Learning jQuery Book Details
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 [...]
Google Groups and Amazon S3
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 sending out, [...]
jQuery Book Coming Soon
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 Jonathan [...]
SXSWi jQuery Meetup
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, and [...]
jQuery 1.1.2
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 slideDown. It [...]
jQuery is OpenAjax Compliant
A new initiative has been forming, over the recent months, in an attempt to standardize the different Ajax and JavaScript codebases that exist. A number of corporate entities have come together to draft the new OpenAjax standard (including IBM, Adobe, Opera, and Mozilla). Today we’re announcing a new plugin that you can use to make jQuery [...]
jQuery and Jack Slocum?s Ext
Today, we?re proud to announce that the jQuery Project and Jack Slocum?s Ext Project, have partnered to integrate the amazingly lightweight and powerful jQuery framework with Ext?s awesome UI library. This collaboration will greatly enhance the capabilities of both projects and expand the functionality available to developers using the jQuery JavaScript Library and the Ext [...]
The jQuery IRC Channel
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 [...]
jQuery Nightly Builds
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth by certain members of the discussion mailing list (read: me), we now have automated nightly builds of jQuery ready for mass consumption. These builds came about at the request of we community members who would like to experiment with the most recent features of jQuery on our projects, [...]
New jQuery Project Team Members
The jQuery team would like to welcome our newest team members, Yehuda Katz, Nate Cavanaugh, & Klaus Hartl. These three developers have made invaluable contributions to the jQuery projects in terms of time, knowledge and commitment to the community. Yehuda is a developer living in New York City who maintains the web site Visual [...]