Video Interviews – The YayQuery Crew and Paul Irish of the jQuery Team

Nailing down the crazy YayQuery crew and keeping them in one place was a challenge but Ralph Whitbeck and I managed to do it and nail down another jQuery Podcast/video interview in the process. Check them out: Paul Irish is… Continue Reading

Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery

I got some more videos edited and uploaded for you guys to check out. If you’re really into JavaScript, then you need to stay aware of what Nicholas Zakas of Yahoo! is doing. He wrote the book (literally) on JavaScript… Continue Reading

Use ScriptSrc.net to Copy and Paste the Script tag for Your Favorite JavaScript Library

One of the things I hate about using CDNs is remembering the path for the latest version of my favorite JavaScript library. I end up having to pull a search engine, search for the site, find my library, copy &… Continue Reading

Video Interviews Part 1 – Steve Souders, Google’s Performance Evangelist Talks Performance and Mobile & Yahoo!’s Gonzalo Cordero Discusses BayJax

During the jQuery conference in Mountain View, I got a chance to video interview a number of people. First up are Steve Souders, Google’s Performance Evangelist. Apart from Steve’s great comments on performance and mobile, what I truly appreciated was… Continue Reading

Video Interview with the Yahoo UI JavaScript Library Team

Last Friday I got a chance to visit the Yahoo! campus and meet with the YUI team. I have to say I felt pretty special because these guys usually work remotely on Friday’s and they took the time to come… Continue Reading

The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books

NOTE: I’ve moved the list to it’s own dedicated page so that I can manage it a little easier so for the most up-to-date list, go to the following page. I’ve been meaning to do a roll-up of top JavaScript,… Continue Reading

JSConf 2010 – Video Interviews with Top JavaScript Developers

While at JSConf 2010, I was able to interview some great developers who are really making an impact on client-side development. I’ve posted the video interviews below and I hope you like them. I want to thank all of my… Continue Reading

JSConf Day 1: ScurvyConf was Awesome

I’ve been looking forward to JSConf 2010 since last year when I wasn’t able to hit the event. JSConf, for those that don’t know, is one of the premier events for JavaScript developers and it attracts the best of the… Continue Reading

Update to the Google & Safari Double Firing mouseup Issue

Yesterday, I wrote about an issue I was having with Google & Safari’s way of handling text selection & the “mouseup” event versus Firefox & IE. I installed Opera 10.51 as well to ensure I tested this on the major… Continue Reading

My Solution to Google Chrome & Safari Double Firing the mouseup Event when Selecting Text

I needed to write a quick bit of code today to track when a user selects any text on a page. The key was to bind a method to the “mouseup” event which would grab the selected text and do… Continue Reading