Ran into this today with a WP site I was working on. I didn’t want the default version of jquery that’s included now with wordpress, so I found this handy dandy script so that I could load the latest from google. I just added it to the bottom of my functions.php file:

//forcing jquery to load the version we want
function my_scripts_method() {
    wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
    wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js');
    wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}    

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_scripts_method');

This is definitely a concept I can get behind. Promote JS is trying to get Javascript documentation better indexed by search engines. They are basically telling users to link to, or blog about, JS documentation. Hit up their site and check it out.

So I finally broke down and signed up for Netflix. My roommate has it and his life seemed too good to be true because of this weekly crimson DVD in the mail. My life has now waned to a driveling mess as I fulfill my movie addiction directly from my living room.

That aside, the first problem I realized was that my roommate and my queue’s were constantly crossing over one another. He would have a DVD out I had next in my queue, or vice versa. Or even worse, we’d have two of the same DVD at the same time!

My solution seemed clear and simple: Use the Netflix API to pull in a feed of both of our feeds, and then parse those feeds with jQeury, only to finally compare them and see where our overlapping tastes lie. Thus, the crossing of the streams would end. Hopefully.

I plan to share my findings along the way, so lets jump into part one of my tutorial on jQuery and the Neflix API. Read the rest of this entry »

So we added something pretty cool to the AE website today…

Originally built by Erik Andersson, and modified by our good ol pal Jake, this handy dandy JS snippet lets you blow up any element on the web. You can hit up the original Github page here.