There are many problems with the hard coded nature of how a membership provider operate. Once your site depends on a membership provider it's not always easy to switch into using some different method of membership. I mean, it's extremely frustrating telling people that you can't do certain kind of functionality. Unfortunately I don't know of any open source project that satisfies this kind of requirement.

I'm using a lot of jquery these days. One thing that troubled while trying to hunt down a wierd bug was how to find the event listeners for an element. You can read about it here: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/debug-jquery-events-with-listhandlers/ Mentioned in : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/570960/how-to-debug-javascript-jquery-event-bindings-with-firebug-or-similar-tool/571035 As mentioned by http://mankzblog.wordpress.com/ However, it does not list all of the handlers. There is perhaps[...]

I'm playing around with an svg wrapper for jquery. As mentioned in How_HTML_5_Is_Already_Changing_the_Web this kind of programming will become more commonplace in a few years. For now I will contend with the current support for svg for this kind of development. I've tried using an svg layer as a canvas. It works really well in firefox and chrome. There was a gotcha however: I had some problem with setting the size of the canvas after it was loaded (for instance in $(document).ready(...)).

As noted in twitter and on IE blog IE8 has a new “developer tools” that is accessible by the key F12. Also they have included: - console.log - console.info - console.warn - console.error - console.assert as can be seen on msdn. When you’re debugging javascript this is really sweet. If you have seen these methods before, then it might be because you’re developing in firebug. IE8 is looking hot. The inclusion of Developer tools in this release of IE, developing modern javascript is easier. Before thi[...]

I’m writing an app where I have a html-canvas and render items on that canvas. The problem I ran into was that if I added a context menu to both the items and the canvas. The problem was that I kept getting the menu for the canvas and not the items. A little debugging in firefox explained why: I only need to prevent event bubbling in order to to bind layers of html. Looking into it further there is a link on Cory’s page to a different context menu with a more approriate api.