message query for with jquery

Lunches for the week all made!

Weekend nearly over, but jobs are done, Harry's bathed and about to go to bed (Clare's doing the last top up feed), dinner is in and so are my lunches for the week of sausages or vegeburger, peas and potatoes*. So we're about ready to eat and relax f...

Woohoo eight hours sleep!

Last night, not me as it goes but Harry. I woke him up for the normal last feed of the night at 10.30, he guzzled greedily, went back to bed sucking his thumb and did not wake until just after 7am this morning. That's his first time of sleeping right...

jquery not browser compliant enough for the BBC

It's political correctness gone mad!BBC explains here, this is GLOW, JQuery is DA BOMB! It's good for the BBC to innovate, but I'm not sure it's in anyone's interest (or the best use of license payer funds) to try to compete with EVERYBODY....

Kent libraries Amazon Firefox Greasemonkey mashup

I've made a firefox plugin, to look up if a book's available in the library when you're viewing its page on Amazon. Normally I'd be sending people TO Amazon rather than from Amazon, hoping to make a commission, but here's where I give something back....

twfeed.js - twitter feed javascript badge / widget you can use for free

Get it here, a simple js feed thing that I wrote for my blog and am spreading round a few other places. Look out non techie / web page owning readers, example code coming up, you might as well turn away now...I know there are billions of these out th...

Happy Halloween

Is there a geekier pumpkin out there?

Yes, very simple stuff

I use it on my own admin pages here, but I've done some new things with the dates that I really like. Using jquery ui datepicker just makes things great, haven't transferred that here yet though....

Google Maps API + Thickbox

Had some trouble for a while at work with getting our google maps working with this thickbox, and I put it off for ages (telling people not to put a map in a lightbox), but today I got to the bottom of it. Don't load your map until the lightbox has l...

My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click ...

Mulled wine! And BEER!

This one's mostly for Dean, I know he likes to hear about how hard we're working at work. We're having another one of our fun days tomorrow, one last barbecue to celebrate a big deal working out, and everyone working hard to make it happen. Also, you...

jquery is great

I use it for everything, it's well recommended. I'm sure prototype is good now too, but jquery is tiny, and does everything you need, and the code you write with it is tiny too. I have got really into the way you select things to do things to too. As...

RE: xml namespaces in jquery

i dont have an answer to your q (sorry) but was wondering what you make of jquery? i've just started a new project for upmystreet and we're using prototype/scriptaculous but just had a look at the jquery site and it looks quite neat. when are we goin...

xml namespaces in jquery

How do I access xml tags in other namespaces using jquery? If I have some xml like: hey yeah woo I can easily get any of the elements with something like $('thing')but how do I get them if the elements are namespaced, like hey yea...

Sly new coding feature

Updated my AJAX selector, the bit of a form that (on here) looks like this:but you can't click that one, it's just an image... Usually when you see one of these on one of my pages it's going to select something from one of my databases, but I put som...