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jQuery Mania – My New Project

Jake Rutter — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:14:40 +0000

Its been awhile since I have posted, been pretty busy on multiple projects during day and night. One project that Im particulary excited about is called jQueryMania.com, which is a new blog/website all about jQuery news, plugings, books, videos, tutorials, [...]

jQuery for Designers – Web Designer Magazine Article available now!

Jake Rutter — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:54:30 +0000

It’s been a little while since I have posted, but there is good reason as I have been busy with other projects. One project that I’m particularly proud of is I just wrote my first magazine article. The article is [...]

jQuery: Text Input Split Tutorial

Jake Rutter — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:37:48 +0000

This tutorial will show you how to take one input field and split the contents into two hidden fields, which is useful when you have limited space on a form. In my example, I have a field called Name, but [...]

Building a better image mouseover using jQuery

Jake Rutter — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:56:46 +0000

jQuery is a very versatile library when it comes to manipulating the DOM and proved to be instrumental in creating an image mouseover script recently for a friend’s website. I feel as though what I created is rather elegant, [...]

Smashing jQuery by Jake Rutter

Jake Rutter — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:45:42 +0000

My new book, Smashing jQuery, is now available in Kindle format on Amazon and will also be available in paperback format starting Feb. 8th. I received my first few copies of the book on Monday and Im very pleased with [...]

Upcoming jQuery Book Reviews

Jake Rutter — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:49:16 +0000

I have two new jQuery related books loaded on my iPad which I will be posting reviews of once I have finished reading them:

jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide

Build powerful, interactive plugins to implement jQuery in the best way possible

WordPress 3.0 [...]

Search and geocode a location with jQuery and the Google Maps API

Jake Rutter — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:02:05 +0000

Using jQuery, you can easily build a Google Maps integration that allows users to search for a location and have it plotted on a Google Map using the extensive Google Maps API. This script could be used in as a [...]

Smashing jQuery Book – Editing Stage Complete!

Jake Rutter — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:11:06 +0000

As of Thursday November 4, I have completed phase two of the editing stage of my book Smashing jQuery. I started the project back in July, completing the writing stage at the end of September, then completed the first round [...]

Smashing jQuery Book.

Jake Rutter — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:30:31 +0000

Hello, It has been a few months since I have written a post, but for good reason. I have been busy both at work with two new website implementations and more importantly in my spare time I have been writing [...]

jQuery Facebook Like Plugin

Jake Rutter — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:40:59 +0000

The Facebook Like button has become very popular with the recent release of the Open Graph API. This plugin allows you to add the Facebook Like button to any website and use all of the options associated with the Facebook [...]