I'm of the opinion that you probably usually do need jQuery (I explain why many times in my latest course on it).

But I'm also of the opinion that reference guides like this a super cool and useful for those of us who came into the world of JavaScript through jQuery. I'll probably reference this thing a zillion times.

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You Might Not Need jQuery is a post from CSS-Tricks

If you need to change the styles of some elements using jQuery, you might use .css(), but that applies inline styles and we generally don't like that. You could add/remove/change a class name to control the style, which is better, but then still only works on matching elements that are currently in the DOM.

This neat mini jQuery plugin by Danny Povolotski actually injects real CSS on the page so all (even future) matching elements get that style. Kinda like event delegation for styles.

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veinjs is a post from CSS-Tricks

American Studies Assistant Professor Nicole King and Folklorist in Residence Michelle Stefano are starting a series of essays for the “City Folk” section of City Paper. They will be writing about interesting people they encounter during their travels around Baltimore.

The first essay in the series titled “Different Presence” was published on January 29. King and Stefano write about Robert Williams, who stands on the corner of Hollins Street and South Arlington Avenue and runs “New Day” gallery which houses a collection of African masks, sculptures and other collectibles. The essay looks at William’s motivation for running the gallery and examines his impact on the neighborhood and community. It also looks ahead to his future plans:

[Williams] is in the early stages of planning the African World Museum and Gallery, which would provide the space to delve deeper into the cultures and histories represented within his collection. While he currently lacks the funding, he certainly has the objects, the knowledge, and the trust of many in the community. He even has a space in mind: the old Steadman Station firehouse at East Read and North Calvert. With 14 years on the corner seeing the street life of Hollins Market, Williams is ready to come inside.

You can read the full essay in City Paper here.

How the wunderkind of cloud storage deals with government snooping and recruits more geeks.

Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devices (see “Hiding All the Complexities of Remote File Storage Behind a Small Blue Box”), recently got $250 million in new funding, giving it a $10 billion valuation.