There’s no guarantee that the users of your plugin will have the $() shortcut mapped to JQuery, so internally you should replace it with it’s JQuery() alias. This is specifically an issue for pages utilizing both JQuery and Prototype (and thus anyone using the server-side framework Ruby on Rails). I’m sure this has been covered […]

It turns out I’m not the only one who finds Snap.com’s javascript website-preview popups incredibly annoying, useless and distracting. They provide a global-disable option, but it stores your preferences in a cookie - hardly an ideal solution; cookies aren’t exactly permanent. Another way to disable Snap would be via greasemonkey script, but I find this […]

Well, I’m back from my cruise (it was amazing), and I finally got my laptop back (does anyone consider two weeks a reasonable turnaround for a simple dvd drive replacement?), as well as my replacement HTC Apache. ppcgeeks.com is spitting out 500 errors, so I’m stuck with Verizon’s crap firmware. Oh well. March has been […]

Are the benefits of OS-integrated virtualization being outweighed by the benefits of healthy competition? I have a feeling the next two years will be interesting to watch, however the story plays out.read more | digg story