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jQuery URL Parser v1.0

This jQuery URL Parser is a little plugin that I wrote a while back and have now decided to release properly. It’s based on Steven Levithian’s regex-based URI parser, and allows you to quickly and painlessly access pretty much any bit of information within the URL.

The top 10 things that annoy programmers

Ever look back at some of your old code and grimace in pain? How stupid you were! How could you, who know so much now, have written this?

Default values for HTML checkboxes

Until recently I had never figured out how to set a value, using HTML only, that gets passed to the server when a checkbox is unchecked. Checked sure, but unchecked? This maybe old hat to some but I have finally figured out a way to do it.

Orange France capping 3G speeds

When contacted by FranceInfo, an Orange representative reportedly confirmed that that the carrier has been deliberately limiting speeds for all 3G capable phones on its network to 384Kbps, saying the move was aimed at ‘preserving the stability of the network’.

Seth’s first law of mass media

Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter.