedit was a […]
Comment · Posted: April 25th, 2006
Joe Hewitt is working on updating his excellent Firebug Firefox extension. If you’re not familiar with it, you should be. It provides detailed per-page error tracking, XMLHTTPRequest tracking, DOM Navigation – everything that a Javascript developer needs.
The new version of Firebug is adding one more feature: Javascript debugging. This will allow you to set […]
Comment · Posted: April 25th, 2006
Cody Lindley just released a brand new version of Lightbox/Greybox called Thickbox. This release offers some great, added, functionality over the other libraries. Specifically, this release is completely unobtrusive – it uses the natural href, src, and title attributes to seed the box, when it pops up. Even if you don’t have Javascript enabled, it […]
Comment · Posted: April 24th, 2006
