Just a quick note alerting everyone to the fact that jQuery has gotten EVEN EASIER AND FASTER. Go check out the release notes.

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Many (awesome) changes http://blog.jquery.com/2010/01/14/jquery-14-released/. View the release notes here: http://jquery14.com/day-01/jquery-14

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The wonderful folks over at jQuery have released Alpha 2 of version 1.4 for all those testers out there. 1.4 is slated for official launch on January 14th – how cute :)

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Just wanted to mention that jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 has been released. Most of the changes seem to revolve around heavy optimization of some core functionality. Installing this alpha and testing in live applications will help get this release out!

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Background “Long polling” is the name used to describe a technique which: An AJAX request is made (utilizing a javascript framework such as jQuery) The server waits for the data requested to be available, loops, and sleeps (your server-side PHP script) This loop repeats after data is returned to the client and processed (usually in [...]

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This very simple function does exactly what the title suggests, it allows you to round to any specified accuracy. function roundTo(number, to) { return Math.round(number * to) / to; } alert(roundTo(1532, 100)); // 1500 alert(roundTo(26, 10)); // 30 If you want to get fancy, you could also modify the Number prototype for a more “integrated” [...]

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For an internal project I’ve been working on I have to provide embeddable versions of internal tools for deployment on remote partner sites. I achieved this in my framework through, what I call, output format filters. Let’s say you have an action “cloud” in a controller “markets”. The URL to access this resource in its [...]

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Just a quick note. I waited for the 1.3.1 release of jQuery to make sure all major bugs had been resolved (brand new selector engine). This weekend I decided to go for the upgrade. Flawless. Even the plugins all worked as expected. Fantastic job.

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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) – [...]

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Let me start off by saying I absolutely love Prototype. When a friend showed me how much it helped with writing cross-browser compatible code, I was an instant fan. Over the years of being a Prototype user I paid close attention to the many posts about why X is a better framework than Y. I [...]

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