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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.

31 jQuery Snippets That Will Help Make You A JavaScript Pro

Hey guys. Hopefully if you’re reading this you’ve discovered some of the true power jQuery has to offer and you’re now looking for ways to improve your JavaScript skills even further.

There was such a huge response to my last post on jQuery Snippets that I thought it only right to follow up with a fresh list that focuses on some of the more recent features introduced in jQuery 1.4.x. Because it’s always useful to have a second pair of eyes look over your code, I asked Paul Irish from the jQuery Team to take a look at all of today’s snippets and he’s included some useful optimizations to a few of the snippets which I’ve intregated.

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11 Ways to Increase Your jQuery Performance

This post will give you 11 easy steps that are going to instantly improve your jQuery application’s performance. There isn’t anything that difficult in here and almost anyone can apply these methods to their project. If you’ve got a few extra tips you would like to share, please feel free to include them in the comments section. We’d love to hear from you!.