Blog Posts for Tag: jQuery

Web Experiments #1: Ajax Convo

Fri September 4, 2009

1) I’m learning object-oriented design, design patterns, object-oriented PHP, and object-oriented JavaScript right now. I wanted to do some experimenting with building systems using these concepts, so I came up with the idea of doing a series of “Web Experiments” where I take an idea for some kind of web application and make a [...]

WordPress: Tabbed Sidebar Widgets with jQuery

Wed July 1, 2009

Tabs are a great way to show more information in less space, assuming the initially-hidden tabs are non-essential information. Recently a client asked me to put a few Wordpress widgets into a single tabbed container in the sidebar. Here’s how I did it.

Book Review: Javascript: The Missing Manual

Fri June 12, 2009

In my ongoing efforts to realize my dreams of becoming a true web ninja, I recently read Javascript: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer MacFarland.  I had read his previous book in the Missing Manuals series on CSS, and had both enjoyed it and learned a lot from it.
I did find this book interesting and [...]

Javascript vs. jQuery vs. the DOM

Wed June 3, 2009

When I first started learning about Javascript, it took me a little while before I could wrap my head around the distinctions and relationships between Javascript, jQuery and the DOM. So I thought I would lay out what I’ve learned so that it might help someone where I was.