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Screencast #2 – Creating the colour-fader

Posted in 'JavaScript, Screencasts' by James on March 19th, 2009

In this short screencast I will show how to create a “colour-fader” with jQuery, much like the one used on this website (up in the header). It’s not a particularly practical enhancement but I think it’s a pretty cool feature nonetheless. You can download the files created in the screencast here [zip].

If you watched my last screencast I’m sure you’ve noticed the vast difference in sound quality; well, that’s because of my recently acquired Samson mic.

I’m hoping to begin a podcast show soon, although I’m not 100% sure about it. If any of you are interested in possibly co-hosting such a show (even just for one episode) please let me know! If it does happen then the main topics of discussion will be web development, usability, industry news, hopefully with a strong focus on JavaScript.

While I’ve got your attention here’s a few links to keep you distracted:

Screencast #1 – Event Delegation in jQuery

Posted in 'General, JavaScript, Screencasts' by James on January 12th, 2009
Screencast #1 – Event Delegation in jQuery

Last week Nettuts’ editor Jeffrey posted about a new screencast competition. This isn’t my entry – it’s just a test-runner to see if I’m any good at the whole screencast thing. It’s a 30-minute screencast about event delegation in jQuery and in it I explain event bubbling/propagation and then go on to demonstrate how to develop an event delegation plugin for jQuery.

Note: The quality isn’t too great but if you make it full screen it’s much better!

Thanks for watching, if you have any feedback I’d love to hear it! I’m planning on recording my entry for that competition soon, it’ll also be on jQuery although I’m not sure of the exact topic yet…