Latest Screencasts

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery. Watch this screencast

Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice. Watch this screencast

PeepCode Meet jQuery quickly became our fastest-selling title of all time. In this screencast, we explore the Ajax features of the popular jQuery JavaScript framework. We start simply with the transfer of HTML fragments in only one line of code. You’ll learn about the convenience methods in jQuery and then... Watch this screencast

jQTouch makes programming for mobile browsers fun! Simple HTML, CSS, and jQuery Javascript combine to make it easy to build applications for WebKit-based mobile browsers like the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, and Palm webOS. The framework is sparsely documented, but after watching this 70 minute screencast you’ll have a firm understanding... Watch this screencast

How to use Webrat and Selenium to test the parts of your application that rely on AJAX or some form of Javascript interaction with the user. Watch this screencast

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin. Watch this screencast

Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery. Watch this screencast

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript. Watch this screencast

Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode. Watch this screencast

How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS. Watch this screencast