Here is another jQuery demo of mine which reproduces some typical effects of a TV channel, such as statics, loading, presentation and interactive menu. Feel free to use my code if you like it. This demo makes an extensive use of jQuery's deferred objects for chaining animations. Enjoy!
Object-oriented programming with Wordpress: utopia?
A long debate among Wordpress developers is essentially about the possibility of using truly object-oriented code in their themes and plugins by exploiting the latest features of PHP 5. Most developers who don't are accustomed to OOP in PHP think that OOP in Wordpress is rather difficult to accomplish and, in a certain sense, even counterproductive. But if you take a closer look at the inner structure of the Wordpress core, you'll surely notice the abundance of classes and most of the OOP features we're all used to see in other frameworks. This post is written in the hope of stimulating a renewed interest in OOP with Wordpress.
Inserting jQuery in an application's namespace
The global jQuery's function noConflict() is useful not only to avoid conflicts with other libraries using the $ alias, but also to include jQuery in our application's namespace by storing it in a property. Let's see how.