jquery

Update 2010-09-06: I turned my JavaScript code into a handy plugin for jQuery — let me introduce: jquery-simplerss. So for whatever reason, on a lot of blogs (but not mine ;-)), the sidebar also contains the list of latest entries on said blog. I recently edited a template for a client and he requested the same feature — which put me through three hours of nightmare. Tumblr Tumblr is a hosted blog service....

I know some of you out there are probably tired of jQuery and people raving about it’s goodness, but bare with me! Because jQuery never ceases to amaze me — especially when I haven’t looked at it — or client-side JavaScript code in general — in a good year or so. Refactoring I’ve been refactoring some of my old JavaScript libs on a project and I noticed that I had used evil eval() all over the place to parse the JSON from our API....