Posted August 27th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
Our guest this week is Dave Ward (http://encosia.com), who is the co-host of the Tekpub video series on jQuery, Mastering jQuery. We talk about the Tekpub series as well as caching lengths with the Google CDN and Microsoft CDN amoungst other CDN features. We also learn when you shouldn’t wait for the document to ready to fire off your jQuery code.
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Posted August 24th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
The jQuery Project is very excited to announce the jQuery Conference 2010: Boston on October 16-17, 2010. The conference will be held at the Hilton Boston Logan in Boston, Massachusetts. The best part of this announcement is that Tickets are on sale now!
This venue is the largest that the project has worked with to date (Harvard Law School in ‘07, the MIT Stata Center in ‘08 and Microsoft New England Research Center in ‘09) and we expect to sell out very quickly.
A brief synopsis of some of the content that you’ll be able to expect:
- jQuery
- jQuery Mobile
- jQuery UI
- jQuery Plugins
- Complex Application Development
- jQuery Case Studies
- Plus much more
Speakers currently include jQuery Team Members:
We are still accepting speaker submissions for Boston, so please submit your proposed talk today! Deadlines for submissions is September 6, 2010 at 11:59PM PST.
In addition to two days of jQuery sessions, we’ll once again be offering a full day of jQuery Training prior to the event. The jQuery Training will be offered by Bocoup and will be hosted at the Bocoup Loft. The training will cover the following topics:
- What is jQuery?
- What is the DOM?
- jQuery and Selectors
- jQuery and Methods
- Get stuff do something: DOM traversal and manipulation
- jQuery and Events
- jQuery and AJAX
- jQuery and Effects
- Using plugins
- jQuery UI and the widget factory
- Debugging techniques with jQuery
Tickets for the jQuery Boston Training may be purchased on the Training Events Page.
Check out the jQuery Conference 2010: Boston event site for up-to-date information.
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Posted August 19th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
In our 31st episode, we talk with the team at Filament Group, Todd Parker, Patty Toland and Scott Jehl. Filament Group is a design firm in Boston, MA and both Todd and Scott are members of the jQuery team. We discuss ThemeRoller, which Filament Group created as well as Progressive Enhancement and their new book Designing with Progressive Enhancement. We also discuss the role Filament Group will have in the next couple of months while working on the just announced jQuery Mobile project, the initial designs that have been shared were designed by the Filament Group.
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Posted August 13th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
Mobile web development is an emerging hot topic in the web development community. As such, the jQuery Team has been hard at work on determining the strategy and direction that the jQuery Project will take. Today, we are proud to announce the jQuery Mobile Project. We’ve launched a new site at jquerymobile.com that publicly outlines our strategy, research and UI designs.
As always, we want to hear from you. We’ve created a new Mobile jQuery forum to collect feedback from the community. Please feel free to join in on the discussion and read more in the announcement.
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Posted August 13th, 2010 by Mike Hostetler
After much deliberation, The jQuery Project Operations Team has decided to postpone our planned London event this year. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure a suitable venue that would allow us to provide the type of professional-quality event the community has come to expect within a budget sustainable by the project. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused and are actively working on planning a European event for 2011.
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Posted July 30th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
In our 30th episode, we talk with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks. Chris also works for Wufoo, an online form builder service. Chris talks about his inspiration for writing for CSS-Tricks and we look at his jQuery snippets, freebies and screen casts. We learn what Wufoo is and talk about the new API for Wufoo. Chris shows us the new Wufoo jQuery API Wrapper and we talk about the choice of putting the plugin on the jQuery namespace verses making it its own global object. Finally, we talk about how designers and developers responsibilities are becoming more blurred as it evolves and changes.
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Links from this show…
Plugin of the week
jQuery.Validity
Very light weight Validation plugin for simple forms with simple validation rules. Here’s an example of the jQuery needed to make a couple of fields required and match a specific format.
$("form").validity(function() {
$("#vehicles") // The first input:
.require() // Required:
.match("number") // In the format of a number:
.range(4, 12); // Between 4 and 12 (inclusively):
$("#dob") // The second input:
.require() // Required:
.match("date") // In the format of a date:
.lessThanOrEqualTo(new Date()); // In the past (less than or equal to today):
});
We still feel that Jörn Zafferer’s Validation plugin is the best as it will provide the most robust and customizable solution to your needs but felt that this light weight plugin would work well in smaller forms.
