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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Inline form validation is the way forward with any web site today, and I’ve found I’ve been able to extract this process out in to a simple plugin that can be applied anywhere throughout my code using the the following pattern.

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 [...]

My blog is now running a WordPress plugin that shows the album covers from Last.fm of songs I’ve recently listened to. There’s a lot of plugins out there, but none that I found that did the job of getting the artwork, and certainly not for the most recent albums. Download the Last.fm recent album artwork [...]

I’ve been hoarding a few plugins which I thought it was about time I did some sharing. They are: crop – crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only labelOver – based on an article over at A List Apart an accessible method of compressing forms pluck – return an array of values for [...]