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Who Am I?

I'm a passionate 24 year old Irish Web Designer & Developer and (currently) a Project Manager who loves creating exciting new user interfaces and writing about topics that can help other web designers out there at the moment. Although I've been approached by Facebook, Microsoft and Google over the years, I enjoy working in smaller companies. If you're interested in speaking to me about contract work, please leave me a note on the site and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

How Can I Become A Better Developer?

If you've come here (or any dev blog) hoping to learn a few tips and tricks, you're already well on your way to becoming a better developer.Expanding your knowledge through reading books, blogs and trial-and-error coding are some great steps to improving your knowledge. If you would like to read more on this topic, see my article called '10 Professional Tips For Designers and Developers' here.

jQuery Vs. JavaScript – The Masters Share Their Views On Vanilla JS

We’ve got a really great post for you today guys. We’re going to explore whether it’s fundamentally important for designers and developers to understand how to use vanilla JavaScript and not just it’s derivative frameworks and libraries such as jQuery and MooTools. You might be asking ‘why?’, but read on and you’ll find out!. Because this is a topic that can invoke passion on both sides of the debate, I’ve asked a few familiar names to join the discussion including David Walsh, Chris Coyier, Marco Kupier, Janko Javanovic and James Padolsey. All of these authors use jQuery regularly and are in a good position to advise on the pros and cons of knowing vanilla JS.
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22 Excellent Examples of Advanced jQuery UI's in action

jQuery is one of the most widely adopted javascript frameworks in the wild with millions of developers around the World using it daily in their projects. As a result of it’s growth, developers have been able to let their imagination run wild when it comes to designing exciting new interfaces that are both rich, exciting and intuitive.

In this post I’m going to share the top 22 pages using jQuery that I felt deserved a mention – you’ll everything from fun but humble new ways to offer your users a Captcha to a completely javascript based Robot animation. Heard about the Google API but haven’t had the chance to play around with it yet?

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