Internet Explorer 8 doesn't support the HTML5 placeholder attribute that we can use to label our text fields. Fortunately, we can emulate this attribute with jQuery. Let's see how.
WordPress: adding social buttons with iframes
JavaScript social buttons are evil. They may cause major hiccups in the overall performance of your sites, not to mention that they may actually block the rendering of your pages. Iframes are better, because they load simple HTML snippets. In this post I'll show you how to add the Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus buttons to your WordPress theme.
jQuery: notification message system
The most stimulating part of my job with jQuery is to turn ideas into code. Today I needed to create a notification system for a web site. A user can fill out a form by specifying if he's writing a project or a task. jQuery collects all the data and populate the corresponding item on a top menu. The most important part is that you can further extend the basic code to work with AJAX. Let's see now our implementation.