I've noticed in conversations that a lot developers really do take page size for granted. Their rationale is usually that their target audience uses broadband so there's no need to worry about it. I call that naive thinking. You still… Continue Reading
First up: Jim Priest does an excellent job of reviewing the first couple of chapter's of Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer's newly released jQuery book, Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques My favorite… Continue Reading
I wanted to let you know about the jQuery Project's latest version release. With jQuery v1.1.3, you'll see a ton of enhancements that really make an impact. http://jquery.com/blog/2007/07/01/jquery-113-800-faster-still-20kb/ The key points are: Increased selector speed by 800% without increasing the… Continue Reading
Exciting times for the jQuery project. Digg.com is now using jQuery v1.1.2 for their DOM, Ajax & animation needs: Joe Stump: Technical Background of Diggs New Comment System Joe Stump is a software developer at Digg and one of the… Continue Reading
First it was Rob Gonda. Next, Joe Danziger saw the light. Then Dan Switzer joined the fray. Then I find Tony Petruzzi doing some VERY cool stuff. Now super rock star ColdFusion expert Ben Nadel has joined the growing list… Continue Reading
The jQuery team has announced a maintenance release for jQuery v1.1 that addresses several issues found post v1.1. Here's the email from the project team: “The bug fix release for 1.1 is now ready for all to use. There were… Continue Reading
With all of this talk about the jQuery library, I sometimes forget to mention the resources that make getting up to speed in this great library very easy. Two great sites have been built to help introduce developers to the… Continue Reading
Dan G. Switzer of qForms fame has recently been cranking up code using the jQuery Ajax/JS library. He's released a refactored version of Dylan Verheul's jQuery Autcomplete plug-in which: Supports local data array (can now use w/out AJAX). Limit dropdown… Continue Reading
AjaxCFC, the most widely used Ajax/ColdFusion component library for ColdFusion, has been updated to use jQuery v1.1, the latest release of the popular Ajax/JS library. Several updates have been done to logging, error trapping, security checks, constructor methods, and serialization… Continue Reading
I'm a HUGE advocate for the jQuery Ajax/Javascript library. It's lean, fast and VERY feature rich. Its on par with ANY JS lib out there. One of the big thinks lacking, at least from a ColdFusion perspective, was the ability… Continue Reading