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In Lean Times, Online Coupons Are Catching On

Posted by brandon in Coupon on Nov 30 with no comments

NY Times article: In Lean Times, Online Coupons Are Catching On, excerpts:
… Shoppers obsessed with finding these bargains share the latest intelligence on dozens of sites with quirky names like RetailMeNot.com, FatWallet.com and the Budget Fashionista. And more consumers than ever are scanning the listings before making a purchase at their favorite Web site.
… Her [...]

jQuery Autocomplete Plugin 2

Posted by brandon in Development on Nov 16 with no comments

Continuing from my last post.
Some notes:

You can give a wrapped set as a second argument to a selector such as: $(’p’, wrappedSet). This is the same as wrappedSet.find(’p’).
The CSS selector ‘> *’ returns direct descendants of an element. For example, $(’> *’, $(’ul.fred’)) would bring back the list elements of any list with class ‘fred’.
The [...]

jQuery Autocomplete Plugin

Posted by brandon in Development on Nov 9 with 2 comments

Some notes from looking at Yehuda Katz and Rein Henrichs autocomplete plugin:

I don’t understand when authors of provide no documentation. Programmers don’t really like doing documentation but this would get many more people to use the plugin.
It took me a while to figure out what events like ‘click.autocomplete’ were. Turns out that jQuery has a [...]

jQuery Templating Plugin

Posted by brandon in Development on Nov 3 with no comments

I wanted to take a look at the templating plugin included in the jQuery distribution (for some reason, there is no documentation of it on jquery.com, this is the same templating plugin included in ReinH/Katz autocomplete plugin here). It’s not the best documented plugin but it’s short so should be quick to figure out.
Basically, [...]