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As you may or may not seen on Twitter the last 3 weeks or so, I accepted an offer to work with appendTo, LLC - The jQuery Company. I first met the CEO (Mike Hostetler) and President (Jonathan Sharp) of appendTo back in January while I was at the launch of jQuery 1.4 in Washington DC. After the unf... [More]

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Recently a brand new Microsoft website has been launched called Script Junkie that focuses on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more… Script Junkie Website Twitter (@script_junkie) Twitter List of Authors (@script_junkie/script-junkie-authors) Script Junkie RSS Feed Over the past 7 mon... [More]

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In case you haven’t heard from the end of the Rey Bomb #2 Episode of The Official jQuery Podcast, I announced that after 21 episodes I am stepping down as my role of co-host. Around the time I first joined the podcast I also started to become involved with some intense writing projects (as will b... [More]

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This year I was chosen by the community to speak at Mix10 as one of the Open Call sessions. I was honored to be selected and thoroughly enjoyed attending Mix10 and building relationships. My session was entitled 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Should Know This seminar provides an overview of se... [More]

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I recently finished reading the 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls eBook by Suprotim Agarwal. The eBook is $14.99 and it comes with a 14 day 100% money back guarantee. It can be ordered from the DotNetCurry website. This eBook reminded me a lot of Cody Lindley’s jQuery ... [More]

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Mix 2010, a 3 day Microsoft conference for web designers and developers, recently opened up to all developers the opportunity to submit sessions that will be voted upon and possibly included in the conference line-up.  Voting for these sessions begins today (January 5, 2010) and will close o... [More]

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I got an interesting Twitter question the other day and thought I would blog about it to help anyone who has a similar situation. Question Hey buddy! How can I do a simple thing as loading a page into a div using Ajax and on the loaded page, execute a simple task as executing a javascript with ... [More]

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As many of you are aware, I am a frequent Tweeter and regularly distribute Web Developer technology related links for .NET and jQuery via my Tech Tweets. Historically, my main concern was to just gather the latest web dev news and Tech Tweet those out to the public. However, more and more many of... [More]

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Since my last post I wondering if there was a better way to visualize my tweets. The Word Cloud was a nice feature, but I wanted more. I thought about using the Google Annotated Time Line chart, but it didn’t quite give me what I was looking for. Well, it turns out there is a really cool JavaScript ... [More]

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With all the Google Closure news recently, I thought I would play around a little more with what Google has to offer. I’ve been impressed with their charting options that have been available in Google Docs and noticed that they are also available to use outside of Google Docs. After looking through... [More]

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I was talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago and he was looking for some plugin that would visually flip over a section of the screen (like flipping an index card). He had a master/detail layout and wanted to be able to click on a link from the master, the content would flip, and then the detail ... [More]

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Introduction I just finished reading the jQuery Enlightenment eBook by Cody Lindley (@codylindley) and let me tell you it was definitely worth my time ;) You may be already familiar with Cody Lindley as the author of the modal jQuery plug-in Thickbox. As stated by the author, this eBook is intend... [More]

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In case you  hadn’t heard yet, the Official jQuery Podcast (@jQueryPodcast) has officially been announced. It was first announced at the StackOverflow DevDays event in Toronto, ON, Canada on Friday Oct 23rd, 2009 and then it was tweeted yesterday by the @jQueryPodcast account and retweeted by... [More]

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Recently as I develop with jQuery, I’ve been trying to either use jQuery UI ThemeRoller supported plugins or somehow tweak existing jQuery plugins to support the ThemeRoller classes. Note: There are many plugins out there that already support ThemeRoller (and you can find a list I’ve compiled in m... [More]

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In the following screencast I will demonstrate how to speed up your website by using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Specifically, I will be swamping out a local copy of jQuery with one hosted by Google. You can host a variety of files (example: jQuery, jQuery UI, Prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTo... [More]

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The following short screencast shows how you can use the jQuery UI ThemeRoller Firefox Bookmarklet to quickly switch the theme on your webpage in order to compare and tweak out the colors that is just right for your website.   Not only do the jQuery UI Plugins support the jQuery UI Themes, b... [More]

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The following screencast focuses on how to quickly make a jQuery plugin. The intent is not to dig deep into the ins and outs of a jQuery Plugin’s wiring. If that is what you are looking for there are many other good tutorials out there for that such as… You Still Can’t Create a jQuery Plugin? b... [More]

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Today’s screencast is the 5th in a series of developer Firefox Extensions. You can view my previous 3 short Screenr screencasts here… Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery Page Speed & YSlow Firebug Extensions to Inc... [More]

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Yesterday I posted my first short Screenr screencast Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Today I decided to record another screencast, and I decided to dig into the FireQuery add-on for Firebug. FireQuery adds extra functionality to the HTML tab and allows you to vis... [More]

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Tonight I created my first Screenr screencast showcasing the Firefinder Add-on for the popular Firebug Add-on for the even more popular Firefox browser :) Whew, that was a mouth full! Firefinder is a helpful tool when creating a selector for jQuery, which is usually where you start for most jQuery ... [More]

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There is a feature of ASP.NET that isn't widely known called MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback, which is a common way of maintaining the scroll position after a Postback. Behind the scenes ASP.NET passes a hidden variable with the page location and resets it with JavaScript after the page re-renders.... [More]

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Yesterday I posted a Twitter poll asking the community for their top 5 jQuery resources on Twitter for tips, tricks, and plugins.

And without further ado, here is your list of top jQuery tweeple to follow on Twitter...

Note: I only kept entries that had more than one vote represented.

Brandon Aaron 155 Followers Ajaxian 379 Followers Mohammad Azam 112 Followers Rey Bango 591 Followers Chris Coyier 4,210 Followers Drew Douglass 141 Followers Ariel Flesler 164 Followers Janko Jovanovic 94 Followers jQuery 1,897 Followers jQuery Sites 200 Followers jQuery UI 634 Followers Calvin Lee 2,936 Followers

Elijah Manor 5,187 Followers NETTUTS 1,766 Followers John Resig 7,291 Followers Remy Sharp 405 Followers Andy Sowards 1,575 Followers Rick Strahl 1,026 Followers Karl Swedberg 301 Followers David Walsh 492 Followers Dave Ward 219 Followers Ralph Whitbeck 234 Followers Jörn Zaefferer 138 Followers

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