FerretArmy: A Web Developer's Paradise

A quick overview of the jQuery templating API.

So, yet another week, and another fairly large announcement from Google. They’ve been coming pretty fast and furious lately – the open-sourcing of both Closure and Chrome OS are two fairly recent developments. However, the one this post will focus on is the announcement that Google is working on a new application-level protocol, dubbed SPDY. [...]

Google just open sourced Closure, their robust JavaScript library. Closure is used in a variety of Google products, notably GMail and Google Docs. I had a chance to play with it for a few minutes, and I’m posting my first impressions. Google Closure is a fairly complete JavaScript framework. In that sense, it duplicates a [...]

Normally, AJAX is limited to retrieving data on the same domain that served the page. This is a limitation of the XMLHttpRequest, done mostly for security purposes. There are several ways to get around this limitation, of course, using a variety of methods and techniques. This is one of the stranger that I’ve come across [...]

I’ve just released my latest plugin, the jQuery UI Image Carousel! The plugin is a standard-fare image carousel, and it’s also fully compatible with jQuery UI. It’s got a few options that make it fairly versatile – from a minimal look all the way to a collapsible version with a custom header. The JavaScript itself [...]

Most of the time when you want to cancel an action on a web page, such as a button click, you’d return false in the client-side button event handler, as such: <a href=”blah…” onclick=”return DoAction();”>Link</a> … function DoAction() { /*Do Something */ return false; }; However, there’s a better way, using the event.preventDefault() method. I [...]

I’ve updated my image overlay plugin yet again, to version 1.2. Again, it was a fairly minor enhancement – I added the ability to turn off the animation via an option. The translucent image overlay effect is popping up all over the web nowadays, and I want to make sure that my plugin implementation offers [...]

A quick note – I’ve updated my jQuery Image Overlay Plugin to version 1.1. This version adds support for pinning the overlay so it is always viewable (not just when you mouse over the image). There were no other changes, so you should be able to upgrade without worry.

Here’s a GeoLocator example I put together that showcases two popular GeoLocation techniques – IP lookup and using the GeoLocation API – in order to both demonstrate the techniques as well as to show the issues with each. In HTML, there are a few ways of determining the location of a user. Traditionally, this has [...]

I just recently changed to a new theme for my site. Since then, I’ve been doing my first real digging into the internals of how theming works and how to talk to the back end of WordPress. It’s been a suprisingly pleasant venture – all your content is easily accessible and the interface is clean. [...]