The book has arrived!

After many many months of hard work, my book has finally arrived!

Comment · Posted: December 14th, 2006

Helping you understand jQuery

Some recent articles have discussed the need for having “really good” tutorials for JavaScript libraries.
As always, we’re working to make the jQuery documentation better and more useful, so I want to pose the following question: What are some tutorials that would help you better use or learn jQuery? Make sure it’s something simple (like “Building […]

Comment · Posted: December 13th, 2006

jQuery 1.0.4

Another fantastic release of jQuery is ready for your consumption. This release includes a number of bug fixes (as usual) along with some much-needed improvements to jQuery’s Ajax functionality.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns with new release, please feel free to discuss it on the jQuery Mailing List. If you think you’ve […]

Comment · Posted: December 12th, 2006

Dev House Boston

So I’m really excited about this upcoming event, here in Boston. I’ve been helping to plan it, along with Patrick, Shimon, and Brian. It’s a day-long code-a-thon for any interested hackers called Dev House Boston. Free food and drinks will be provided along with plenty of Internet and places to work – much of it […]

Comment · Posted: December 3rd, 2006

Expandable Sidebar Menu Screencast

This is the first (of hopefully many) screencasts that will provide a quick tutorial to a simple demo of jQuery in action. I plan on doing at least 2-3 more based upon the talks that I’ve given lately – hopefully I can trickle those out over the next week(s) or so. (Oh, and sorry if […]

Comment · Posted: November 14th, 2006

XHTML, document.write, and Adsense

After some recent discussion concerning the use of document.write() in XHTML documents served with the doctype “application/xhtml+xml” I decided to revisit the problem. An issue with the solutions proposed by Sam and Ajaxian is that they aren’t really solutions – just a lot of hand waving (not that that’s bad, it’s just that the problem […]

Comment · Posted: November 12th, 2006

jQuery Button Contest Winners

The votes are in! Here are the winners of the jQuery Button Contest:
The Winners

First Place Prize (93 votes): Two Books – Ajax Design Patterns and John Resig’s upcoming Pro JavaScript Techniques
Ned Collyer, Australia: HTML: (Copy this into your web site to use this button)
Second Place Prize (83 votes): One Book – Foundations of Ajax
Cyril […]

Comment · Posted: November 7th, 2006

Vote for the jQuery Button

Voting is now closed! Thanks, everyone, for your input! The results can be found here: jQuery Button Contest Winners.
The next round of the jQuery Button Contest is upon us! After some careful deliberation, the judges have narrowed the playing field of 123 jQuery button submissions down to just 30. We were completely overwhelmed with both […]

Comment · Posted: November 6th, 2006