I do a lot of writing. I write about web development and I write about nonsense (usually more of the latter than the former) and I sometimes forget where I wrote about what and for whom.

I have decided to trawl the web and track down the articles and tutorials I have written and create a post here on LukeDingle.com with a summary and link off to the site where the work resides. It will also give me an opportunity to write follow-ups or go into further detail about the subjects in question.

You will see these posts appearing under the category Writing For Others. I will change the publish date to the date it was published for real so it doesn’t look like I’m dressing mutton as lamb.

I think it’s a good idea to bring everything together and expand on previously published works.

I would be interested to hear your opinion on this idea.

A couple of days ago I explained how I added controls to a table that when clicked, moved a table row (TR element), up and down within a table.

You can take a look at the solution for that problem by reading “Sortable table rows with jQuery“.

As so often happens with the code I write, I saw an opportunity to tweak and refine it. I was prompted to make these changes when a colleague complained that one should be able to drag and drop the rows within the table.

Again I found that the problem wasn’t so hard to solve as I first imagined. Read on and I will show how I achieved it.
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I was working on a web application today and found myself needing to do something I haven’t needed to do previously. It has probably been explained far better elsewhere and is more than likely a common task for most people but for me it was something new. I’ve done so much on the web and it’s always good to be reminded that there is plenty I haven’t touched yet.

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