I was asked to share my knowledge at SkillSwap which was great evening (it's certainly encouraged me out of my little box and head to future events) (thanks also to John). The slides were updated for SkillSwap, and then also for the ThoughtWorks talk I gave, and in addition, I've recorded screencasts for each of [...]

Last Friday I did my first bit of public speaking. I presented jQuery at QCon. John asked me a couple of months ago, so I pushed the fear aside to give room for the flattery and agreed.

After lots of great feedback, I've upgraded the jQuery Tag Suggest Plugin. This post covers the fixes and upgrades.

If you're familiar with del.icio.us you will be familiar with the tag suggesting as-you-type support. The reason why, I believe, the tagging works so well within del.icio.us is that it helps you create a subset of tags that you commonly use for different types of links. This way, it makes it easier to find tagged [...]

During a conversion with John Resig at the FOWA he mentioned it would be useful to have a tutorial that explained what jQuery doesn't do that Prototype does and visa versa, and in particular how X process is done in each library.

jQuery 1.2 introduced JSONP support, but on initial read of the release notes, I wasn't completely sure what it was - so for anyone else that might want the Dr Seuss explanation. JSONP is script tag injection, passing the response from the server in to a user specified function

To follow on from Auto-populating Select Boxes using jQuery & AJAX, I've had more than a few requests for how to do this for multiple select boxes. In response, I've written a jQuery plugin and have included a simple example of three select boxes populating each other driven by a MySQL database.