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No doubt that Web2.0 is one of the best things that happened in our lifetime (besides the internet itself). When we mention Web2.0 first things that come into our minds are AJAX, rounded corners, clean and light layouts and of course RSS feeds. Nowadays, you either provide an RSS feed or consume it in your web app using AJAX/JavaScript. The only bad thing is that you can not request cross-site

No doubt that Web2.0 is one of the best things that happened in our lifetime (besides the internet itself). When we mention Web2.0 first things that come into our minds are AJAX, rounded corners, clean and light layouts and of course RSS feeds. Nowadays, you either provide an RSS feed or consume it in your web app using AJAX/JavaScript. The only bad thing is that you can not request cross-site

This month, October, is a National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The aim is to increase cyber and internet security awareness among surfers. Google and others are joining the move. So I thought I would write a post regarding internet security to add my 2 cents. In this post you will find JavaScript function that generates random passwords of any length as well as jQuery version. JavaScript

This month, October, is a National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The aim is to increase cyber and internet security awareness among surfers. Google and others are joining the move. So I thought I would write a post regarding internet security to add my 2 cents. In this post you will find JavaScript function that generates random passwords of any length as well as jQuery version. JavaScript

I recently came across a 2 dimensional barcode called QR Code. QR code’s are popular in Japan and they are mainly used there to quickly get to some website on their mobiles by simply taking a picture of the QR code. You may read more about QR codes on Wikipedia. Here is an example of QR code for jQuery HowTo blog: If you have a QR code reader on your mobile take a picture of it and it will

I recently came across a 2 dimensional barcode called QR Code. QR code’s are popular in Japan and they are mainly used there to quickly get to some website on their mobiles by simply taking a picture of the QR code. You may read more about QR codes on Wikipedia. Here is an example of QR code for jQuery HowTo blog: If you have a QR code reader on your mobile take a picture of it and it will

Writing short scripts and jQuery tips on Fridays became some kind of habit. So this Friday I will give you a small jQuery utility function that will give you a way to get any YouTube video’s still image or in other words any YouTube video’s thumbnail. All you need to know is that YouTube video’s URL address or at least video’s YouTube ID. Couple of months ago I wrote a javascript function that

Writing short scripts and jQuery tips on Fridays became some kind of habit. So this Friday I will give you a small jQuery utility function that will give you a way to get any YouTube video’s still image or in other words any YouTube video’s thumbnail. All you need to know is that YouTube video’s URL address or at least video’s YouTube ID. Couple of months ago I wrote a javascript function that

I was asked to create a user interface locker using jQuery. The main idea behind was to lock all user interactions with the website while jQuery AJAX loads block contents and unlock when content is loaded. So I thought I would share the code and released it as a jQuery plugin called uiLock. The plugin extends jQuery and adds two main functions called $.uiLock(); and $.uiUnlock(); Here is how to

I was asked to create a user interface locker using jQuery. The main idea behind was to lock all user interactions with the website while jQuery AJAX loads block contents and unlock when content is loaded. So I thought I would share the code and released it as a jQuery plugin called uiLock. The plugin extends jQuery and adds two main functions called $.uiLock(); and $.uiUnlock(); Here is how to

Today I came across this post called “IP Address Geolocation Javascript API : JSON”. The author provides you with a free geolocation query URL. The API returns the geographical location of the queried IP address with some additional information such as: { 'status':'ok', 'IP': '74.125.45.100', 'CountryCode': 'US', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'RegionName': 'California', 'ZipPostalCode':

Today I came across this post called “IP Address Geolocation Javascript API : JSON”. The author provides you with a free geolocation query URL. The API returns the geographical location of the queried IP address with some additional information such as: { 'status':'ok', 'IP': '74.125.45.100', 'CountryCode': 'US', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'RegionName': 'California', 'ZipPostalCode':

I recently signed up to twitter and actively engaging with people who are interested in jQuery. Twitter is a great service and there are all kinds of developers who are sharing interesting links and resources. So it is some kind of interest news group for me. Since you can only have 140 characters in your post, sharing long links limits you. URL shortening services to the rescue. There are lots

I recently signed up to twitter and actively engaging with people who are interested in jQuery. Twitter is a great service and there are all kinds of developers who are sharing interesting links and resources. So it is some kind of interest news group for me. Since you can only have 140 characters in your post, sharing long links limits you. URL shortening services to the rescue. There are lots

We all use Firebug and sometimes need jQuery in pages that don’t already have it. In such cases you can use the following javascript code or the bookmarklet that would insert jQuery into the page’s DOM on the fly. Thus making jQuery available for use in Firebug. Load jQuery to Firebug Here are two options to jQuerify any page. The code is taken from a jQuerify javascript code snippet by John

We all use Firebug and sometimes need jQuery in pages that don’t already have it. In such cases you can use the following javascript code or the bookmarklet that would insert jQuery into the page’s DOM on the fly. Thus making jQuery available for use in Firebug. Load jQuery to Firebug Here are two options to jQuerify any page. The code is taken from a jQuerify javascript code snippet by John

Since writing on this blog I posted two jQuery plugins and I needed to compress my js files. So as jQuery documentation suggests I used YUICompressor. YUICompressor is javascript and CSS file/code compressor written in Java language. So to run one yourself you will need JRE installed on your machine. Then call this command: java -jar /path/to/yuicompressor.jar path/to/file.js -o path/to/

Since writing on this blog I posted two jQuery plugins and I needed to compress my js files. So as jQuery documentation suggests I used YUICompressor. YUICompressor is javascript and CSS file/code compressor written in Java language. So to run one yourself you will need JRE installed on your machine. Then call this command: java -jar /path/to/yuicompressor.jar path/to/file.js -o path/to/