Rodney Rehm

You probably know all about rolling your own plugins for jQuery. But did you know that some core jQuery functions have their own "plugin API" called "hooks"?

Many tools come with an installation / setup / configuration procedure. At this stage directories needed by the tool or its components usually don't yet exist. For Smarty based systems this poses a problem, as Smarty writes compiled templates to a designated directory. So if the installer is built upon Smarty, the developer is presented a hen/egg problem.

Click events are a godsend from hell. Here's how you can avoid at least one of the many problems they bring to the table: the end of a drag is not a click.

URI.js is a Javascript library for working with URLs (without going insane or shooting yourself in the head). It was released in the last week of 2011. Here's some background from a week after launch.

Thinking Outside The Box was the goal of the past couple of days at the Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Düsseldorf. What are conferences about? What makes them special? Why should you attend them?