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 [...]

I've been beavering away at the API behind the scenes for a little while, and if you follow me on Twitter you've probably already seen the API browser has already been upgraded. The key change I've made is to de-couple the API search engine from the front end. What this has resulted in, is a [...]

It's a fairly common design pattern to want to limit the number of characters the user can input in a field whilst giving feedback to the user on how much they have left. So I've built a little jQuery plugin to do the work for me.

This one is just for the designers and developer who have the painful task of skinning existing widgets to make them integrate tightly with their applications (or more likely: their employer's app): ThemeRoller.

As with most projects I work on, there's normally some JavaScript interaction. Often, however I've got all kinds of different versions of jQuery going on in these projects so when I try to access the latest functionality, and it groaks, I'll go sniffing around to check if it's the latest version. Never again!

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.

Last year I attended my first conference, d'Construct 07, and this year, I'm speaking at my first conference. I was asked if I could do a talk on jQuery for the QCon conference going on this week, which is where I'll be tomorrow. It's an hour long, and it'll be the first time I speak [...]