Archive for the 'Great People' Category

Addy Osmani

Building a brand for yourself is like a full time job. Here is one guy who has done a great job of it. By cartooning himself and pumping out great content relentlessly, @addyosmani has become a well-known name in the jQuery community. His Twitter profile blares, “jQuery Evangelist, jQuery Docs & Bug Triage team and [...]

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Elijah Manor

@elijahmanor on Twitter is always on topic, even though he is not 100% jQuery. His blog is usually great, as well, and I especially want to point out today’s entry about Mocking jQuery Ajax Calls, which is a great way to test jQuery code and plugins before putting them on your server.  Better tutorial. Elijah [...]

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Rebecca Murphey

Let’s start this look at great jQuery people to watch by featuring an exception to our rules. Rebecca Murphey is not a jQuery only person. Her stream of tweets is not 50%+ jQuery related. However, this is one person who has nailed the use of  jQuery as a tool for top flight web sites and [...]

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The Birds! Run Awaaaaay!

I used to like Twitter and I’d get a lot of great tips by watching my feed or searching on jQuery as a keyword. These days I get 9000 retweets of the same announcement, even when the link sucked the first time it was tweeted. Plus, the people who used to have a pretty professional [...]

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