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 for Designers” which is the cover story for Web Designer Magazine issue 189 and is on starting sale October 19, 2011.

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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 I would like the value split into two fields and stored in the database in two different columns First Name and Last Name. Using JavaScript and a little simple trickery, we can make this happen.

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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, so I decided to explain how to create it below.
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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 how the book has turned out.
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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 of author review in October and the second round of Author review on Thursday November 4. Im happy to say that the book is on it’s way to Production and I can finally take a breather!
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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 a book on jQuery. The book is titled “Smashing jQuery” and should be out by the end of the year, Im guessing.
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I recently read Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide, a book on how to extend Magento using PHP for developers. The book jumps around a bit, it feels as though the offer just wanted to outline a few key tutorials, while trying to set a solid base for developers who wish to extend Magento.
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After recently building two websites in ExpressionEngine, I came across 5 extensions that proved to be quite helpful in putting together a great content managed site.
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