jQuery mobile framework provides easily themeable, HTML5-based interface with support for pages transitions, therefore it would be very easy to create simple web presentations that will work on all popular smartphone and desktop platforms.

This tutorial walks you through the creation of a Bible viewer as an example of loading content from XML and dynamically generating pages with jQuery Mobile.

Since jQuery v1.5, it became possible to set timeout on script and JSONP requests. Before that version, timeout was only applied to other types of AJAX requests. Timeout can be very useful as it is the only way to detect the failure of a JSONP request.

When you are working in jQuery with generated HTML fragments that are returned from AJAX, It is interesting to note these cases..

When you have a web page containing a video that will not be played until clicked, you can speedup page loading by applying this quick tip which you may have seen on Facebook.

Continue reading my guest post on AEXT.Net

Lazy Loading Video To Speed Up Your Web Page

This is a simple jQuery tutorial to display Twitter trending stories of your website and their Twitter trackbacks by combining 2 of my jQuery plugins - Popular on Twitter Widget & Twitter Trackbacks Widget.

After creating my latest jQuery plugin bit.ly Button to show off number of bit.ly clicks of your posts in a retweet button, I wrote this guest post on AEXT.net for developers who want to get their hands dirty with jQuery and bit.ly API.

Continue reading : Showing Off bit.ly Clicks of Your Posts With jQuery

Although there are many sites that describe how to get Delicious bookmaking count of some URL. I learned that you can get the save counts of multiple URL's in one request! And since I didn't see that mentioned anywhere -even on Delicious feeds API page- I thought I should do..

As of my ongoing preparation for the 1K tweet :) I was interested to see the 1000th tweet from some friends timeline. And when I didn't find an existing method, I thought I could write few jQuery lines to solve this..

On this post I gonna walk you through the code behind my new widget [A Smarter Related Posts widget for Blogger].

If you just want to install the widget on your blog, go to A Smarter Related Posts widget for Blogger.

To see the widget in action, Scroll down to the end of this post. also hover on links to see relevancy score.

Displaying a related posts is a smart way for keeping your site visitors around. and you may have seen other Related Posts Widgets out there.. but this one will be Easier and Smarter.

* Check Out New Edition
of this widget that is loaded with pretty new features like posts thumbnails and transition effects..

Check features list:

1. Easier : since All of the work is(has to be) done on the client side, You will not need to modify your template at all. widget will read post tags that blogger already display with each post.
2. Smarter : Cause This widget will list the top related 5(or more) posts sorted by relevancy!Top relevant posts are the posts that have more tags in common with the current post.
3. More Optimized: Will only use summary feeds instead of querying default feeds that return full contents!
4. This widget also can work as a recent posts widget when there is no tags to aggregate.
5. Can be also used to get related posts from another blogspot blog. And in that case you don't have to run it on a blogspot!
6. A fixed list of tags can be used to aggregate.
7. It can display loading text or icon until widget is loaded.
8. Related posts list can be styled based on relevancy!
9. You can specify either to load widget on document ready or on window load.
10. Widget will be attached to container specified or it will be placed where you made the JavaScript call.

To see the widget in action, Scroll down to the end of this post. also hover on links to see relevancy tip.

for those who want or can only use JavaScript to convert regular tags list into a Tag-Cloud. jQuery and regular expressions are here to help.
Why Tag-Cloud? It is better looking and more meaningful.

Update:
Since Aug. 25, 2009: blogger now offers a built-in Tag-cloud. So you won't need this code for that job. still, jQuery manipulation is cool :)