I’ve written a series of short posts for Peachpit Press’ Web site under the title Five JavaScript Tips in Five Days. The first two have been posted:

• Handling JSON Data Securely
• Debugging XML/JSON Requests

The other three, on choosing a JavaScript framework, performing cross-domain Ajax requests, and loading JavaScript faster, will hopefully be put online soon.

Sometime ago I was asked by someone in the forums if I could assist in setting up SSL on Mac OS X Leopard to enable HTTPS connections. The good news is that after a huge delay, I was able to get this to work, without that much effort. The bad news is that I accomplished this over two different attempts, so my notes may not be foolproof. And, um, I’ve already slightly reconfigured my Apache, so that might come into play. Anyway…

So follow these instructions to make this work. If you have any questions or problems, you can post a comment at the end of this article. In order to pull this off, you will need an administrative password for your computer, a text editor, and the Terminal application. If the Terminal scares you, you probably shouldn’t do this.

. In this post, I go into the effects you can apply to add dynamic behavior to an HTML page. Note that I’m discussing just the out-of-the-box effects built into jQuery. A subsequent post will discuss some of the plug-ins that can be brought into a page.

In this edition…

• About This Newsletter
• On the Blog => An Introduction to jQuery
• On the Web => Building RIA’s with the Adobe Flash Platform
• Q&A => How do I make a Web site easily administratable?
• Q&A => How can I generate static HTML-pages from database content?
• Q&A => How do I prevent spam form submissions?
• Q&A => What should I learn next?
• Q&A => The Ruby vs PHP Debate
• Q&A => How can I convince clients to actually follow through with their deliverable commitments in a timely fashion (without nagging them to death)?
• What is Larry Thinking? => Getting Things Done
• Book Giveaway
• My Book News

About this Newsletter

So nothing huge here, just some thoughts I had, answers to a few of your questions, and whatever other random things came up in the past month. As always, thanks for reading and please do let me know what comments and questions you have! (As an adendum, the way things work for me, this got to be way longer than I had intended, but I answered a lot of questions that had been sitting in my inbox for some time.)

I recently came acrossed this article discussing 50+ amazing jQuery examples and thought I’d share it. I’ve already written two posts on jQuery and have more to write (hopefully soon), but I think that seeing something in action is often the best way to appreciate it, particularly when it comes to dynamic things like client-side JavaScript. Also, if you just go to the jQuery home page and look at the list of companies using jQuery, you’ll be duly impressed!