Workin’ Hard

Paul Bakaus (jQuery UI Lead) and I working on
the next release of jQuery UI (1.5) and jQuery Core (1.2.3).

It’s a rare treat, in distributed Open Source development, to be able to work face-to-face with a fellow developer. Paul is located in Germany, I in Boston – and much of the jQuery team is scattered around the globe. He stopped into town for the weekend so that we could make sure that all the necessary code was in jQuery core for the upcoming jQuery UI 1.5 release candidate. We also had a chance to discuss the future of jQuery UI and plan out some of the best resource allocations for the upcoming months.

All that being said, this next release is going to be fantastic. It’s what jQuery UI 1.0 should have been. It’s been rough because of all the constraints on developer time that were in place when we first set out with this project, but it’s been getting better. Paul now works on jQuery UI full-time – and Liferay is putting a ton of resources towards making sure that the future of the library will be successful. It’s really exciting to see this project grow up and start to see some light.

jQuery 1.2.3 should be released within the next couple days (after some more testing) and jQuery UI 1.5rc1 will be announced on the jQuery UI mailing list relatively soon.

Posted: February 3rd, 2008

5 Comments (Show Comments)

1. sylvain (February 3, 2008 at 9:49 am)

   Great news ! Thank you very much for your work !!

2. Bryan Migliorisi (February 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm)

   This is great news! I am glad to hear about the upcoming releases and I cant wait to start playing with the new jQuery UI.

   Keep up the great work guys!

3. m0n5t3r (February 4, 2008 at 3:49 am)

   I seem to remember that i18n was one of the items on the jQuery todo list; I put together a basic gettext implementation for a project I work on and released it yesterday, you may want to take a look at it: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gettext

   on an unrelated note: can you get someone to fix the trac on dev.jquery.com?

4. Ralph (February 4, 2008 at 7:05 pm)

   Oh man what a weekend for him to visit…to actually see the town get their heart broken in two by Eli Manning and the Giants.

   j/k

   Good to see face to face communication/collaboration.

5. Andy (February 6, 2008 at 11:25 am)

   Great news!

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