Now we have tried this twice. The idea may be enticing, but we can all agree that I have nothing of interest to offer. Some time in the next few days this domain name will be shifting to a placeholder with Google ads and a little note that says that, for a paltry sum, you [...]
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Free jQuery Course, but Act Now
This offer is good today into tomorrow, so act right away. This is a jQuery Fundamentals five-hour video course. http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/OLT/Course/Toc.aspx?n=jquery-fundamentals
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You, like everyone else who is not way out on the bleeding edge, have held back from deploying jQuery 1.5 until at least the first bug-fix release. Looks like that is not far off because the first RC of 1.5.1 is posted and going to press very soon. Have you been testing with deferreds and [...]
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In jQuery 1.5 we are treated to a total rewrite of the AJAX guts, bringing speed increases and new ways to use the results. The big new toy is “deferreds”, finally allowing us to break out of the immediate callback space and use the info for later and multiple callbacks. Yeah, I know I’m not [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What is this new jQuery.sub?
Telling me that I can create a whole separate version of jQuery for customization sort of peaks my interest, but what does that really mean and how could I use it? Addy Osmani put together a quick video presentation on both the how and the why that helped me to understand where this is coming [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Time for 1.5
Whether we need it or not, here comes jQuery 1.5, right on schedule. I’ve always been suspicious of release schedules, seriously questioning whether software should be released because of the data on the calendar or the character of the content. Leaving off that argument for now, I have been looking at the content of this [...]
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