When learning jQuery understanding the principle behind callbacks & the elusive ‘this’ can be extremely difficult. In this little tip I hope to remove some of the difficulty from understanding these useful principles.

A fairly common sight in these modern times of social networking is the famous Twitter tab. This is a tab that floats on the left or right hand side of your browser window & follows you. Here is how to go slightly further than that by making it slide out.

In this first coding tip we are going to look at a small, but very helpful tip for those starting out with jQuery animation. Who knows maybe even some of those who are familiar with jQuery have missed it.

Not so much a tutorial, but a little jQuery snippet that might help someone. This snippet detects a users desktop resolution and then does something fancy with it.

What’s going on? A forum I maintain got hacked, jQuery released version 1.4 including the long awaited core version of delay, and I’m considering going into Apple application development?

jFlow is a powerful jQuery plugin used to generate featured slide areas in websites. They are brilliant for featuring important articles in your blog, but integrating it into WordPress can be tricky. This tutorial will explain how to take the difficulty out of it.

Variable scope is something that comes in handy in most coding languages, in my experience though it is invaluble in Javascript. If you are sitting thinking, ‘but what the hell is it’, then let me explain. Variable scope is a set of rules applied to a variable telling it where & it what context it [...]

So that website Confused.com has a new feature that they have coined the highlighter, very original. It is quite impressive though. It allows you to highlight all the rows that match a certain criteria. Seeing as confused.com is a insurance comparison website it would allow you to highlight the insurers that will give you no [...]

Ok, so yesterday I did a tutorial about making a animation similar to that which WordPress uses when you delete posts etc. You know the fade to red & slide up thing… Yep? Good.

Ok, so I don’t want to act like I’m copying or anything, but a few people asked me recently how to make an animation like WordPress has when it deletes a row in it’s tables. Well in Mootools it can be acheved by following this great tutorial by David Walsh. However I was asked how [...]