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For those that have a small case of “Mac envy”, this post is for you (and me, honestly). One of the neatest things about the Mac OS user interface is the “fisheye” menu at the bottom of the screen. You know the one, where there is a dock bar with icons on it, and when [...]

A useful feature, and high “value add” to many sites today is a text box with autocomplete and suggestion as you type. The powerful jQuery JavaScript library makes this really easy to do, especially with the help of the excellent autocomplete plugin from bassistance.de. In this example we will setup a page to search for [...]

I’m happy to announce my second plugin is up on the jQuery website for download, AP Text Counter. This is a simple plugin that implements a text limiter and counter mechanism in jQuery, complete with customizable options and useful callbacks to know when various events occur. Here are the links, so go give it a [...]

While using my little tag plugin, AP Tags, I ran into a small snag where I have a dialog box that I am crafting dynamically using jQuery UI. In this dialog I have my tag plugin, and I am calling it every time a different “Edit” link is created. I’m doing this so I can [...]

Today had a need to work with a page that needed to allowed the quick upload of multiple images. I decided pretty quickly that a basic loop of file upload text boxes would be too icky, and did a quick search for what jQuery plugins were available. The first one on the list, and most [...]

Don’t know if anyone else has had to do this, and it seems so simple, but it took me a couple of minutes to find this. I have a ColdFusion page with a lot of jQuery magic happening with a popup dialog that allows the user to edit address information. This dialog has a list [...]

Oftentimes we developers overlook the simplest solutions to a given problem. And I must confess that I am the worst, often looking for the most complex, reusable, scalable solution to something as simple as “How do I display a list of promotions in a tabular format while showing them details of the promo?”

As I [...]

For all you jQuery fans out there, take a look at my first plugin! This plugin is a tagging component, similar to what is used to tag blog entries, for example. I had a good time making it, and found jQuery plugin development rather easy and fun. Check it out.