Lots of people have asked me this question: which is better when loading data via an ajax request? JSON is my favorite. I’m going to try and explain the benefits of JSON over XML.

With jQuery there are many ways to select elements. We are going to cover two of the most popular selectors id and class.

The document.ready() function is the first thing anyone should learn about jQuery. This function will allow you to take all that ugly behavioral javascript out of your markup.

This series of articles will explain how to retrieve information from Twitter using their API, and ways you can display it on your website in an attractive way. In Part 2 we will add some simple CSS to the tweet to make it look nice, and display all the data the twitter API returns.

Everyone has to start somewhere. So lets get you setup to begin learning jQuery. The first thing you will need to do is get jQuery setup and running on your site. Now let’s get started.

This series of articles will explain how to retrieve information from Twitter using their API, and ways you can display it on your website in an attractive way. Part one we will go over the basic of the Twitter API and look at some simple code that will print out a list of tweets.

That’s Right! We are signed up to join 298 other web professionals in Cambridge for this years jQuery Conference. The conference will be held September 12th and 13th at Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Boston, MA.

If you’re like me, you installed the Google Analyticator plugin for your blog or added some other javascript so you could track what outgoing links where clicked. You will have extra pageviews showing in your Google Analytics account that are what I call “ghost pages.” These pages don’t really exist–they are just place holders for the clicks to other sites or your downloads. To get a more accurate number of pageviews, you can use Advanced Segments to create a new segment that will remove these ghost pages. So go log into your Google Analytics account and let’s get started.

Building on the post Reading XML with jQuery, I have modified the success function to parse the XML data and load it into a drop-down box. You can get the demo files from Reading XML with jQuery here. Once you download and unzip the demo files, open the index.html in your favorite editor. Then remove all the HTML between the body tag and also all the jQuery in the success function. I also changed the page title to “Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box Demo.”

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