Have you noticed the new traversal method in jQuery 1.3+ named “closest?” I hadn’t until a few days ago when it came in pretty handy when I was working on some client side error handling using the jquery.validate plugin. So what does closest do? From the jQuery docs: “Get a set of elements containi... [More]

I have been learning how to use Git for the past couple of days via the book Pragmatic Version Control Using Git. For the project I am using it on, I wanted to create a .gitignore file that excluded certain files and directories from my repository. I first tried to create a .gitignore.txt file and t... [More]