I was recently asked on Twitter if I was aware of a simple announcement plugin for jQuery – where a little bar is posted at the top of a website informing the user that some important news/update is taking place. I’m sure you’ve seen them plenty of times. With jQuery, we can create a wrapper for this effect easily and quickly.
Hit the download link below to view examples, download the source, and watch a screencast to learn how to build it yourself!
I’m pleased to announce the release of a new jQuery plugin that I’ve been working on for the last few days, called “filterJSON.”
Imagine that you have a JSON file, and need an easy way to filter through and display its contents on the page. If you’re using a helpful JavaScript library like jQuery, you could use .getJSON() to load and parse the file; however, you’re then left with a huge clump of data to sort through.
Wouldn’t it be easier if there was a way to, in a sense, allow for pagination through these objects? Wouldn’t it be easier if we could set the number of items to display on the page at any given time? That’s exactly what this plugin does.
I’ve been working on a nifty little project for the last few days. To be brief, it’s a jQuery plugin that allows for infinite scrolling. You’ve probably seem similar examples around the web from time to time. But if not, the plugin will either scan an images directory or query a database (depending on which you choose). If you’re pulling in five-hundred rows from a database, it doesn’t make much sense at all to select EVERY row. Instead, we generally use pagination to query only a handful at a time. Instead of clicking on a link to trigger the next page (or set of items), this plugin will automatically display the next set of items when the user scrolls down the page.
