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Why didn't I know this? For so many years I've bemoaned the fact that SQL Server doesn't have MySQL's CREATE TABLE LIKE sta...

Non-coding post today. If you use Google Apps for your Domain, you've either been transitioned to the new "full" infrastructur...

Just briefly, folks, I'm writing to announcing the alpha release of my place5 jQuery plugin. It's just a dead-simple plugin that em...

JavaScript's Array#concat function is handy and cool, but it creates a copy of both arrays. That is, given array a and array b , a.co...

jQuery 1.6's change to the attr function, and introduction of the prop function, raised quite a bit of confusion (and awareness) abou...

jQuery 1.6 is out, and unusually for jQuery, there's a pretty big API compatibility break with regard to the attr function . Details i...

Most of us, much of the time, react to "You're wrong" with "No I'm not! And you can't tell me otherwise!" An...