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January 2nd, 2010

jQuery Image Resize Plugin

Few days ago i wrote jQuery Plugin Tutorial, today i want to give away my first open source jQuery plugin: image resizer. I made sure that it’s compatible with all major browsers: IE6+, FF3, Opera10, Chrome (didn’t check with Safari, hope someone can do it for me).

The whole idea was to make it as simple as possible to resize image to given size. The common problem developers face is to resize image to (for example) no more then 150px width or no more then 75px height and because getting real image size is not as simple as it seems i think you will find this plugin useful.

Posted in JavaScript, Projects
By Greg

December 31st, 2009

jQuery Plugin Tutorial

jQuery is getting really popular lately. Employers looking for JavaScript developers often requires them to know this library inside out, so today i want to show you my practical guide to jQuery plugins development. With the emphasis on best practices in plugin development. Creating plugin is plain simple, but developing a high quality plugin is a different story. Further more it shocks me that there are tons of tutorials online that do not even make distinction between jQuery extension and jQuery Plugin.

Posted in JavaScript
By Greg

October 19th, 2008

BlackBird – JavaScript logging tool

If you ever created a script with JS, you probably know how painful logging messages with alert() function is. Not only you can see one message at the time but also you need to click OK button to go further. I think this is the reason why Scott Olson created BlackBird project. As you can see on the screenshoot, this project is not only useful but also looks great.

In this post i want to briefly review this utility and then show you how to use it, so if you are not interested in the review you can just skip ext part.

Posted in JavaScript
By Greg