For those that have been following the news regarding OpenSource Release Feed you will know that I have finally decided that the best way to make this concept work is with a Twitter like stream and have set-up OpenSource Release Feed on StatusNet. One of the things I have not enjoyed is having to open a new tab, navigate to a new site just to shorten the URL I wish to include with my dent. I have been using Bit.ly …

In my previous article I looked at interacting with the keyboard using JavaScript to detect key masks and combinations of key masks and normal keys. In that article I also attached the keyup event to a specific DOM element. In this article I will look at creating what is known as a special jQuery event and then attach that event to our entire document as apposed to a single DOM element.

Of course you are still able to attach this special …

A couple of days ago I read an article by David Walsh where he used keyboard interaction to save a form’s contents in the background with MooTools. I have read a bunch of his articles, and I am a big fan, and have always thought I want to emulate one of his articles using jQuery. Until now, he has beat me to the post.

This time however, I seem to have a longer window ;) With that I set forth to …