JQuery 1.3 domination through deprecation

On a project I maintain, we recently rolled up to JQuery 1.3.1 from JQuery 1.2.6. Upon doing so, several things instantly broke.
I started seeing errors on lines like this:
if($(‘input[@name=username]‘).val() != “”)
I decided to check the JQuery 1.3 relase notes to see what had changed.
The first bullet point answered my problem:
The ‘@’ in [@attr] has been [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

I saw  this video on @KurtyD’s blog, http://daradics.com. He said that the video had a transformational effect on him. I’m going to have to agree.

JSON + Coldfusion

Bill Garoutte, just made a great blog post about using JSON with Coldfusion, as a faster and more light weight alternative to using WDDX to serialize data. If you use Coldfusion at all, I highly suggest you read it, and download his code sample.
http://garoutte.com/?p=21

The GmailThis! bookmarklet

I use GMail as my main email client. Often I’m at work and I see something online that I think is useful, and I want to remind myself of it. I have tried righting down URLS on scraps of paper in the past, but sending an email to myself works as a good reminder for [...]

IE DOM : WTF!

I have been working on a help documentation system at work.
There are roughly 50,000 HTML files to deal with (yes 50 thousand).
The html files have a pretty decent structure, but they are by no means XHTML.

I dont have access to a web development language like php, cfm, for asp or this project to insert
the site [...]