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The reglib is now published to Google Code and available under the MIT license. Project Home: http://code.google.com/p/reglib/ Download: http://reglib.googlecode.com/files/reg1.0.js The backstory - Almost a year ago1 I made all kinds of big talk about releasing a JavaScript lib I was developing for sun.com.

By now, most developers have (or should have) come to realize how important it is to build unobtrusive JavaScript code. Apart from ensuring a better user experience, today’s tools and libraries make it extremely easier to embrace this practice.

I love new technology. Since I always wanted to try out Sinatra, my Unobtrusive JavaScript presentation on our retreat seemed like a perfect fit. Wouldn’t it be nice to not use Keynote for this? Why not just present it in the browser? Some hours later, I came up with a little presentation app.

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Though it may not yet have affected the value of 30 seconds of Super Bowl advertising, PR insider Scott argues that understanding the growing irrelevance of marketing’s “old rules” is vital to thriving in the new media jungle.

The document, entitled Foreign Travel Threat Assessment: Electronic Communications Vulnerabilities was posted to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Friday. It gives advice to corporate and government travelers on how to stop data falling into criminal or foreign-government hands.

This is the first of a few articles covering the total rewrite of the HomeMarks.com code base as I upgrade it to Rails 2.1. The "AJAX Head" pattern is the moniker I have assigned to methodology that has come about during said rewrite and the design decisions I choose early on. The rules were simple...

An unobtrusive badge for Google Reader’s shared items May 21st, 2008 I am a user of Google Reader to get through the vast amounts of RSS feeds I subscribed to. I think it is safe to say that reading RSS and twittering has replaced most of my web surfing.

I've been talking about progressive enhancement here before and got a lot of flak in comments about it. It seemed that there was a general misunderstanding of progressive enhancement and unobtrusive scripting as a "passing fad" or "backward facing rather than being innovative".

Some great tips from Simon Willison on using JQuery effectively.

Chad at 2tbsp.com wrote up a nice tutorial last week outlining some practical fundamentals with respect to writing "unobtrusive JavaScript." His example implements a standard rollover, beginning with bad-old-days obtrusive scripting, migrating to unobtrusive scripting, and concluding with an