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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 [...]

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 [...]

Book Review: Magento 1.3 – PHP Developer’s Guide

Jake Rutter — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:23:25 +0000

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 [...]

5 Excellent ExpressionEngine Extensions

Jake Rutter — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:39:31 +0000

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.

FieldFrame – Allows you to create and add custom field types to ExpressionEngine such as [...]

PNG Compression for Mac – ImageOptim

Jake Rutter — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:39:26 +0000

I love working with PNG’s because they offer true alpha transparency, with the downsides being that IE6 doesnt support alpha transparency and their file size can be not so great compared to a .jpg image. Sometimes you will see a [...]

Expression Engine: My CMS of Choice.

Jake Rutter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:47:05 +0000

For about the past 3 years, I have been all about WordPress not only for blogs, but also to be used as a content management system. The core of WordPress is for blogging, but many people have started to adapt [...]