First Impressions: Genesis Theme Framework

Lately I’ve been doing a lot more work with WordPress, and it’s given me the opportunity to work on lots of different themes and theme frameworks. Given the choice I would much rather start a new theme from scratch. Of course “from scratch” means using one of the many starter themes people have put together,…

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JSON vs. XML: What Should You Use?

Lots of people have asked me this question: which is better when loading data via an ajax request? JSON is my favorite. I’m going to try and explain the benefits of JSON over XML.

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Adding Twitter to your site with jQuery Part 2

This series of articles will explain how to retrieve information from Twitter using their API, and ways you can display it on your website in an attractive way. In Part 2 we will add some simple CSS to the tweet to make it look nice, and display all the data the twitter API returns.

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Adding Twitter to your site with jQuery Part 1

This series of articles will explain how to retrieve information from Twitter using their API, and ways you can display it on your website in an attractive way. Part one we will go over the basic of the Twitter API and look at some simple code that will print out a list of tweets.

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Reading XML with jQuery

Welcome to my first of many articles for Think2Loud! Today I thought I’d start with something simple that will lead into several other topics. So here we go, head first into reading XML with jQuery.

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