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The Inspiration
A few weeks back a good friend of mine needed to put together a website to display some of her drawings/portfolio pieces. And of course I decided to go with my jqGalScroll plugin but it got me thinking that there really should be a better way of displaying her work.
After digging around I [...]

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 put [...]

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 [...]

Recently I had been asked to help put together a post scroller widget for a WordPress install but sadly after it was nearly completed it was agreed that it would not "fit" the site it was meant for. And it is true, some sites, depending on who the site is meant for - the [...]

David Walsh posted a priceless and overly useful post about Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using MooTools Ajax but the only problem with that is that he used MooTools ;).
For those that want to do the same thing with jQuery here is the JavaScript code, please have a read at his post for the [...]

Last night I had the opportunity to speak at the Web Tech November Meetup in Baltimore about jQuery.  I focused mainly on traversing since I believe once you fully grasp some of the built in jQuery traversing methods you can do just about anything using jQuery and do it easily.
Preparations
I spent about three weeks getting [...]

Say you want to wanted to put little tabs - you know, the ones like what you get from a lawyer or a realestate again to point out important things - off the side of your page so that your users can click, bring that tab into view to see what important information you want [...]

In a follow up to my Better jQuery Code #1 post I will be writing about some other small items that I have found to make my code better and more readable.
Chaining
Chaining is one of the most beautiful and time save pieces of code structure that jQuery brought to the game, the problem is is [...]

I've been wanting to write some jQuery tips for a while now and just never know what to really say until I saw Marc Grabanski's 5 Tips for Better jQuery Code.  Although I have tips, I don't think I have any that are Earth shattering or ones that I can rank higher then the other, [...]

Well ladies and gents, it is finally here! Mark June 9th, 2008 as the day the web got better, jQuery's long awaited release of it's UI library update is here. Flushed with many bug fixes, a bunch of really good examples, many new features and a theme builder.
When jQuery UI first came out [...]