DOM scripting and Javascript and jQuery

The book jQuery in Action is no light reading. It's not the type of book you can read in a couple of sittings. I started reading my copy several months ago. It might easily become one of the best three-to-five computer books I'll read in my life. I am reading the excellent appendix now, titled: JavaScript that you need to know but might not! Boy did I totally not! I will dump what I am learning here in two installments. Read more →

So I modified my Shovell code to use unobtrusive jQuery. Read more →

Where did time go? Last time I added an entry to my Learning Ruby on Rails journal, it was May 6th. Today is October 30th. There may have been 40 days of learning between then and now. I am back into it — is what matters. Read more →

When I googled how to use jQuery in a Greasemonkey script — a script to run on a web page that already loads some other, conflicting, JavaScript framework, like Prototype — I found no script that worked. Not a fucking one. They all contained very wrong bits, and I wander why they're still published. They're still indexed so that people like me can experience more pain. Here's what I came up with after much labor. I believe it is fail-proof. Read more →

There's a very sweet jQuery plugin that makes it possible to bind event listeners to elements that may not have been added, yet, to the document. Read more →

The purpose of this article is to help me and perhaps yourself differentiate between true, truthy, false and falsy in JavaScript. If you read through the article, in the end you will face two fun challenges. Good luck ;-) Read more →

I received in the mail my pre-ordered copy of Pro Drupal Development Second Edition yesterday.

The book is a brick. 667 pages with the index.

I am a little disappointed already... To be fair, I had high expectations. The treatment JavaScript and Ajax would receive was the first thing I'd look into. Read more →

I’m currently working on a Drupal 6 theming ebook. The beta ebook attached to this posting is for Drupal 5.
— Update, March 29th, 2008.

I am in the process of writing a 50-and-some pages ebook on Drupal theming. I have an outline and a spiral book full of notes, and lots of sections are already written. My current draft (call that a beta-book) is 15 pages long and if you log in you may download it. Read more →