Unemployed Developer

Doing a little bit of self promotion here, in hopes of getting some notice for my first jQuery plugin.

I decided to create a Google Maps plugin and carry over many of the different features that the Google Maps API offers in jQuery form. The goal of this plugin was to make a quick and easy way for someone to implement a Google Map on their page with minimal to intermediate experience.

This plugin has many cool features, well at least my mom says they are cool! I’ve given the ability to allow a user to put options on the map from single to multiple markers, polyline, panning, depth, latitude, longitude and more. You can see some working examples at my web development portfolio.
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I really should keep up on these link roundups, but you know…

How to Get Hired at a Startup

This is a real interesting post for those looking at getting hired at a startup. Most startups I know are looking for the relationship over the merits of a potential employee. This blog posts highlights some useful tips to help you show the company that you will fit in. If some of these tips don’t apply to you, then chances are low you will get hired. Read More

10 Performance Tips to Speed Up PHP

I like to read about these performance tips even though I know and do my best to practice them in my code. I think it’s important to always ensure your code not only works but works efficiently.. Read More

8 Very Useful jQuery forms

We all like lists don’t we? Well this site has a great but small list of useful jQuery form plugins. jQuery is my favorite JavaScript library and I don’t hesitate to use it where necessary. Some of these plugins are great to use in web forms. it can give your forms and added edge in professionalism, in my opinion. (beware of users who turn JavaScript off!!)… Read More

23 Pure CSS Effects/Solutions to Make JavaScript Angry!

I can’t just leave well enough alone can I? The last link I’m promoting JavaScript, and now I’m promoting CSS solutions to make JavaScript Angry! This is another nice long list of effects that can be achieved in CSS and/or JavaScript. some of these would be better suited as some users still browse the web with JavaScript off… Read More

I just wanted to write a simple and quick tutorial taking our initial Object Oriented JavaScript postings(Object-Oriented JavaScript – Part II (encapsulation) &
Object-Oriented JavaScript – Part I (Objects)) and expand on them using jQuery.

If you recall we had a Person object and a getName method inside of it. How would we do this in jQuery?

To run jQuery we need to get the latest library file from their website. Or you can connect to the library file on their code repository. But keep in mind if the code repository goes down while your site is up, your JavaScript will become broken. Best practices would be to download the latest library and host it on your server with the rest of your code. For these examples we will explain using the code repository link. Read more »