After a Christmas break hiatus, we’re back with a quick episode on jQuery and then tales of Charles getting his debit card account hacked.
I start asking Charles if jQuery is a, sort of, JDOM like way of manipulating web pages. Charles then explains the declarative (to me, XPath-like) syntax of jQuery’s selectors. Once you select the “bag of nodes” from your web page with jQuery, you can then execute code over each of those nodes. Sort of like the inverse of using a foreach loop over a collection of items. Instead, as Charles explains, there’s this big old jQuery JavaScript object that you graft new JavaScript methods (or “extensions”) onto.
As we joke about, this way of coding is sure to drive OO-purists crazy. Also, we clarify the origins of the Subzero/Sub-zero character from The Running Man to Mortal Combat.
Charles then tells us about his recent Christmas vacation and the bummer of having someone hijack his debit card. Thankfully, Silva and he have gotten new credit cards now to stave off the annoyance of getting your checking account directly hacked.
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