I’m currently close to finishing a bunch of server side stuff for an application that I’m developing. The next phase will be to overhaul the UI in order to improve usability and expose some new features that have been built into the application base. To this end I’ve been browsing various jQuery plugin directories looking [...]
This experiment started out as an excercise in using jQuery to fetch a JSON feed from Yahoo Pipes and then displaying it. In order to make it more interesting I decided to use Pipes to attempt to find a photo from Flickr for each entry in a twitter feed.
Step 1 - Fetching the Twitter data
Rather [...]
I spotted this today on ajaxian, it a nice idea for beating spambots without resorting to captcha.
The idea is to use jQuery’s drag and drop functionality based on the assumption that spambots can’t interact with the page in this way. I could see an elegant UI solution which spawned the comment form on demand (e.g. [...]
