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Gettin' busy with jQuery

Submitted by Dano on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 21:32

jQuery Book I won in the raffle
Rocking jQuery book I won in the raffle!

Tonight I attended the first Denver Meetup for jQuery enthusiast. It was a great oppourtunity to meet others who are interested in jQuery and discuss a wide range ideas and solutions. There was no surprise that there was a number of Drupal'ers in the crowd, including myself, considering the amount of jQuery is used in Drupal itself.

Great take aways of the meeting are:

  1. jQuery is used on 25% of the websites on the internet
  2. Its growing fast, and has become much larger than YUI or Mootools
  3. When developing an enterprise site host the jquery.js file locally, else consider using their CDN hosted file which I belive is "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" more info on this.
  4. ThemeRoller is badass and I will be checking into it further
  5. Builtwith.com is a great site to see what other sites are built on
  6. Performance: jQuery is faster at selecting #IDs then .classes

Links to the meetup:

Fine Google, You Win.

Submitted by Dano on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 21:30

In my many levels of DIY or my control freak-like nature, when it comes to my content, I tend to spend to much time trying to reinvent the wheel. Today while investing time looking at another todo list app, calendar app, and a news reader. I realize... just let Google win, stop wasting your time making something that already exist.

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