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First post in some time. There is a good reason thoug. I joined Mozilla almost a month ago, will write more about that soon, and have been crazy busy getting set-up etc. Also, I will be blogging less here and will mostly be posty my articles over on the Mozilla WebDev blog. Today then is the first time of many, that I will post short excerpts here that will point to the WebDev blog, enjoy:

Node.js is an evented system, that …

Today is the second installment of LinkedList. The amount of links shared will differ from week to week but I am sure you will always find something to spark your creativity and fuel your week.

Having spent a whole lot of time sharing, and reading links shared by others, on Google+ and through my Google Reader account, I have decided it is about time a stop thinking about it and do it already

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There is a bunch of Lightbox style jQuery plugins, from the original Lightbox to some of the new alternatives such as FancyBox. So why another jQuery plugin? Well, at around 1kb(546 bytes gzipped) minified, SimpleBox is extremely light and provides you with a nice little dialog for your confirmation messages, forms and just about anything where a full LightBox is just overkill.

Using SimpleBox is extremely simple too, include the JS file, one image, and a couple of lines of CSS …

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article where I changed the way jQuery’s hide() and show() function work. After publishing the article there was quite a lot of comments where people expressed their dislike of the idea of changing these two functions. Thinking about it, I see how the title of the article led people to believe that I was suggesting that jQuery should change their hide() and show() functions to use positioning as apposed to display.

In fact …