Archive for August, 2008
JQuery tips and tricks #2
Here’s my JQuery tip of the day:
Never use .css():
always use removeClass() and addClass().
When I started out in JQuery, I used to do this a lot:
$(“.someclass”).css(“border”,”1px solid black”).css(“opacity”, .7) .css(“background-color”,#FEEFFE”);
This worked well for me, especially for rapid prototyping/trying things out. However, I’ve graduated from this and wish I had a lot earlier.
Here are some reasons why [...]
Idea #142 – Online tips
TipJoy and TipIt are both Content tip systems. Bloggers leave a tipjar on their site, and users leave tips if they feel the urge to. They are both the same, with a one major difference – TipIt has a marketing agenda (while TipJoy does not…)
These are both interesting models that deal with signal – how [...]
The MIT Scratch user experience
I’ve just started playing around with MIT’s scratch, a way to program games and movies online. I’m in love with the user interface – they really got many, many things right. This is now the #1 tool I would recommend anyone who is interested in programming.
Let me list a few of the things they did [...]
