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.
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Archive - September, 2009
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 Google. Your bandwidth is not taken up by loading the library
- Google can probably serve us the file faster than your server. Especially if you are on a shared hosting solution
- If your user has been to a site that uses the library from Google, they have already cached it.
Using the Google’s library is incredibly simple. All you have to do is use the following code to include the jQuery library from Google:
<script src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js”></script>
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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 large need for dedicated web based applications for the iPhone.
With such a popular platform out there, knowing how to develop for the platform just makes sense. However, Apple does not make it easy for you to create iPhone Web Applications if you do not own a Mac (which despite how popular Apple is, most people out there do not own a Mac). So us Windows people are basically out of luck. That is until, jQTouch came on the scene. jQTouch makes it possible to create iPhone web applications without the need to use Apple’s API or development tools. jQTouch is a jQuery plug in that makes this all possible.
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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 will discuss those options.
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