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, code snippets and pure technical banter.
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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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I have always used WordPress plug-ins to setup social media sharing links, but what I don’t love about plug-ins is that you really don’t know what sort of code is being injected into your WordPress installation. If you are curious, add a few plug-ins and View the Source of your webpage, more times than not the head gets filled with JS includes and messy code. Call me a code freak, but I strive for cleanliness.

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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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Today I’m releasing v0.2 of my WordPress Custom Field Geocoder! I started working on creating a google map on my WordPress installation and soon realized that I needed to make some changes to the plugin.
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I have finally finished my first WordPress plugin, which is a geocoder utility for geocoding addresses and storing the longitude and latitude as custom fields. I have been looking for a plugin that did something similar, but was unable to find anything – so decided instead to challenge myself and build a WordPress plugin.
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Its been awhile since I have last posted, but just wanted to drop an update in on what I have been working on lately. I’ve turned down the freelance and have been working on my own projects; my latest project is a wordpress plugin for geocoding. I searched high and low on Google for a wordpress plugin which would take an address, geocode it and return the long/lat.
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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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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 jQuery

  Enhance your WordPress website with the captivating effects of jQuery.