jQuery has a UI framework called jQueryUI which provides a number of UI controls and widgets that you can use to create cool user interfaces. I've been using jQueryUI a fair bit for work recently and wanted to share a pretty cool feature that jQueryUI has. jQueryUI has a widget called a sortable which is just a list of sortable dom elements. It allows you to drag the items around and resort [...]

Earlier this week I came across the jQuery Pageslide plugin via Ajaxian and was impressed with the design. I set about using it to display help messages to the user for a site I am working on. It worked well and all but I found that you can only have one pageslide per page. Say you want to have multiple links one one page that each invoke a page slide but with different settings. So I made s[...]

I recently quit using gwt and started using jQuery for a personal project of mine and I wanted to be able to show some modal dialog boxes using jQuery. As it turns out there is an easy to use plugin that does exactly this called jqModal. jqModal makes it simple to create modal dialogs by simply setting a css class on the tag you want to open the dialog and on the tag in the dialog that you wa[...]

I took a look at Twitter's code as an example of a site that gets lots of traffic and noticed a couple things. 1. They use Amazon S3 to store images 2. They split the javascript, favicons, and css up across 3 or 4 subdomains (assets0.twitter.com, assets2.twitter.com, etc.) 3. They include prototype and a version of jQuery as well as a version of script.aculo.us. <script src="http://as[...]