This Week in jQuery, vol. 3

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Another week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web.

Plugins

• Jörn Zaefferer’s wildly popular Validation plugin just got updated to version 1.5.2, which includes a slick demo of the plugin’s integration with jQuery UI Tabs.
• DataTables: uses “progressive enhancement” to convert a static HTML table into a much more dynamic data table.
• UI.Layout: allows you to “create any UI look you want – from simple headers or sidebars, to a complex application with toolbars, menus, help-panels, status bars, sub-forms.” While not a part of the jQuery UI project, you can combine it with jQuery UI widgets “to create a sophisticated application.”

Tutorials and Blog Entries

• Brandon Aaron wrote an informative article about jQuery’s Special Events.
• Marc Grabanski posted his first in a series of tutorials on jQuery and Google Maps.
• Steve Reynolds pointed to a handful of jQuery plugins that use Google APIs

A number of tutorials for incorporating jQuery with Microsoft tools have been written recently:

• Consuming REST service using jQuery in WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)
• jQuery live() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback
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  Calling jQuery directly from Silverlight

jQuery Training

The folks at Collective Idea have announced a three-day jQuery training course in Holland, Michigan, May 13-15. I’ll be leading the training.

Fun Experiment

Kelvin Luck has put together a really cool proof of concept using jQuery/JavaScript. He calls it boingPic and describes it as “a simple experiment using javascript and jQuery which allows you to make an image of your choice all boingy.”

Find out what has happened this week in jQuery UI