Today is Blue Beanie Day, an anniversary where developers change their avatars to wear blue beanies to show their support for web standards. Today is also the day a new web initiative has been launched called "Move the Web Forward", with a simple goal of making it easy for developers to start contributing to the web platform.

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With the release of jQuery 1.7 on November 3rd came two new ways to attach event handlers - `.on()` and `.off()`. Whilst possibly not the most exciting new additions to jQuery's large utility belt, these two additions do unify all types of (good) event handling in jQuery and will help you write tidier and more efficient code in the future.

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Over the last few years there has been one tool that has helped out every web developer more than any other – the browser developer tools. Working in harmony with the web browser, the developer tools allows us to manipulate DOM elements, CSS styles, JavaScript and other useful information from the same window often in real time. Historically developers have used Firefox's Firebug add-on to develop and debug their websites, but more recently each browser has developed its own set of tools and each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Nowadays it seems hard to imagine ever building a website without one of these handy tools, which are normally accessible by either pressing "F12″ in Windows or "Cmd" ⌘, "Option" ⌥ and "I" on the Mac, or by right clicking on the page and selecting “Inspect Element”.

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One of the most interesting parts of working as a web developer comes from making a decision on how to organise code depending on a particular project or problem. There are multiple ways to do the same thing, and there's not necessarily a wrong or a right answer for every situation.

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I thought as a way to kick this blog off I would share this JavaScript pattern with you which I've started using recently. I can't take any credit for this pattern - I discovered it on my Internet travels, so all thanks and kudos go to Elijah Manor on 'Enterprise jQuery'.

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If you're reading this, you've reached the first post of my blog. Depending on whether I've written a few or many blog posts at this point, this may be an achievement that you've reached this post, or it may have been a simple slide of the finger. Regardless - congratulations, here is your prize.

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