These are my links for March 10th through March 11th: Tweepler (Tweepler.com) - Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two "Buckets" Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore ...

This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open. There are two components to the...

Last year, I did a few reviews of books by Packt Publishing. This year, they got their own back - Packt have asked me to write a book for them called PHP And jQuery. The book is aimed at experienced PHP programmers who are interested in adding a bit of client-side magic to their sites. jQuery is use...

I'm such a jQuery nerd that I set my alarm and woke up early just to be one of the first to blog the good news. If you read my blog, you know I've been playing quite a bit with jQuery, and the jQuery UI project specifically. (Also note I've been blogging on InsideRIA as well.) The version I've been ...

I use jQuery because it’s sickeningly efficient, beautiful, and succinct. I use YUI because it has well tested, well designed, well documented Web UI components.  I use them both together, but I feel a horrible sense of waste as there is so much overlap. YUI 3 provides jQuery like selection a...

jQuery UI sponsor Filament Group is holding an awesome contest: “To celebrate ThemeRoller’s selection as a finalist for the SXSW Web Award for Technical Achievement, we’re holding a contest to give away one free pass to the SXSW Interactive Festival to the person who creates the co...

We released a drop-in replacement for HTML's crappy multiple select element today. It's based on jQuery and doesn't require any changes to the server-side stuff that's receiving your form submission, apart from simple tolerance of one superfluous additional form field. It's cross-browser and it auto...

We like to experiment with new ideas and concepts. We like to challenge ourselves and provide our readers with new formats. This post is the first in our “Ask Smashing Magazine” series, in which well-known developers from the web design community answer our readers’ questions and s...

Useing fadeIn() in jQuery, fonts looks crappy in IE7. I'm using jQuery's fadeIn() (and Out) on a div. Works like a charm, however the fonts in the div look like crap in IE7. Apparently IE turns off Cleartype when you fade stuff. If I use show() and hide(), the fonts look OK, but that's not what I'm ...

Recovering this morning from an amazing day at the DC MSDN Developer Conference in Reston, VA. I had a blast helping out with the keynote, presenting on Azure, and seeing and hanging out with so many folks from the Mid-Atlantic developer community. Also finally got a chance to put some faces with na...