Tutorial of the week
Enterprise jQuery
A site, from appendTo, geared to help corporations that are just now adapting jQuery. It helps them learn how to use jQuery with best practices in mind so that their code is easy to maintain in a team environment. We mention a few articles from the site:
We want to thank MediaTemple for hosting jQuery and the podcast files and we’d like to thank BrandLogic for the podcasting studio.
Follow the show on twitter for up to date information regarding upcoming guests at http://twitter.com/jquerypodcast. Follow Ralph and Rey on Twitter as well.
You can send feedback about this episode or send in questions to podcast@jQuery.com or use the call-in number (804) 4jQuery, (804) 457-8379.
“jQuery Theme” created by Jonathan Neal
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Posted July 20th, 2010 by Paul Irish
We’d like to open up submissions for talks for our conferences in London and Boston.
The dates are currently being firmed up, but currently we’re eyeing these days: London: Sept 13-14 Sept 8-9th or the 22-23rd; Boston: Oct 16-17. Please fill out the form if you’re interested in speaking at either of these events.
We will be sharing more information about these two epic events in the coming weeks.
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Posted July 9th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
Episode 28 – Remy Sharp Part 3 – jQuery for Designers
In our final part with Remy Sharp we talk about his jQuery for Designers site. jQuery for Designers is a tutorial and screencast site which caters to designers and how to use jQuery to add interactive elements to your site. We discuss the difference between a developer and designer and the needs each has. Remy is the organizer of the Full Frontal JavaScript Conference in Brighton, England. Plans are underway to have another conference again this November. Finally, we talk about Snap Bird a site which searches farther back in your twitter timeline then the Twitter API will provide you.
Missed previous episodes? Part 1 – jsbin.com and Part 2 – HTML 5
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Episode 29 – Rey Bomb #3
Rey and Ralph are joined again by Elijah Manor and Doug Neiner and this week we talk about the new JavaScript Tutorial site, Script Junkie. Rey is the editor of the site and both Elijah and Doug have written articles regarding jQuery and jQuery UI for the site.
We also review what is the top priority for the jQuery team right now and that is Mobile jQuery. Ralph gets you up to speed by outlining the problem scope, the research that the team is finding and lay out the current jQuery strategy for mobile.
You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3.
Links from the show:
Script Junkie Articles
Elijah’s articles
- Six Things Every jQuery Developer Should Know
- How to Debug Your jQuery Code
- History and Back Button Support
- Intro to Error Handling in Ajax Apps
- Custom jQuery Events and Selector Filters
- How to Create Your Own jQuery Plugin
- jQuery Test-Driven Development
Doug’s article
- Introduction to Stateful Plugins and the Widget Factory
Mobile jQuery
- yayQuery Episode 18 – John Resig
- tx.js – John Resig talk on mobile – Part 1
- tx.js – John Resig talk on mobile – Part 2
Announcements
Carsonified Online jQuery Conference
Speakers: Rey Bango, John Resig, Karl Swedberg, Ben Alman
July 12, 2010 @ Noon EST
$150 Click for Discount info
O’Rielly Webinar
jQuery mistakes you’re probably making in your project
Speaker: Jonathan Sharp
July 13, 2010 @ 1PM EST
Free w/ Registration
We want to thank MediaTemple for hosting jQuery and the podcast files and we’d like to thank BrandLogic for the podcasting studio.
Follow the show on twitter for up to date information regarding upcoming guests athttp://twitter.com/jquerypodcast. Follow Ralph and Rey on Twitter as well.
You can send feedback about this episode or send in questions to podcast@jQuery.com or use the call-in number (804) 4jQuery, (804) 457-8379.
“jQuery Theme” created by Jonathan Neal
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Posted June 18th, 2010 by Ralph Whitbeck
We again sit down with Remy Sharp in this second of a three part interview. This week we talk with Remy about HTML5 and the future of the spec and how to work with HTML5 today with JavaScript shims.
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Here are the show notes for this episode:
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Posted June 14th, 2010 by ReyBango
On Monday, July 5th, John Resig will be at the Seattle jQuery/JavaScript community meetup at Amazon’s brand new Van Vorst Meeting Center in South Lake Union for an afternoon of learning, openspace, hacking and, of course, pizza!
The fun begins at 1pm with a quick keynote and explanation of open space technology then the group will self organize into smaller sessions run in an open space style until 6pm.
There will be plenty of pizza, refreshments and networking space to meet like minded developers, so come and meet, eat, learn and play with some of the Pacific Northwest’s best front end and interface developers. Topics will be suitable for beginners all the way through to advanced jQuery and JavaScript programmers.
This awesome event is provided for free and but you need to register to get in. Be sure to get your ticket quick.
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