SF jQuery Meetup and Ajax Experience West Ajax Experience West 2007 The good folks over at Ajaxian and TechTarget have put together a great conference, July 25-27. Speakers are varied, talking about the latest and greatest from the world of rich web development. See the full list of speakers and schedule. Speakers include Brendan Eich, … Continue reading →

This is a quick bug fix release for jQuery 1.1.3. About six major issues popped up after the 1.1.3 release that we deemed important enough to resolve immediately, with a follow-up release. The full list of resolved issues can be found on the bug tracker. If you haven’t already upgraded to 1.1.3, please just upgrade … Continue reading →

There is a good article about client-side form validation on the Interaction Design Blog. It describes important points to keep in mind when building your own framework for client-side validation. Of course the alternative to building your own framework is to use an existing one. This approach yields some important advantages, amonst them the “given … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce the release of jQuery 1.1.3. After many months of testing, developing, and more testing, we have a very solid release available for download. It comes with roughly 80+ fixed bugs and a handful of enhancements for good measure. Highlights include: Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2. … 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 →

One of the great aspects of jQuery is its extensibility, as evidenced by the many excellent plugins that have been developed for it. The jQuery team, and the Web team in particular, have been working hard behind the scenes to put together a repository to showcase these plugins. The new repository comes with a few … Continue reading →

Bertrand Gugger Last night, Bertrand Gugger, an active member of the jQuery community (toggg on #jquery) and frequent contributor of French jQuery articles and translations, passed away. He was an active contributor to a number of Open Source projects (English) including PEAR PHP and SPIP (a PHP-based CMS). His generosity, caring, and humor will be … Continue reading →

NOTE The venue for this event has changed! We’re now meeting at the Best Western Bergère Opéra, please change your plans accordingly. When: Sunday, June 24, 2007 – 10:30 AM Where: Best Western Bergère Opéra 32, Rue Bergère Paris, ÃŽle-de-France 75009 (Google Maps Directions) About: This is a meet up for those that use and … 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 →

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 →