Right-o Sydney jQuery cats: here it is! One night only! Saturday afternoon/evening drinks with the one-and-only… John Resig! He’s probably tired from his many flights and Web Stock obligations, so here is our chance to trick him into staying in Australia for good. I’m in the process of setting up a meetup on the jQuery meetup site (Join the Sydney group, and I’ll update the meetup details) but for now, here’s the details:
Welcome to the year twenty hundred and ten! As a very early christmas present, the jQuery team have announced they’ll be dropping the 1.4 release on us in the next couple of days. They’ve also unveiled a 
DIY Old-school racing game: Part 1
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Remember Pole Position? Outrun? PowerDrift? Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge? Yeah you do! Remember jQuery 1.4? Most likely! Let’s combine those two memories into one DIY project and make our very own old-school racing game with jQuery 1.4, shall we?
To prove it could work, here’s an early proof-of-concept to hopefully pique your interest. It’ll take us a few posts to get there – but that was just something I cobbled together (and the perspective is messed up)… it will be even cooler when we arrive!
.index() becomes cool in jQuery 1.4
Saturday, December 5, 2009
With jQuery 1.4 just around the corner, it’s time to start looking at what’s new. One nice change is the updated functionality of the index method. Previously, well, it was a pain in the bum to get the index of an element in a selection – and required a pretty convoluted syntax. Now it’s super easy… $(this).index(). Let’s have a look at a ‘lil example:
JavaScript iPhone Games: Part II
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Interesting JavaScript times abound! Recently the Pie Guy JavaScript iPhone game has provided a sneak-peek at what we can do with the awesome one-two punch of ECMAScript and the iPhone. Accordingly, I went back and applied some pie-guy tricks to my platformer…