Hey guys, As many of you already know, I have been working on jQuery in Action, a book on jQuery for Manning Publishers. Almost the entire book is available on MEAP (Manning Early Access Program), and it’s going to be published in December of this year. The book itself is pretty awesome. It tries to … Continue reading
Those of you who have been around for a while know that in September of last year I published the first issue of the Visual jQuery Magazine. In October, the magazine was also released in French. The mag had interviews with important jQuery community members (like creator John Resig, plugin editor Dave Cardwell, etc.), articles … Continue reading
Update: I have completely refactored jcheat and added substantial new functionality, including a ton of filters that can be used in any combination. Do a gem update and run jcheat -h for full usage details. I released a new tool, jquery-cheat, that allows you to get information about the jQuery API directly from the command-line. … 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
In addition to jQuery’s great Mailing List and Documentation, there’s another place where users can seek help about jQuery problems: We have a very active jQuery IRC channel. Even though it’s never really been publicly announced, the channel currently averages over 50 simultaneous users, including some friendly jQuery bots! Hosted on irc.freenode.net, #jquery always has … Continue reading
The first issue of the brand-new Visual jQuery magazine has been released. It is available for download in PDF format. The purpose of the Visual jQuery Magazine is to provide information about jQuery for beginners and advanced developers, interviews with interesting members of the jQuery community, and details on how to maximize your use of … Continue reading
jQuery 1.0 solidified a lot of the framework, but it also introduced some neat structural changes. First up, the framework now builds via make files, so anybody can check out jQuery from subversion and compile either the packed or unpacked jquery.js for use in their website. Second of all, jQuery now includes built-in testing, and … Continue reading
There have been a whole bunch of posts on this blog about the differences in code size between jQuery and Prototype. The basic premise of those posts (which I agree with) is that because of the way jQuery code is structured, all sorts of typical Javascript design patterns are rendered shorter and simpler in the … Continue reading