After a very short-lived jQuery 1.2.4 (it was up for less than a day before being marked as a “bad build“), jQuery 1.2.5 has been released into the wild! It contains the usual flurry of patches, optimizations and fixes which are all spelled out in the Release Notes.
Of course, what you really want to know is whether or not this release is compatible with the $.string plugin, and the answer is yes! (Really, I’m sure that’s what was on your mind.)
I’m diverting from my usual web development topics to day to write about what I consider to be a very serious development in our nation’s energy crisis. No, I’m not talking about the price of gasoline which is hovering near $4/gallon. I’m talking about caffeine. I was in Trader Joe’s this morning to buy myself a supply of Trader Joe’s Energy Drinks. I’ve been having trouble finding them lately. The Orange Passion flavor, my personal favorite, is completely out at every location that I’ve visited (about 6 stores total at this point), and many locations are out of the Wild Berry flavor as well. As I was checking out at the Culver City, CA store, I asked the clerk when they were expecting the Orange Passion flavor in. He said that they weren’t!!! The manager then spoke up and said that they were discontinuing the product due to poor sales chain-wide, although he confessed that it was actually a pretty big seller locally. (I was walking out with 16 cans this morning.) Continue reading
I love modern JavaScript libraries. You get a lot of bang for your buck, keep your code clean, and make my life as a JavaScript developer easier in general. I regularly use both jQuery and Prototype in my projects. jQuery is a fantastic javascript library with excellent CSS selector capabilities and DOM manipulation. It’s light-weight and really fast. Prototype is an excellent all-purpose library with many great utility features, including string manipulation, enumerable arrays and hashes. I love using jQuery for its speed and simplicity, but I miss Prototype’s utilities. Luckily, jQuery is very extensible with its versatile plugin system. dotString is a jQuery plugin that aims to bring Prototype’s string manipulation functions to jQuery. Continue reading
After four years, it was time to update stilldesigning.com and bring it into the the blogosphere. Why does Still Designing need a blog? Because we’re doing some really cool stuff these days, and this gives me a place to share thoughts on things that are happening with web technology. New advances in javascript libraries and techniques allow for lots of cool things on your web page that were previously only available through Flash web sites, and Still Designing is going to be there. Cheesy? Maybe. But it should be a pretty fun ride.