We've been working on a couple of projects lately in which we wanted their statically positioned sidebars to stick to the top of the page when you scroll down. When the first project came along, I said "... I can do this" right before writing some custom javascript with hard-coded values. When the second project came along, my instinctual hatred for writing the same code over and over again kicked in and I wrote StickyScroll—a surprisingly (to me at least) flexible and compact jQuery plugin to take care of the heavy lifting.
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There's something I really need to get off my chest. The only thing in this world I care less about than your Gowalla check-in is the ridiculous prize that you probably just picked up from your latest Gowalla check-in. Whew. That feels good. Now that that's done, I'll try to keep the hating to a minimum.
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The beloved Javascript library of OrangeCoat and the world, jQuery, won quite the award yesterday by being named the "Open Source Application of the Year" in the .net Magazine Awards 2009. The most impressive part—its competitors were Firefox 3.5 and Wordpress! The roots of Firefox and Wordpress go deep in the open source community, so congratulations, jQuery, on a job well done.
It's always reassuring to know that OrangeCoat uses the right tools.
