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		<title>Dan Wellman&#8217;s jQuery UI 1.7 reviewed</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2010/03/09/dan-wellmans-jquery-ui-1-7-reviewed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Dan Wellman&#8217;s book, jQuery UI 1.7 &#8211; The User Interface Library for jQuery. But with the imminent realease of version 1.8 of the popular interface library, is this book still relevant? In my opinion,  it is.
This book is recommended for beginner to intermediate users of jQuery UI, and it hits the mark perfectly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My MP responds to the Digital Economy Bill</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/11/23/my-mp-responds-to-the-digital-economy-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/11/23/my-mp-responds-to-the-digital-economy-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote to my MP, Thomas McAvoy, regarding my concerns about the Digital Economy Bill, asking him to sign Tom Watson&#8217;s early day motion.
I wasn&#8217;t expecting a response, but I got a letter this morning &#8211; and only a couple of days after emailing him. Kudos.
Here&#8217;s his response:
&#8220;Thank you for your recent email.
Please be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro Javascript Techniques by John Resig &#8211; a review</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/10/03/pro-javascript-techniques-by-john-resig-a-review/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/10/03/pro-javascript-techniques-by-john-resig-a-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AJAX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig, and I thought I&#8217;d post some thoughts about it.
The author, John Resig, is the creator of the popular jQuery library. He also works as a Javascript evangelist for Mozilla, so there&#8217;s no doubt that he&#8217;s one of the best known proponents of the language.
Although I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converting Prototype&#8217;s Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater to jQuery</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/02/18/converting-prototypes-ajaxperiodicalupdater-to-jquery/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/02/18/converting-prototypes-ajaxperiodicalupdater-to-jquery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AJAX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I missed when switching from Prototype to jQuery was the former&#8217;s Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater function. It is used to provide a &#8216;decay&#8217; mechanism for ajax calls, making them less and less frequent if the retrieved content doesn&#8217;t change inbetween calls.
It can be a seriously useful piece of functionality. I took a chatroom that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using JSON to access the Twitter search API</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/02/07/using-json-to-access-the-twitter-search-api/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2009/02/07/using-json-to-access-the-twitter-search-api/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AJAX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Reynolds recently wrote a blog post showing how to access the twitter search API using PHP, cURL, and JQuery.
Steve used JQuery to post to a page on his server, which then cURLed in search results for a given term. This approach is often necessary to get avoid the issue of cross domain ajax calls.
While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing index.php for Codeigniter (Zeus Server)</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/12/06/removing-indexphp-for-codeigniter-zeus-server/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/12/06/removing-indexphp-for-codeigniter-zeus-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codeigniter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mod rewrite]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post &#8211; spent a few hours the other night trying to get Zeus Rewrite to play ball so that this:
http://www.example.com/index.php/controller
turned into this:
http://www.example.com/controller
There&#8217;s a distinct lack of examples for Zeus rewrite, but here&#8217;s what worked for me:
map path into SCRATCH:DOCROOT from /

set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = %{URL}

look for file at %{SCRATCH:DOCROOT}%{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}
if not exists then look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Select multi lists suck!</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/11/28/select-multi-lists-suck/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/11/28/select-multi-lists-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[select lists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently involved in a project where there were two multi-select lists involved, with a big number of options &#8211; around 300 in each.
These things are a usability nightmare:

The user has to ctrl-click to select multiple options (&#8216;where&#8217;s the central key?&#8217;)
A stray click will unselect everything already selected (Critically important on a site sign-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toawema goes live!</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/11/04/toawema-goes-live/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/11/04/toawema-goes-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just put the finishing touches on Toawema, a brand new prize draw website!
We used Codeigniter, with JQuery for the UI.
Using Codeigniter was a dream. It&#8217;s well known for its speed and lightweight footprint, but there are at least three other advantages that really sold it to me.
Firstly, there&#8217;s a huge amount of flexibility compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joomla! music component released</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/10/21/joomla-music-component-released/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/10/21/joomla-music-component-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Joomla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content management systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seeqpod]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just written a new component for Joomla! 1.5 and above that allows you to add music search functionality, and music recommendations to your site.
There are two options:

Allow users to search for MP3s online
Take a song &#38; artist from a user and recommend other songs they might like

You can download it here (halfway done the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Chrome: First impressions</title>
		<link>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/09/02/google-chrome-first-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://johnmccollum.co.uk/2008/09/02/google-chrome-first-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Chrome]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnmccollum.co.uk/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I didn&#8217;t see this one coming yesterday.
Google continued their assault on Microsoft by launching their new browser, Chrome, today &#8211; 24 hours after announcing it! 
I&#8217;ve just installed it, and first impressions are that it will be a serious contender in the browser market &#8211; as you would expect.
Installation was fast and easy, taking all [...]]]></description>
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