Everytime that I work on a new project, I’m always unsure about which way to execute javascript on page load.

JavascriptKata was created in the blog bubble. In a time when all you had to do was to create a blog, put ads on it and you were rich. It never was true. The ads on this blog gave me about 100$ in a year so I finally felt discouraged and left it for dead. [...]

Someone asked me : “I would like this site to automatically load a certain page (1-31) depending on what day of the month it is (1-31)”

I’m a big fan of jQuery. This librarie is just the best and simplest one around. I really noticed it when I wanted to get rid of jQuery in TimmyOnTime and try to use prototype.js instead, just to be more “rails-oriented” (that’s a pretty lame excuse don’t you think?)
Why I didn’t like prototype.js
There was not [...]

Since the beginning of the new year, I’m offering to javascripters the echo chamber. What is it? It’s a category where I will post news about what happens in the javascript world. I will try to avoid ajax related news because Ajaxian already does the job really well.
You can subscribe to the RSS feed with [...]

From time to time, I receive emails from desperate people who want help with their javascript problem. I also receive a lot of emails of people wanting to help me with my “manly problems”. It’s very nice from them to care about me and I take time to reply to each of them but I [...]

If you are javascripter, chances are that you must work with some back-end languages like ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Ruby On Rails or PHP. If you work with a back-end language, chances are that you become frustrated against it sometimes. That’s why I created I hate PHP.
What is it?
I hate PHP helps you to evacuate your [...]

Like most of you already knew, I’m working with Frank Lamontagne of Ruby Fleebie on a project called TimmyOnTime. We had the chance to present it at the last Barcamp Montreal and it went… really bad! If you want to know more about the whole adventure (and have a good laugh), click here to read [...]

There was a buzz around Firebug a couple of months ago. A lot of developers installed it and enjoy every second they use it. There are some others that missed the train and are still using alerts to debug. If you’re from that second category, here’s your chance to get back on tracks.
1. The console

The [...]

I received two questions about librairies in the Ask Dan a javascript question serie. Don’t forget to ask me your questions too by sending a mail at dan@javascriptkata.com.
Effects
Camilou asked
Is it too hard to a poor mortal like me to achieve that fancy effects that some libraries like Prototype do offer? I mean, that drag-and-drop stuff [...]