jQuery Google gMap Plugin

I think with the growing trend and movement towards geolocation based services, like on Twitter, and Foursquare google maps applications are going to need to be geolocation specific. What this means is that there may need to be some rewriting of some older maps or it could just be a chance to refactor and upgrade, at what would seem an ideal time considering some of the utilities and libraries available.

Now when you are looking for a plugin or functionality from a library your needs have grown or may be more specific. For example having the ability to dynamically populate and remove custom markers, or even for performing transitions on the map. Continue reading

jQuery Uniform plugin

With the advent of CSS3, HTML 5 and the power of the ever-growing jQuery the internet is turning out to be a more interesting place. Previously you were given fairly limited access to input form elements in terms of how you could style them. Of course you could always access the css style attributes, however, if you wanted to add a background images, or add some advanced look and feel without loads of code and hacking it was almost impossible.

To add to that the headache of even considering how long this would take to test cross-browser may not even be worth the effort in the end. But at least that has changed with a bit of extra magic. Continue reading