jQuery Cookie problem – persistence and duplication

5 January 2011

I’ve started to use cookies to maintain user state and the jQuery Cookie plugin provides simple functions to create, read and delete cookies. However, I came across a problem where state didn’t appear to be persisting and on viewing the cookie information, using the web developer toolbar, I had multiple versions of the same cookie.

Front-end developer essentials – 5 tips for efficient jQuery

11 December 2010

Over the last few months I’d like to think my skills in jQuery have got a lot better, I’ve been using it everyday and for more than just showing and hiding areas of a page. Along the way I’ve read about a few ways in which you can make your code a bit more efficient.

My review of Amazon’s Kindle (3rd generation)

6 December 2010

I recently bought myself Amazon’s new Kindle and whilst I really like it, the only people I’d feel happy recommending it to are those that travel and read a lot! I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and I’ve come up with a few thumbs up and few thumbs down for it:

WAI-ARIA to enhance form validation

1 December 2010

As a follow on from WAI-ARIA states and properties: Practical examples, I wanted to write up a bit more of what I’ve been adding to my current project. These examples all fall under how to cope with form validation and giving assistive-technology AT a view of what is going on.