I've assumed you know what OpenID is, you're using your own blog as your identity and now you want to offer a way for your users to log in your sexy new webapp using OpenID, or, as I've done in my code experiment Todged use it exclusively for logging in. However, in developing the log in [...]

Following my how to setup your mac web development environment, and today moving to Leopard, my entire offline environment is broken - this is entirely due to the move from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.2. This article will discuss the changes required to get your multi-host mac dev environment running again with PHP5, MySQL, Apache 2 [...]

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.

I recently wrote my first Dashboard app: HTML entities (named in the top 10 widgets by engadget.com), widget using Dashcode. Since the product (Dashcode) is still in beta, there wasn't a great deal of resource available for developing widgets, so I'm sharing my experience and any tips I can offer for development.

I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and found that Ultimate Tag Warrior wasn't working anymore for me. Although I managed to hack it a bit and eventually found UTW 3, the biggest problem (and show stopper) was when a new comment was placed on a post, all the tags would disappear. So I've moved to [...]

I've started playing with Ext with jQuery, and although the tutorials on the Ext web site are superb, I found that I hit a few stumbling blocks - so I've written up the little gotchas.

More often that not, in my early dabbling with jQuery and more advanced JavaScript, I found I would constantly get confused over the meaning of "this" in jQuery and my own new libraries. Hopefully this quick guide can help clarify those confusing moments, because once you've got it, it's simple as pie.