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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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>
jQuery Cheat Sheet
An Introduction to Ajax Using jQuery
Today I will take you through a very basic Ajax example using jQuery. Usually Ajax can be cumbersome to use, but with jQuery it is very simple.
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An overview of Ajax
Today we will give a high level overview of Ajax. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. What it allows you to do is by utilizing JavaScript you can update parts of a webpage without having to reload the entire page. Once you know what Ajax is, you will find that you see it being used all over the internet.
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