The jQuery Conference in Boston is fast approaching and we are officially sold out.  Thank you so much for your support it’s going to be a great event.  For those that are coming there is some venue information on the Events home page if you are still looking for a cheaper hotel or if your driving to the venue, there is some parking information you’ll need to be aware of.

Sponsors
We are still looking for last minute sponsors.  Last minute sponsors are our favorite sponsors!

Why sponsor?  The jQuery Conference is supported by our generous Sponsors and Donors, without whom things would be very different. The jQuery Conference is a great way to get your message out to 500+ highly qualified influential technology decision makers; if you or your company are interested, download our prospectus for more information. We are willing to talk with you about a package that would work for you.  Contact information can be found on the prospectus.

Training Class Seats Still Available
I did want to remind everyone about our training class we are holding before the conference. We still have openings for the training class and it is separate from the conference.

In San Francisco, the training class was ran by appendTo and it was a great success.  In Boston, the class will be run by Bocoup, a Boston JavaScript Company.  Here are some of the details about the class.

• Full cost: $299 (All proceeds go directly to the jQuery Foundation)
• Friday October 15th, 2010
• 1 Day before jQuery Conference Boston 2010
• 9am to 6pm with a break for lunch
• Register on the events site

About the class
Over the course of this one day class the group will build an exciting web application using jQuery. This class will teach you what jQuery does and how to use it responsibly in your websites. Intended for web development beginners.

Trainers
Let me introduce you to the trainers.

From left to right: Boaz Sender, Pete Karl, Rick Waldron and Ben Alman

Agenda

• What is jQuery?
• What is the DOM?
• jQuery and Selectors
• jQuery and Methods
• Get stuff do something: DOM traversal and manipulation
• jQuery and Events
• jQuery and AJAX
• jQuery and Effects
• Using plugins
• jQuery UI and the widget factory
• Debugging techniques with jQuery

Advanced classes
Bocoup does offer more advance classes around the same time as the conference.  Check out their site for more details. (18% of the proceeds go directly to the jQuery Foundation)

• 3 Day Advanced jQuery Training
• 2 Day jQuery Hack Class

The jQuery Team would like to thank Bocoup for their donation of the one day training class and the proceeds for the other classes.

I’d like to announce the confirmed speakers for the jQuery Conference 2010: Boston.

Speaker name and their accepted talk title:

• Chad Pytel –  Mobile Web Applications with jQuery

• Mike Taylor –  Is these a bug?, or how to contribute to the jQuery project through  better bug reporting.

• Garann Means –  Using templates to achieve awesomer architecture

• Chris Bannon – Theming jQuery UI like an Aristocrat

• Alex Sexton –  jQuery’s Best Friends

• Dave Artz –  jQuery in the [AOL] Enterprise

• Yehuda Katz – Moving to jQuery

• Doug Neiner –  Contextual jQuery

• Scott González – Building Extensible Widgets

• Mike Hostetler – jQuery(‘#knowledge’).appendTo(‘#you’); [Introduction to jQuery]

• Karl Swedberg – jQuery Effects: Beyond the Basics

• Jonathan Sharp –  App in a Browser

• Rey Bango & Ralph Whitbeck – Getting involved!

• Paul Irish – Inaugural State of HTML5

• John “unscriptable”  Hann & Brian Cavalier – OOCSS for JavaScript Pirates

• Brian Moschel – A Crash Course in JavaScript Application  Testing with FuncUnit

• Rebecca Murphey –  Beyond the DOM: Functionality-Focused Code Organization

• Thomas Reynolds –  Organizing Code with JavascriptMVC 3

• Boaz Sender –  Exploding the internet with jQuery and CouchDB

• Ben Vinegar –  Building Distributed JavaScript Widgets with jQuery

• Menno van Slooten – Rapid testing, rapid development –  Increase your development speed by reducing your feedback loops

• Brian Crescimanno – jQueryUI and HTML5 Video Play Nice

• Paul Elliott –  TDD Your jQuery Plugin

• Elijah Manor – Introduction to jQuery UI

Update Just confirmed:

• Matt Kelly – Super Awesome Interactions with jQuery

As always the keynotes for the conference will be given by:

• Richard D. Worth – jQuery UI
• John Resig – jQuery Core & jQuery Mobile

We’ll be updating the events site soon with speaker bios, talk abstracts and the schedule for Saturday, October 16th and Sunday, October 17th.  So look for that soon.

Again, you can register for the conference at http://events.jquery.org/2010/boston/register/

Don’t forget that we are also again offering a full day of training to jump start your jQuery skills at the Bocoup Loft.  You can register for the training class on the same page as the conference registration (just scroll down).

Hope to see you there!