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Free eBook: Unobtrusive Ajax 23 Oct 2010 | 07:45 am
Great news! O'Reilly has been kind enough to let me distribute my eBook Unobtrusive Ajax to readers of my blog, so now you can download and read it for free! Download "Unobtrusive Ajax" eBook From t...
Official jQuery Templating Plugin 12 Oct 2010 | 11:40 am
jQuery announced that they are now officially supporting jQuery Templates, thanks in big part to Microsoft. Templating cleans up the job of generating HTML with jQuery. It also gives you the opportun...
jQuery Live Events 17 Feb 2009 | 10:39 am
jQuery 1.3 came out on January 14th, jQuery 1.3.1 on the 21st, and with them we now have live events built into jQuery. Live events are pretty magical at first glance. They allow you to set events on...
buttons need type="submit" to submit in IE 27 Dec 2008 | 11:29 am
In a typical round of doing Internet Explorer clean up at the end of a project, I had to figure out why my <button>Submit</button> wasn't submitting a form in IE. I did a search on "html button" and ...
Use Arrays in HTML Form Variables 4 Nov 2008 | 01:59 pm
When you're dealing with processing forms, a lot of the time you have a one-to-one mapping of form fields and database columns, with perhaps an extra submit button or some fields that need special pro...
5 Reasons Freelancers Can Succeed in a Shrinking Economy 25 Oct 2008 | 07:27 am
Like many people, I've been a bit obsessed about the economy lately. I'm wasn't sure whether or not to be scared, and to be honest I still don't. But I did think of some reasons freelancing might be a...
Keeping a Live Eye on Logs 23 Oct 2008 | 11:58 am
In web development, you can get really used to getting good error messages. If you're coding in PHP, you come to rely on the web server telling you if a variable is undefined or a file is missing. Li...
Using PHP's empty() Instead of isset() and count() 21 Oct 2008 | 02:20 am
I often work with data arrays in PHP as a way to pass information around or store information in sessions. When you work with these, you can't always assume that all properties are defined. I had some...
Testing Web Pages with Lynx 20 Oct 2008 | 01:32 pm
If you're not familiar, Lynx is the most basic web browser, found on Unix and Linux servers. There are no photos, just pure text, links and forms. You're probably wondering why you would ever think a...
Stop CSS Background Flickering in Internet Explorer 6 19 Oct 2008 | 10:56 am
I was once again reminded of an IE6 bug I had forgotten about - background images flashing or flickering when the mouse hovers over them. So, I went looking for a solution. Here's what I found: Work...
