Archive - October, 2009

A Multi-Purpose jQuery Toolkit Plugin

October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

With all my journeys using jQuery, I have begun creating a special library file that contains little things that are not readily available in other plugins, but are incredibly useful. I was thinking that an expansive library of these little things would be very useful for all of us to have access to.

So I am considering creating this as an open source project. So I ask you the community, what kinds of things would you like to see? Is there a math function that you would find useful? Something else? Anything? I am open to suggestions. Please post a comment or send your suggestions to toolkit@learnjquerynow.com. If you have some code that you would like to contribute you can email them to me as well.

If you are a jQuery developer or even an aspiring jQuery developer (I do not have a problem helping people new to jQuery as long as they try their best) that would like to help out with the development in this, please send an email out to toolkit@learnjquerynow.com and we can begin to talk about this.

Learn jQuery Now Chosen As An Exellent Resouce

October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Learn jQuery Now was chosen to be 1 of the 11 Excellent Resources for learning jQuery by Designer Daily. I cannot thank them enough for such a great recommendation! I have only been doing this site for a short while and it was very nice to get such recognition.

I encourage everyone to check out Designer Daily. You can also take a look at the article that has Learn jQuery Now listed here.

jQTouch Beta 2 Released

October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Without a doubt, I have to say that jQTouch is one of my favorite plugins for jQuery. The prospect of being able to develop web applications that work on WebKit based browsers (specifically mobile ones) is very appealing.

Personally, I do not own a Mac (yet) so creating applications for the iPhone was looking like it was going to be incredibly difficult if not impossible. It was at this point that I first found jQTouch. This changed everything. In very little time I was putting together entire applications that was working on my iPhone.

I have been tracking their progress very carefully thought their SVN releases and I have been constantly impressed with how rapidly they have been improving the product. Beta 1 was noticeably slow when you did a vertical scroll on a page. This has been addressed and it now functions like a very close to a native iPhone App.

One of the most impressive things I have seen is that it somehow is able to grab the location from the iPhone. I have not dived that deep into their code yet to see how they pulled it off, but it is incredibly impressive.

In a nutshell, if I had an “Editor’s Choice”, I would give it to them without thinking twice about it. They have a real shot to change the way you see development for the iPhone. In fact, I am using this plugin as the cornerstone for a personal project that I will be sure to tell you all about here soon.

I suggest you check this one out even if you are not planning on developing an iPhone App. You can find it at: http://www.jqtouch.com/

Pre Load Your Webpage Using jQuery

October 5, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Preloading a webpage image is not an easy feat. Some don’t look good, others don’t really work. QueryLoader is a very quick and easy way to pre load images for your website.

You can download QueryLoader from http://www.gayadesign.com/diy/queryloader-preload-your-website-in-style/. The code is incredibly simple. All you have to do is include the plugin and then place the following line of code at the end of your page:

QueryLoader.init();

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