With the recent release of jQuery 1.4, I decided to play with it and ended up with a site that can be used to browse pictures submitted to Reddit.com. Obviously inspired by CoolIris, I built it using jQuery 1.4, the jQuery Lightbox and Reflection plugins, JSON2, and JSONRPC. On the server side, data is pulled from Reddit in JSON format and deserialized into PHP objects and arrays. In particular, I only accept items that have thumbnails and have URLs that point to the images themselves. Data is then compressed and cached on the server with XCache for an hour at [...]
Archive for January 2010
Geesh… I haven’t written anything in a while (well anything that isn’t code). And I still don’t have much to say except that a new version of jQuery has been released. jQuery 1.4 is sporting some serious performace enhancements not to mention that their API site has been completely rewritten. I highly suggest checking it out.
