Ryan Dunphey has just released a brand new jQuery Dashboard Widget that you can use to browse the jQuery API, even when you’re not connected to the Internet. You can download the, sharply designed, widget from jQuery SVN. If you’re interested in doing some dashboard development (and especially widget development using jQuery), you can learn … Continue reading →

The jQuery services are mostly back to normal now, John has since moved the jQuery SVN to Google Code and is working to move the remaining mailing lists to Google Groups. So, the most important parts have weathered the recent server move, no problem. Of course, moving providers when a dedicated server is required usually … Continue reading →

A test build of the upcoming 1.1.3 release is ready for everyone to try. We need to be super-sure that there haven’t been any regressions in this release, and in order to do that we’d like you to download this alpha release and try it in place of jQuery 1.1.2 (wherever you may be using … Continue reading →

I’m happy to announce that my proposal for a Birds of a Feather session about “jQuery on Rails” at RailsConf has been accepted! If you’re at RailsConf, please come by room c125 on Thursday night at 9:30pm and join in the discussion. I’ll be chatting about my ongoing work on jQuery on Rails, and should … Continue reading →

With a little bit of nice theming, the Fisheye component from Interface has been adapted to build a beautiful “CSS dock menu”. It’s currently making all the rounds on design blogs and on Digg. Some more information about what this menu was designed for can be found on the developer’s site: If you are a … Continue reading →

This week Jonathan Chaffer and I finished the book’s first draft and sent the last chapter to the publisher, so I thought I’d take this opportunity before the revisions start rolling in to provide some more details. The book’s full title is Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques. As … Continue reading →

Two new improvements have just gone into place to help improve the quality of the jQuery site. The jQuery Mailing List is now hosted with Google Groups. This move is going to help provide huge increases in the overall speed, and quality, of the jQuery mailing list. At the time of the move we were … Continue reading →

For those of you who have been following the jQuery blog the past couple months, you may have noticed John Resig’s mention of a secret: “There’s a jQuery book in the works!” Well, I am thrilled to be able to leak a little more information about that secret. For the past few months my friend … Continue reading →

Right now the annual SXSWi conference is happening in beautiful, sunny, Austin, Texas. Interestingly enough, there’s a ton of jQuery users here (as am I). I’ve already had the opportunity to talk with a number of you, but we should really do a proper get together. As proposed by Luke Lutman, on the mailing list, … Continue reading →

Translations: Italiano, français The release of jQuery 1.1.2 is upon us! This is a another bug fix release. We’ve fixed a number of outstanding issues. The fixes have been tested well, so there shouldn’t be any regressions (knock on wood). The most noticeable issue that was resolved was related to animation flickers when doing a … Continue reading →