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 [...]

I'm always writing quick prototypes of ideas I've got, and often they'll include some quick jQuery. However, for reasons unbeknownst to me, about 1/3 of the time I forget to wrap the statements in a .ready() function, and since I have the habit of putting my script tags in the head - the code never fires. [...]

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

The idea that you can track which links users have visited re-emerged earlier this month. In my (rather drawn out) blog redesign process, I considered that when showing a list of del.icio.us link, I could hide those ones my visitor had already been to. Here's a jQuery plugin to filter for just visited links: jquery.visited.js

Ever since jQuery 1.1.3 the old API browser hasn't been updated due to incompatibilities in the documentation (though that's mostly assumptions). Although the new docs is comprehensive, I've always liked the quick access the old API browser gave. As such, I've got about my own way re-building an API browser based on the new documentation. Check [...]

JavaScript behaviours are roughly defined as an event handler that is set once, then handled by elements that are created on the fly later on. For example, if I have a list of links referencing images which are loaded inline, adding an removing the links from this list would not require me to re-hook the event [...]