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Amplify.js -- simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified [Javascript] API for various data sources. Amplify's store component handles persistent client-side storage, using standards like localStorage and sessionStorage, but falling back on non-standard implementations for older browsers. Amplify's request adds some additional features to jQuery's ajax method while abstracting away the underlying data source. Artificial Empathy...

Common XBee mistakes - What's new in O'Reilly Answers: How to approach data analysis, remove autocomplete from the Mail app, and much more.

When it's late at night and you just can't get your ZigBee network working, more than likely a simple solution is waiting in the wings. Here are some tips for resolving issues typically encountered when working with XBee ZB (Series 2) radios and Arduino systems. Read more.

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Solderless breadboards and XBee breakout boards provide an easy way to link your Arduino board to an XBee. While the XBee has many pins, it takes only four of them to create a working connection so that your Arduino can communicate wirelessly, using its built-in serial communications protocol. Read more.

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jquery, checkboxes within nested div onclick show/hide submit

I have a page that has a series of div's in a shopping-cart system. Each is a product, when checking the checkbox, if there are options available and/or an acknowledge checkbox to be acknowledged before form submit, then keep the button hidden and show a div with another checkbox in it, when that checkbox if exists is checked then show button. The show hide on each div is working properly (exi...

jQuery RC 1 is out, final release by end of Jan

jQuery 1.5 moves closer to release. Today, the latest build is now a Release Candidate.

The final jQuery 1.5 is coming soon, but you can download the beta today!

The new jQuery 1.5 is coming very soon. If you want to try out the code you can download is now using the new beta. This release is a big deal!

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Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.

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Rob Orsini is the author of the Rails Cookbook (O'Reilly). He's also the founder and CEO of Tuple Shop, Inc., a web software consulting company specializing in Rails and Python development.

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