• Oh Yeah… It’s Out. You’d Think I Would Have Mentioned That Before.

    Strangely I posted some book updates last week and forgot to mention that Professional jQuery has been out for a couple of weeks now.. I haven’t seen it yet, but I like to know that it’s out there. Looking back on my work, I think it’s actually pretty good. Normally my own writing makes me…

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  • Professional jQuery

    The Amazon page is updated with my name (even if the cover is still listing just the single author), so it’s as good a time as any to officially announce Professional jQuery, a book I co-authored for WROX over the past few months. The project fell into my lap during a period in which I…

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  • Using the Geolocation API

    The following is probably the last long-form article you’ll see here for a while. I’m in full on book mode for the next couple of months, so I’m not expecting to be writing a ton here for the foreseeable future. Anyway, the following is actually inspired by the kind of work we’re going to be…

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  • var selector

    I haven’t posted something random like this in a while. I need to post more short content here since all of my long form writing is going on at other venues (more on that soon, I hope.) Anyway, when building applications there’s often a need to build CSS selectors dynamically. This is typically some existing…

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  • My Latest IBM Article is Live: “An introduction to Ajax”

    An introduction to Ajax. Get a technical introduction to Ajax programming, and discover the core JavaScript code and popular library implementations. This article presents a brief history of the technology, then outlines the technical basics of Ajax interactions using core JavaScript coding as well as three popular JavaScript libraries.

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