Software Blog: jQuery

As I suggested in part 1 of this series, I recently discovered the wonderful world of jQuery, the "write less, do more javascript library". And sure enough, this is one tool that really lives up to its name! Not only can you do all sorts of neat (even useful!) javascript effects and events, but they are suprisingly easy to do! I had put learning this on the backburner a while back, but after publishing my Banner Rotator, I figured it was about time to bring that sucker front and center and start cooking!

The banner rotator script I ...

I've recently been developing a control to display recent news in a rotating fashion. Originally, I was using the RadRotator control from Telerik. This is a powerful control that takes a lot of the guesswork out of displaying and rotating news. However, I decided to build my own for two reasons.

First, I didn't like the way the rotator control loads ALL of the news items before running. The RadRotator works by preloading all of the elements, placing each item into its own div element, then cycling through each, toggling visibility of each one at a time. This solution works ...