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I recently had to create some pagination for a backbone.js project I’ve been working on.  What I created has been working quite well but was not 100% happy with what I did.  Since I had a week off I figured I’d rewrite it as a mixin and clean up the approach.  Will have to work [...]

Sometimes you want to show your user the strength of their password and although there a quite a few jQuery “plugins” that do this there are none – that I’ve found – that let you set the class of an element so that you can do a graphical representation of the strength. What I have [...]

For some time now I have been using Really Simple History for my applications that use a good amount of AJAX. RSH is exactly what it sounds like, it is a really simple way of adding history and bookmarking to your AJAXified apps.  To see it in action have a look at the Mason’s Graduate [...]

Update 12/07/2007: per Brian Cherne comments, I decided to run these test again in Firefox with firebug lite instead of firebug and the execution times were dreastically different. So, to “level the playing field” I would suggest that you turn off firebug or disable it for the page and refresh, you will get the firebug [...]

When building my first real plugin for WordPress, I wanted to utilize some Ajax approaches that would use JSON and which would make for a speedy process, but quickly found that 1) PHP4 does not support the “json_decode” function, 2) the classes that json.org recommended were too hard to put into play, and 3) once [...]

It’s not jQuery but it does a nice job of taking a problem and fixing. The VerticalFillJs script was written by Dan Drinkard over at displayawesome.com, head over to his blog post to see it in action. Basically what this code snippet does, is that it takes an element that has a set high and [...]

Well, today is October 23, 2007 and I will be leaving the comfort of my home to go learn something about this thing called “Ajax” and related elements. What do I expect to get out the this experience? Not really sure; more knowledge? correct procedures? new ideas? Really not sure, but I am sure if [...]

With the success of the jqGalView Plugin I’ve decided to release the jQuery jqGalViewII (beta) Plugin which allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery, much like what the jqGalView Plugin does for you. It allows you to style it how ever you want and add as many images at you want.

The jQuery jqGalView Plugin allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. It allows you to style it how ever you want and add as many images at you want.

The jqAmungUs widget is a jQuery plugin that will aide as an alternative to the icon and will give more detail to who is currently on your site and alternatively whose been on your site and where they came from (as far as country is concerned).