Building stateful jQuery plugins

Background Over the past few years, jQuery has dominated the web development community with its simple, yet brilliant, API. The “find elements, do something” pattern and ability to chain function calls together combine to create code that reads like English. jQuery’s simplicity and almost nonexistent learning curve have made it extremely popular among developers and… Continue reading Building stateful jQuery plugins

Basic usage of the jQuery UI dialog

The jQuery UI dialog, like many jQuery UI plugins, is extremely easy to get started with but has a few areas that causes new users some trouble.  One of the most commonly asked questions on the jquery-ui list is “Why does my dialog only open once?”  In this article I’ll explain the problem these users… Continue reading Basic usage of the jQuery UI dialog