Archive for September, 2009
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Create Your First jQuery Plugin
Today is a big day. Up until now we have been using other people's plugins to improve our web applications. Today we will create our own. It will be an incredibly simple plugin, but will build a foundation for creating more advanced plugins. This
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Basic Form Validation Using The jQuery Validation Plugin
Form validation is a very important part of any web application. You have to make sure that your users are going to enter a numerical value when they put data into a quantity field (You don't want them to enter "one" into a quantity field, unless of
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Use jQuery To Disable Right Clicking On Your Page
Let me be clear about one thing before we begin. I think that doing this is obnoxious. If you really think you can achieve something by stopping right clicking, you are wrong. If someone wants to get to something on the right click, they will find
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Use jQuery To Determine Your Page Load Time
Any serious web developer has had to deal with determining page load time. No other issue is as important as how fast a page loads. You can have an amazing site, but if it takes too long to load, your users (or customers) will not wait around for y
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Use jQuery To Detect What Browser Your Users Are Using
jQuery has the ability to identify what browser your users are using to visit your site. It may be more useful to use CSS conditional comments to detect a browser, jQuery makes it very easy: if( $.browser.safari ) { alert('You are usi
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Put Your Twitter Feed On Your Website Using jQuery
Twitter has become an amazing way to share thoughts, ideas, and information (not to mention what you are actually doing). Displaying your Twitter feed on your website is a great way to promote your Twitter to increase your followers. Luckily you ca
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Save Your Bandwidth! Let Google Host Your jQuery Library
It may not be widely known, but Google has been hosting several JavaScript libraries on Google Code and jQuery is one of those libraries. This has a few different advantages to allowing Google to host this file for you including: It is hosted on G
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jQuery Cheat Sheet
We know that we can't all know everything about jQuery so it is nice to have a good cheat sheet available to tell us just enough to remind us how a certain function works or how to do something new. Well there is a cheat sheet out there that is avai
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jQTouch – Building iPhone Web Applications without the Apple SDK
Let's face it. The Apple iPhone is a huge success. It is the smart phone of choice for over ten million people worldwide. Despite the fact that the iPhone comes with the Safari Web Browser that renders the web flawlessly, there is still a very lar
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Advanced jQuery Ajax Options
Yesterday we discussed how you can use jQuery as an Ajax library for your web application. The discussion only covered the most basic options to make the Ajax work. There are many more options available to modify how the Ajax behaves. Today we wil
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