FTA: "While having the onChange event on a SELECT element is great and saves a click, it’s important to note that the functionality breaks completely if the user doesn’t have javascript enabled. In that case, it’s important to show the submit button. Here’s how to keep your bases covered."

New version of Kwicks for jQuery with LOTS of new features: vertical mode, new min option, sticky mode, custom triggers, and more!

Mixing the random characteristics of scattered dirt with purposeful lettering can be tricky, but I feel this effect does a decent job of providing just that.

10 features that any blogging platform's comment system should support, that Blogger doesn't.

A helpful top level introduction to Monorail's (sparsely documented) new routing engine. Not so much of an overview, but will certainly help you get the ball rolling if you're still scratching your head...

Top level discussion no how a language's typing (i.e. strict or loose) impacts how effectively an IDE can be implemented. The focus is given on the autocomplete functionality.

Knowing your hosting environment's limitations before developing a website is a must. This practical script by David Walsh analyzes your host 's availability across a definable set of extensions.

Quick little jQuery trick that allows you to add a hover class (similar to the :hover selector) to any HTML element.

For those of you jQuery fans who have been ashamedly drooling over the perfectly simple Kwicks effect for Mootools, now you can have it too.

Firefox's regular expression engine is notoriously slower than that of IE - but Firefox 3 Beta 5 is showing some serious progress in narrowing the gap. In my tests, Firefox 3 Beta 5 was finishing in less than half the time that it takes its predecessor.

In a nutshell, Asciible does all your ascii encoding for you. This obviously isn't the first utility to offer this service, but I have tried to make it the fastest and most flexible. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

Well, the JDK7 Project is underway, and despite the fact that I am being moved into the .NET world for some new projects, I wanted to leave some parting thoughts with the Java community. These are a few things that I propose would make Java a better, more friendly, more flexible language.

A quick write up on one of my discoveries concerning Hibernate Proxy Objects and using annotations. Lazy loading in Hibernate, though often necessary, can be treacherous territory. The solution in this post took me embarrassingly long to arrive at - but hopefully it'll save you some grief.

jTruncate is a lightweight, highly customizable plugin for jQuery. In a nutshell, jTruncate provides simple truncation for text entities in your web page.

Jut a quick post about the algorithm I'm using to generate my tag cloud. I found a few sample algorithms already out there, but many of them seemed either inefficient, or didn't return the size that I was expecting. Considering that the algorithm I'm using for my blog is running on the client side, I wanted to make sure that it was especially efficient. Here's what I ended up coming up with...

So just how popular has jQuery become in such a short time? The answer is VERY. Check out these graphs from Alexa and Google Trends.