The official jQuery blog has announced the availability of jQuery 1.3b1. They’re asking for testers to iron out remaining bugs – looking to release on January 14th.
Major changes include:

Selector Engine – The selector code has undergone a complete rewrite – it’s likely that some edge cases still exist here.
DOM Manipulation (append/prepend/before/after) – This code [...]

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Trying to setup a sandbox development environment on my laptop before traveling for the holidays.  Found WAMP which was a breeze to setup and get running.
Anyway, I ran into a problem where basic session code that my servers handled fine wasn’t working as expected when accessed via localhost.  This is how I got things [...]

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In Part I, I detailed the formative phases of our web development careers.  A providential encounter with a magazine article, tons of free time, inherent curiosity, youthful ambition were the perfect storm that threw us into the world of programming.
At this time, Matt was admittedly more of a programmer than I was.  While our web [...]

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Data is the most fundamental component of today’s web applications. Scraping and combining data from multiple sources to enhance, re-calculate, and re-display is an everyday occurance.
Scraping a list of URLs asynchronously is just about the slowest possible way to do it. Fortunately, PHP 5.2+, via its cURL multi_* functions, gives us a way [...]

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